I hold to Wally’s words, but they trouble me. I write for myself, so the book has an audience. I’d like my novels to have more than an audience of one.
Know what I mean?
Wally Said
Floofgent
Floofgent (catfinition) – a cat with an expressive and especially plaintive quality.
In use: “We were awakened by beast requesting with a floofgent meow that they be fed now.”
Six Rules for Getting Along with Your Computer
- Remember that you wanted your computer. It didn’t want you.
- Shouting at your computer won’t make it do anything faster or better, but it might save you from insanity and keep you from taking more drastic action against your computer.
- Shaking a computer until parts come off tends to be counter-productive.
- A hammer to the computer might make you feel better, but the computer will probably complain.
- A computer connected to the web can probably find more curse words than you can find on your own. Use that to your advantage when cursing your computer.
- Remember that words have power. If you curse your computer, it might be taken seriously.
Trick Question
You ever read something that you wrote and think, “Wow, this is terrible,” and then read something else you wrote, and are astonished to discover that you wrote because it seems so amazing?
Yeah, trick question, isn’t it?
Tuesday’s Theme Music
So much is written about money, right? About needing it, hating it, not having it, and wanting it. It’s the root of all evil, yet churches are on net, television, and radio, begging for it. It’s not the money, though, right? As Marie (Bernadette Peters) said in The Jerk, “I don’t care about losing the money. It’s losing all the stuff.”
Today’s song is one of my all-time favorites. Why? I like the clashing drums, screaming guitars, and scathing lyrics. “Money. Get back. Keep your hands off my stack.”
Here’s Pink Floyd with “Money” from waaayyy back when I was young.
Michael Seidel, writer 