Tuesday mornings are pretty slow here at "Revenge of the Living Blog". And that's why I'm posting.
I spoke to some other people, researched the data, and turns out that owning an Audrey Hepburn fleece blanket would be far too weird even for me. I should understand that she is no longer with us, and no amount of memorabilia will ever bring her soul back into existence.
Also fellow blog viewers (I do believe you know who you are), I have yet to find a typewriter packaged and addressed to me sitting on my doorstep. I thought that talking endlessly about it would somehow guilt trip someone into shipping me an old busted typewriter (it must still work though, or else I'm sending it back). Apparently my sly attempt at getting something free wasn't very sly at all and goes to show that none of you are loyal fans. Now go read a blog about mexican food or the Obama adminstration. I'm obviously not topical enough to peak your interest, or subconsciously manipulate you into buying things for me.
The new job is going very well, although I've noticed some rather strange things about the building, such as the doors of two of the four stalls in the men's bathroom on the sixth floor remain perpetually closed (clearly transportation units to the Ministry of Magic) and a few times while riding the elevator, the elevator doors will open on a floor between the sixth and the first and no one is there to board the elevator. Yesterday the doors opened on the fifth floor. There were only a few lights and a very dark hallway straight ahead. Oh, and some sort of large blue recylcing bin. But there was absolutely no people. So the doors stood open for a very long time, then slowly shut, and I continued my journey down to the ground floor. What I'm hitting at here is that, the building is clearly haunted (and a medium for Wizards and Witches to travel).
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Sorry, I completely zoned out there and watched four youtube videos. It's like college all over again.
That's all I have today. Please, feel free to send questions, comments, and concerns (and typewriters) to canyon.behind.her@gmail.com. I might get to them (Unless it's the typewriter. I'll immediately get to that. But you'll need to ask for my address first).
Have a good Tuesday.
Showing posts with label Harry Potter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Harry Potter. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Summa Time
Well, I'm back from an incredibly busy summer. Busy, busy, busy. Nothing but things to do, people to see, and universes to save. I'm wiped out.
All right. That first part was a lie. I've done (for the most part) nothing. Things I've done this summer:
1.) Finished the Harry Potter books
2.) Worked
3.) Started a bit of an internship at a Christian publishing office (unpaid)
4.) Saw Incubus live (finally)
5.) Went on a float trip down the drunken river of destruction (Yes, that is an exaggeration. But did you know that there are more drunk people in southern Missouri than sober people? It's insane.)
That's about it for the high points. Pretty slow summer (first in awhile). Now the weather is finally beginning to settle down so that autum can be given a proper welcome. We do welcome you autum. You're very beautiful and we wish nothing for the best while you're here, but I can't help but think about winter slowly walking behind you, brining the cold and plans to wipe out what beauty you've dressed the world with. These days are in fact getting shorter as well. Too soon, I say. 2011, you've hardly had time to really sit and speak. You've been pacing the room, looking at your watch, and kicking back drinks, anticipating only to leave us. You were rather quiet. I hope only to make small talk before it's time for you to leave. Create a couple memories. Take a photograph. Post it on Facebook. If you'll only grant us that much.
Just to keep my loyal fans in the know, I've been thinking of making another blog. One with a bit more "focus". This is just a scatterbrained mess that I keep around to help prevent writer atrophy (has it helped?). I've thought about a blog of mini-stories (shorter than short stories) or a blog based around tea, or some other thing I'm obsessed with (Time Travel, Audrey Hepburn, etc. etc.). So if there is ever a day when this blog "vanishes" or mutates into some altogether different, you'll know the reason. But until I buckle down and decide what to do, you can read this to your leisure. And I'll continue to write throw away material every couple of months.
Recently I've been considering buying a typewriter. My mom used to have one that I used in my amatuer writing days. Ah, fine days those were. I started out as a horror writer. You know, Steven King stuff. I was only about 9 at the time, but I wrote some really creepy stuff. Short, disturbing stories with titles like, "The Poltergeist" and "The Gremlins". Then about seventh grade I moved to sci-fi. I began a novel called "Sight From the Eagle's Eye". Wrote it at night during the summer of 2000 by hand on sheets of notebook paper. I got to about chapter four and then quit. It's lost foever now.
Tangent.
Anyway, my point being, I want a typewriter and I want it to be rather small. Travel sized if possible. Something Kerouac or Ginsberg would have toted around. So, just donate to my typewriter fund, or send me the old typewriter and I'll get started on my sci-fi time travel epic, "The Universe Is Ordinary". You'll get an advanced copy for your troubles, and by advanced copy I mean that you'll recieve a copy of the original manuscript when it reaches completion. Also, I'll sign it. And you can also come with me on my five city midwest tour, and if you're really qualified and trustworthy, you can be my agent. Yes, the agent to "Mike Lee the Extraordinary". Think about it. We'll grab lunch, hang out. Become best friends.
That's all. Nothing more. It's 2:22pm CST. I'm still in my pajama-jams, listening to that song from The Matrix when Morpheus and Neo are walking down the street during the agent training program. Life is considerably simple and boring (Which is why I need you to invest in me and become my trusted agent). And to answer your question: Harper Collins is a fine for publishing my book. I'm okay with that.
Hope everyone had a great summer, a fantastic labor day. Enjoy your week (call me).
All right. That first part was a lie. I've done (for the most part) nothing. Things I've done this summer:
1.) Finished the Harry Potter books
2.) Worked
3.) Started a bit of an internship at a Christian publishing office (unpaid)
4.) Saw Incubus live (finally)
5.) Went on a float trip down the drunken river of destruction (Yes, that is an exaggeration. But did you know that there are more drunk people in southern Missouri than sober people? It's insane.)
That's about it for the high points. Pretty slow summer (first in awhile). Now the weather is finally beginning to settle down so that autum can be given a proper welcome. We do welcome you autum. You're very beautiful and we wish nothing for the best while you're here, but I can't help but think about winter slowly walking behind you, brining the cold and plans to wipe out what beauty you've dressed the world with. These days are in fact getting shorter as well. Too soon, I say. 2011, you've hardly had time to really sit and speak. You've been pacing the room, looking at your watch, and kicking back drinks, anticipating only to leave us. You were rather quiet. I hope only to make small talk before it's time for you to leave. Create a couple memories. Take a photograph. Post it on Facebook. If you'll only grant us that much.
Just to keep my loyal fans in the know, I've been thinking of making another blog. One with a bit more "focus". This is just a scatterbrained mess that I keep around to help prevent writer atrophy (has it helped?). I've thought about a blog of mini-stories (shorter than short stories) or a blog based around tea, or some other thing I'm obsessed with (Time Travel, Audrey Hepburn, etc. etc.). So if there is ever a day when this blog "vanishes" or mutates into some altogether different, you'll know the reason. But until I buckle down and decide what to do, you can read this to your leisure. And I'll continue to write throw away material every couple of months.
Recently I've been considering buying a typewriter. My mom used to have one that I used in my amatuer writing days. Ah, fine days those were. I started out as a horror writer. You know, Steven King stuff. I was only about 9 at the time, but I wrote some really creepy stuff. Short, disturbing stories with titles like, "The Poltergeist" and "The Gremlins". Then about seventh grade I moved to sci-fi. I began a novel called "Sight From the Eagle's Eye". Wrote it at night during the summer of 2000 by hand on sheets of notebook paper. I got to about chapter four and then quit. It's lost foever now.
Tangent.
Anyway, my point being, I want a typewriter and I want it to be rather small. Travel sized if possible. Something Kerouac or Ginsberg would have toted around. So, just donate to my typewriter fund, or send me the old typewriter and I'll get started on my sci-fi time travel epic, "The Universe Is Ordinary". You'll get an advanced copy for your troubles, and by advanced copy I mean that you'll recieve a copy of the original manuscript when it reaches completion. Also, I'll sign it. And you can also come with me on my five city midwest tour, and if you're really qualified and trustworthy, you can be my agent. Yes, the agent to "Mike Lee the Extraordinary". Think about it. We'll grab lunch, hang out. Become best friends.
That's all. Nothing more. It's 2:22pm CST. I'm still in my pajama-jams, listening to that song from The Matrix when Morpheus and Neo are walking down the street during the agent training program. Life is considerably simple and boring (Which is why I need you to invest in me and become my trusted agent). And to answer your question: Harper Collins is a fine for publishing my book. I'm okay with that.
Hope everyone had a great summer, a fantastic labor day. Enjoy your week (call me).
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Anachronism.
I've recently discovered I have a psychological issue. Self diagnosed, yes, but I'm pretty certain on it. The issue I have is living in the correct time period with everyone else. Allow me to explain...
For about 10 years now I've had the first four Harry Potter books. I read the first one when I was thirteen, then never touched the others and moved on with my life. And it was a pretty good life without them. Under my personal opinion, I functioned well with normal society without being well versed in the world of Harry Potter. Given, I encountered MANY individuals who gave their lives to this Potter fellow, buying the books the day of their release and reading them non-stop in one day. Then the movies came out, and that only made things worse (For their addiction, not for me). I didn't quite follow all these people to Hogwarts each year, with great expectation for the next installment. Instead, my copies of Chamber of Secrets, Prisoner of Azkaban, and Goblet of Fire sat on the bookshelf collecting dust.
Until about three months ago.
I finally cracked. Part one of The Deathly Hollows came out last November, and my friend Vanessa invited me to see it opening night. Now, I had seen the film adaptations of Order of the Phoenix and Half-blood Prince prior, but this time it finally dawned on me: "Perhaps, these last ten years, I've been missing something. I feel out of the loop and now I want to be in it."
So, at the start of December I started my journey to Hogwarts, beginning with The Sorcerer's Stone. I'm about a third of the way through Goblet of Fire at this point. Still hooked and plan to finish the rest of the series just to say I did before that last movie comes out.
Now, my point being, I should have read these things a long time ago. I'm 24 years old, it's 2011. I'm not with the program. I'm still in the 2000's. And worst of all, I suddenly have no one to talk to them about. These people who were super excited and obsessed about these books have moved on with their lives. It's about the Obama Administration, the economy, healthcare, the politcal upheaval in North Africa, Twilight, Justin Beiber, Lady Gaga in an egg.
Well...after I finish these books, in a couple years, I'll start watching Lost. And I'll get really excited and want to talk about it. But no one will listen. They'll tell me things like, "Mike, that was like 10 years ago. You missed it, get over it". Or I'll buy a Lady Gaga album in 2020 and talk about how good it is and people will say, "Mike, Lady Gaga built a spaceship and drove it into the sun. The gaga for Gaga phase is over."
Who Am I? What have I become?
For about 10 years now I've had the first four Harry Potter books. I read the first one when I was thirteen, then never touched the others and moved on with my life. And it was a pretty good life without them. Under my personal opinion, I functioned well with normal society without being well versed in the world of Harry Potter. Given, I encountered MANY individuals who gave their lives to this Potter fellow, buying the books the day of their release and reading them non-stop in one day. Then the movies came out, and that only made things worse (For their addiction, not for me). I didn't quite follow all these people to Hogwarts each year, with great expectation for the next installment. Instead, my copies of Chamber of Secrets, Prisoner of Azkaban, and Goblet of Fire sat on the bookshelf collecting dust.
Until about three months ago.
I finally cracked. Part one of The Deathly Hollows came out last November, and my friend Vanessa invited me to see it opening night. Now, I had seen the film adaptations of Order of the Phoenix and Half-blood Prince prior, but this time it finally dawned on me: "Perhaps, these last ten years, I've been missing something. I feel out of the loop and now I want to be in it."
So, at the start of December I started my journey to Hogwarts, beginning with The Sorcerer's Stone. I'm about a third of the way through Goblet of Fire at this point. Still hooked and plan to finish the rest of the series just to say I did before that last movie comes out.
Now, my point being, I should have read these things a long time ago. I'm 24 years old, it's 2011. I'm not with the program. I'm still in the 2000's. And worst of all, I suddenly have no one to talk to them about. These people who were super excited and obsessed about these books have moved on with their lives. It's about the Obama Administration, the economy, healthcare, the politcal upheaval in North Africa, Twilight, Justin Beiber, Lady Gaga in an egg.
Well...after I finish these books, in a couple years, I'll start watching Lost. And I'll get really excited and want to talk about it. But no one will listen. They'll tell me things like, "Mike, that was like 10 years ago. You missed it, get over it". Or I'll buy a Lady Gaga album in 2020 and talk about how good it is and people will say, "Mike, Lady Gaga built a spaceship and drove it into the sun. The gaga for Gaga phase is over."
Who Am I? What have I become?
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