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Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012
2:56 pm	Writer's Block: Million Dollar Smile What is the most amount of money the tooth fairy has given you for a tooth? View 341 Answers A hundred thousand dollars. Oh wait. I thought the question was, "How much did they pay Dwayne Johnson to act in the movie Tooth Fairy". (Comment on this)
2:55 pm	Writer's Block: Star Trek If you could visit anywhere in the solar system, where would it be? View 458 Answers The other side of the black hole in the center of our solar system, as long as it isn't hell. Either that, or I'd like to be on a rock near the Voyager to see where it got to. (Comment on this)
2:07 pm	Novel Proofreading 98% Done Now edited down to page 190. It now has a page length of 199 pages! That's incredible! Soon I will be done, and sharing copies at work, probably to my utter embarrassment. http://mogwai_toejam.tripod.com/Earthstars1.html (Comment on this)
Thursday, May 17th, 2012
12:18 am	Gardenia #172 And Furnation is back up and running again! "Doctor Siles" http://www.furnation.com/akktri/Gardenia550.html http://www.furnation.com/akktri/Gardenia551.html http://www.furnation.com/akktri/Gardenia552.html http://www.furnation.com/akktri/Gardenia553.html http://www.furnation.com/akktri/Gardenia554.html http://www.furnation.com/akktri/Gardenia555.html Archives: http://www.furnation.com/akktri/Archive.html Current comic: http://www.furnation.com/akktri/Current.html (Comment on this)
Sunday, May 13th, 2012
11:07 pm	Depression Every Sunday evening, I fall into a pit of despair. Sad, unmotivated, feeling abandoned or unwanted by everyone, including God. Obsessed with pain from long in my past. Contemplation of suicide. It doesn't have to do with anything happening to me that day, except the fact I took one less Lithium pill than the night before. The next day comes, and I'm fine. It's like an underpass on a freeway. All I can do is force myself into a busy activity and wait for it to go. This is how it is with manic depression. It's not me, it's a thing that takes over my mind, and turns my thoughts inward on the things of sadness. A thing that makes the world seem smaller, more me focused. Focused on the inadequacy, the injustice, the failure. But it is a thing to be endured, something to wait through, like a line at the license bureau. It passes, and then you get on with your life. People recommend books in support groups, but the ones they recommended to me spend too much time on the person's life story, which isn't the same as advice on how to get over it. (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, May 11th, 2012
10:28 pm	Novel Proofreading 95% Done Now edited down to page 180. The conclusion of the novel is within sight! http://mogwai_toejam.tripod.com/Earthstars1.html (Comment on this)
Thursday, May 10th, 2012
10:38 pm	Gardenia #171 Furnation again betrayed me. Cannot update from FTP, so I'm using Ottercomics. Big link dump below the cut. Note: Pages 491-504 do not exist on the server, skip to 505, please. http://ottercomics.taur.net/qax/gardenia/Gardenia505.html http://ottercomics.taur.net/qax/gardenia/Gardenia506.html http://ottercomics.taur.net/qax/gardenia/Gardenia507.html http://ottercomics.taur.net/qax/gardenia/Gardenia508.html More below cut: ( Read more... ) (Comment on this)
Thursday, April 26th, 2012
11:08 pm	Novel Proofreading 90% Done Now edited down to page 170, reduced to 200 page length, 991 KB file. Progress! http://mogwai_toejam.tripod.com/Earthstars1.html (Comment on this)
Wednesday, April 25th, 2012
9:55 pm	Review of La Fontaine's First Fable by Alexandre Dumas I can sum this one up in a sentence. A feudal lord famous for amassing debt wins a bet that he could pay the money back by writing. (Comment on this)
9:54 pm	Review of Barabec by Voltaire This is a story about a Hindu who derived his reputation from driving nails and such into his body. A guy tells him that self mutilation isn't necessary for being a good Hindu, he tries giving it up for awhile, but then goes back to it at the end of the story, because he's prideful. I guess it would be witty and enjoyable if I believed in that religion. (Comment on this)
9:54 pm	Review of The Scarlet Sphynx by Alexandre Dumas I don't get this "story". It seems to be nothing but a prose portrait of a bishop/political figure. Pretty forgettable. (Comment on this)
5:15 pm	This is me being stupid (Comment on this)
5:12 pm	Gardenia #170 "Majorly Invasive Surgery" http://www.furnation.com/akktri/Gardenia546.html http://www.furnation.com/akktri/Gardenia547.html http://www.furnation.com/akktri/Gardenia548.html http://www.furnation.com/akktri/Gardenia549.html Archives: http://www.furnation.com/akktri/Archive.html Current comic: http://www.furnation.com/akktri/Current.html (Comment on this)
Monday, April 16th, 2012
10:49 pm	The S****y Legend of Zelda (Comment on this)
Friday, April 13th, 2012
8:32 pm	Man With the Golden Brain by Alphonse Daudet This is totally bizarre and worth keeping the collection for. The guy apparently has golden brain matter, which he uses to buy things. He squanders, he spends, he falls in love, he spends on her, they break up, and then he spends the last of his brain matter at a shop in sort of a suicide. Weird. (Comment on this)
8:31 pm	Review of The Venus of Braniza by Guy De Maupassant "Wives of the Jewish philosophers are, as a rule, ugly or possess some bodily defect." I found this hilarious. The story is well written, and another reason why I wanted to keep the collection. The guy's wife is uncharacteristically beautiful, and she asks him a question about the conditions in which the Messiah would arrive. The guy says the Messiah would come when unrighteousness was prevalent on the earth, so then we read about her having an affair. "I'm just doing my part!" Classic. (Comment on this)
8:31 pm	Review of The Courageous Hunchback Woman by Honore De Balzac A woman witnesses a murder, feigns ignorance, and escapes the killers, then goes home, pretending nothing ever happened. But then the ghost haunts her, and she tells the sheriff. The style is like the Teeny Tiny Woman ("Give me my bone!"), sort of a comedic and weird little horror story. (Comment on this)
Thursday, April 12th, 2012
11:07 pm	Earth and All Starships (80% finished proofreading) I'm now at page 160, and I did some drastic cuts so that it's only a 992 KB file. I haven't previewed it in the browser, but I think it's got to be down to at least 200 pages or less. http://mogwai_toejam.tripod.com/Earthstars1.html (Comment on this)
Monday, April 9th, 2012
11:50 am	Gardenia #169 "The Timewarp...Again." http://www.furnation.com/akktri/Gardenia544.html http://www.furnation.com/akktri/Gardenia545.html Archives: http://www.furnation.com/akktri/Archive.html Current comic: http://www.furnation.com/akktri/Current.html (Comment on this)
Friday, April 6th, 2012
10:08 pm	Writer's Block: A Bright Idea What do you want to invent? View 413 Answers *Precooked hamburger in the quantities necessary for spaghetti, chili and hamburger helper. *A water dish for dogs that works like a regular water faucet so you don't have to keep refilling it. (Comment on this)