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The server group blocked blogger at work. I guess they didn't want me to post to my blogs. This affects CthreePO.com, JT30.com HarpAmps.com and BlogsEyeView.com (if I ever get back to it). My anonymous blog is on a WordPress site so that still works.
I have a bunch of stuff to write about so I am collecting my thoughts using Docs.Google.Com (an excellent writers resource).
First, this is the perfect Christmas gift for your friends who are religious but can't quite keep those commandments: http://www.reserveaspotinheaven.com/ . I wanted to create a site ReserveASeatInHell.com, but the good domains were already taken. I can think of quite a few people that deserve a nice seat reserved in hell.
Second, My PaperTheTown.com site is suddenly getting thousands of hits. It has benefited from the recent Google Page Rank recalc and is now better off than some of my other sites. It has been making a dollar or two a day. It used to make only a few cents a day if at all.
I received a reject on one of my stories where the editor took the time to severely criticize the sentence structure. I may never write again.
Here is a great image of the moon that you can use as wallpaper on your machine.
Download it to your windows\media directory and then right click your desktop to select properties. Flip the desktop tab and browse to the image you just downloaded. pick Stretch so it fits on your screen and apply it.
The Zine where I sold one of my first stories ATSOISE, is a dead market. I am trying to get the archives from them so I can keep it rolling. I like the look and feel. It has a kind of Goth subculture feel to it and specializes in Gothic Horror so I have not contributed much there. I could get an editor to read the slush and I would manage the site. I want to do this because I would feel bad if the site just died.
I am very angry at an article by an idiot at the LA Times about Heinlein. Robert A. Heinlein is my hero and I resent it when people who have not read more than a book or two of his have bad things to say about him.
Robert Heinlein's future may be past
The article says that Dick and William S. Burroughs have more influence on SpecFic than Heinlein. Dick was nuts and his writing is mostly spotty with wonderful heights of insight and genius and long lows of hack writing. Anyone who has read Dick would know this. Burroughs can't be read without the urge to vomit. I challenge anyone to finish Naked Lunch without the need for frequent trips to the bathroom.
People who have read only Starship Troopers are afraid of Heinlein. I would say that he glorifies the individual and often the individual is a man, so that many women and some men feel threatened by his writings. If you read all of his work you realize just how liberal he was. He promoted women's rights at a time when women were expected to stay at home. He had Black, Jewish, Gay and Hispanic heroes at a time when all characters were Aryans. He wanted to redistribute wealth in an almost communistic revolutionary way. He spoke out against organized religions.
Scott Timberg, who wrote the article seems to think that Heinlein's movies count. Heinlein, while he was alive, refused to let any of his stories be turned into movies. The one experience he had in the early 1950s was enough.
The author writes that Heinlein was an "assertive right-winger, a libertarian nudist with a military-hardware fetish". This proves that he has never read Heinlein and is writing his article based on the movie version of "Starship Troopers", which was nothing at all like the book. I will admit that he was a nudist. His Lunar cry of freedom Tanstaafl has a Libertarian feel, but he was no right winger and the most military based book that he wrote was Starship Troopers, which was a catalog of the horrors of war.
BAH! I have to go gargle to get the taste of this out of my mouth.
There is a link between Google docs and blogger. I'm going to try to publish this. Wish me luck.
I have a bunch of stuff to write about so I am collecting my thoughts using Docs.Google.Com (an excellent writers resource).
First, this is the perfect Christmas gift for your friends who are religious but can't quite keep those commandments: http://www.reserveaspotinheave
Second, My PaperTheTown.com site is suddenly getting thousands of hits. It has benefited from the recent Google Page Rank recalc and is now better off than some of my other sites. It has been making a dollar or two a day. It used to make only a few cents a day if at all.
I received a reject on one of my stories where the editor took the time to severely criticize the sentence structure. I may never write again.
Here is a great image of the moon that you can use as wallpaper on your machine.
Download it to your windows\media directory and then right click your desktop to select properties. Flip the desktop tab and browse to the image you just downloaded. pick Stretch so it fits on your screen and apply it.
The Zine where I sold one of my first stories ATSOISE, is a dead market. I am trying to get the archives from them so I can keep it rolling. I like the look and feel. It has a kind of Goth subculture feel to it and specializes in Gothic Horror so I have not contributed much there. I could get an editor to read the slush and I would manage the site. I want to do this because I would feel bad if the site just died.
I am very angry at an article by an idiot at the LA Times about Heinlein. Robert A. Heinlein is my hero and I resent it when people who have not read more than a book or two of his have bad things to say about him.
Robert Heinlein's future may be past
The article says that Dick and William S. Burroughs have more influence on SpecFic than Heinlein. Dick was nuts and his writing is mostly spotty with wonderful heights of insight and genius and long lows of hack writing. Anyone who has read Dick would know this. Burroughs can't be read without the urge to vomit. I challenge anyone to finish Naked Lunch without the need for frequent trips to the bathroom.
People who have read only Starship Troopers are afraid of Heinlein. I would say that he glorifies the individual and often the individual is a man, so that many women and some men feel threatened by his writings. If you read all of his work you realize just how liberal he was. He promoted women's rights at a time when women were expected to stay at home. He had Black, Jewish, Gay and Hispanic heroes at a time when all characters were Aryans. He wanted to redistribute wealth in an almost communistic revolutionary way. He spoke out against organized religions.
Scott Timberg, who wrote the article seems to think that Heinlein's movies count. Heinlein, while he was alive, refused to let any of his stories be turned into movies. The one experience he had in the early 1950s was enough.
The author writes that Heinlein was an "assertive right-winger, a libertarian nudist with a military-hardware fetish". This proves that he has never read Heinlein and is writing his article based on the movie version of "Starship Troopers", which was nothing at all like the book. I will admit that he was a nudist. His Lunar cry of freedom Tanstaafl has a Libertarian feel, but he was no right winger and the most military based book that he wrote was Starship Troopers, which was a catalog of the horrors of war.
BAH! I have to go gargle to get the taste of this out of my mouth.
There is a link between Google docs and blogger. I'm going to try to publish this. Wish me luck.
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