July 2010
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Perfume
The toilet seat was down…
There should be no reason for the toilet seat to be down; he certainly hadn’t put it down. He lived alone and, when you live alone you can leave the toilet seat in whatever position you see fit. There was a time when the seat was always down (unless he forgot - an act the invited extreme overreaction,) but those days had long since passed.
But the toilet seat was...
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The Birthday Post - Welcome to 3.0
It is currently 1:30am here in middle America. It will be significantly later by the time I finish this post, and later still by the time you actually read it, but right now its 1:30am on July 13th, 2010; my 29th birthday.
When I decided to start blogging again I wanted to avoid posts that delved into my personal life. To most, my life is as uninteresting as the guy they sit next to on the bus,...
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The Horror of Horror
This is a topic near and dear to my heart. Horror has ever been, and will continue to be, my favorite member of the genre pantheon, and I’m tired of seeing its definition and flavor watered down and applied to everything. Let me help you see the truth.
It seems to me that horror has been distilled to mean anything scary, from aliens to ax-murderers. This is incorrect. “Scary” is...
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The Line Between Fan and Fiction
I don’t know if you have seen this or not, but Blizzard is running a creative writing contest. The long and short of it is that you submit a story based on one of their universes, they read it, and if they like it YOU WIN. What you win is largely unimportant (to me anyway) but the opportunity to flex the creative muscle muscle is always appealing to me.
There are, of course, problems with...