Whoo!

Grizelda is done! Recorded, sound-edited, compressed, and ID3-tagged. I'd go out and buy myself a beer if I was, you know, over 21.

Random observation

"I'm glad I switched to Vista" Google hits: 1 unique site.

Well, now there'll be two, but still.

Aha!

Evil Editor (he will not reveal his actual identity) runs a successful blog where readers can submit queries or the beginnings of their novels for him to rip into mercilessly. Usually this is to great comedic effect. Part of the running joke is that he's got this piece of clipart of a dude in muttonchops that he keeps recycling by Photoshopping it into all sorts of pictures.

Then I ran across this comic. Notice a similarity? Something must be going on here. Either Evil Editor has branched out into sausage purchasing, or David Maliki ! and the Editor must both be using the same clipart book.


P.S. No, that's not a typo.

Deep Space 9

It's an old show, yes, but I was only introduced to it the other day. Some sci-fi house friends have the show on DVD and they've been playing it on the house TV. Fascinating. First of all, it's got way better developed characters than the original Star Trek. But what prompted me to blog about it is the way they get the most bang out of their cheap-o special effects.

There's this episode where the shapeshifter, Odo, is at a loggerheads with Garak. Instead of actually fighting him, he starts describing all the things he might do to him. "Shall I reach out my arms and strangle you from across the room?" Instant vivid mental image, without actually having to spend any money on morphing Odo. Reminds me of a trick my English teacher pointed out in Macbeth. There's a scene with a couple of scouts standing on the top of a hill watching an epic battle. They describe it to each other, exclaiming just how awesome it is, though the audience doesn't actually see anything. It's a nice cop-out: it would have been kind of hard to stage an epic battle scene on the scale of, say, Pelennor Fields on a stage in 1600.

(Image from Wikipedia.)

Update on Grizelda

The chapter submission went through! The Podiobooks official person said all the technical specs for my audio files are good, so I'm good to go for uploading chapters to the site. So I'll just plug away at editing chapters (I'm on 18 of 28) and upload them all just before September 15.

Oh, and I've got a brand shiny new audio promo for Grizelda, which I can't show you guys because Blogger doesn't host audio files. Bummer.

Speaking of Octopus

This is all in Spanish, but it's pretty cool. Wait till the part where it's smooshing itself through a tube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8cf7tPoN5o

Octopus + News

Oh, dear. I just realized my notes to self are really cryptic.



crit stuff
Netflix, ride airport
crit stuff
last couple books



7:51 silence
pajamas

octopus + news

This was a to-do list, honest!

Barack Obama is for Sale

No joke. I saw this in a storefront window in downtown Northfield. You can't see it at this magnification, but the tag around his neck says $29.99. What a bargain!