Never one to follow a trend this is a good one.
As I was only two when this was recorded you can’t blame me for the shitty styles they wore back then.
Entertainment
Bobby Pickett Dies
Who is Bobby Pickett you ask? None other than the guy who sang the “Monster Mash” back in 1962 and kept on singing it on the way to the bank every Halloween since. Rest in Peace dude.
Cheddarvision
Damn. You people will watch anything as long as it’s on a TV.
Jessica Alba
I just set up the extended entry script on here and needed a reason to test it out. What a cheap thrill.
Mac Poker Online
I got an email about the site a little while ago and have been checking the site out for the last little while. Although I don’t use a Mac currently I have several friends that do and my brother does also. This may or may not be of interest to them.
Basically Mac Poker Online is a news site/blog that provides information about online casino games for Macintosh users. There are links to several available sites, saving you a bit of time searching for a site that you can use. Not even remotely poker related, I did find a cartoon of Bill Gates Vs. Steve Jobs that I haven’t seen before that made me laugh for a few minutes.
There are several different areas of the site, including one that goes into the rules of Poker. While I have played extensively, this is a must read for folks that haven’t but are interested in playing whether on or offline. Some of the links that I looked at were Pacific Poker which is currently a featured room, as well as Poker Stars.
Overall the site was pretty cool. The design is green, reminiscent of a card table and there aren’t an over-abundance of advertisements which is always nice. There is quite a bit of “industry” related news, and while I am not big into card playing, they are well written and I found myself reading through them pretty thoroughly.
There is also an option to get the newsletter emailed to you as well, which is always a nice feature. Just make sure to list the domain on your non-spam list in your email client or it might get caught there.
One thing that I was not aware of (I told you I didn’t do a lot of online gambling) is that you cannot use your paypal account to play with, and most sites actually ban US players because of our laws. There is at least one site over there that does though, so if I were to ever start playing at least I know now where to get my information.
This post has been sponsored by Mac Poker Online.
Another Book Meme
Valkyrie Angel brought this meme up in the comments to one of my other posts, I guess she is participating right now and is trying to get readers to participate at well, so I am recycling this post from March of this year since I am too lazy and it was so recent that nothing has changed.
Another book meme thanks to Jenn at Everyday Randomness. This one is even bigger than the sci-fi meme I did recently.
Look at the list of (100) books below.
Bold the ones you’ve read.
Italicize the ones you want to read.
leave blank the ones that you aren’t interested in.
Movies don’t count.
1. The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown)
2. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
3. To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
4. Gone With The Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
5. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (Tolkien)
6. The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (Tolkien)
7. The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers (Tolkien)
8. Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery)
9. Outlander (Diana Gabaldon)
10. A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry)
11. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Rowling)
12. Angels and Demons (Dan Brown)
13. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Rowling)
14. A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving)
15. Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
16. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Rowling)
17. Fall on Your Knees(Ann-Marie MacDonald)
18. The Stand (Stephen King)
19. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Rowling)
20. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
21. The Hobbit (Tolkien)
22. The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
23. Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
24. The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold)
25 . Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
26. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
27. Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
28. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (C. S. Lewis)
29. East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
30. Tuesdays with Morrie (Mitch Albom)
31. Dune (Frank Herbert)
32. The Notebook (Nicholas Sparks)
33. Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
34. 1984 (Orwell)
35. The Mists of Avalon (Marion Zimmer Bradley)
36. The Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett)
37. The Power of One (Bryce Courtenay)
38. I Know This Much is True (Wally Lamb)
39. The Red Tent (Anita Diamant)
40. The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
41. The Clan of the Cave Bear (Jean M. Auel)
42. The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
43. Confessions of a Shopaholic (Sophie Kinsella)
44. The Five People You Meet In Heaven (Mitch Albom)
45. Bible
46. Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)
47. The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
48. Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt)
49. The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
50. She’s Come Undone (Wally Lamb)
51. The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)
52. A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens)
53. Ender’s Game (Orson Scott Card)
54. Great Expectations (Dickens)
55. The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)
56. The Stone Angel (Margaret Laurence)
57. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Rowling)
58. The Thorn Birds (Colleen McCullough)
59. The Handmaid’s Tale (Margaret Atwood)
60. The Time Traveller’s Wife (Audrey Niffenegger)
61. Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
62. The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)
63. War and Peace (Tolstoy)
64. Interview With The Vampire (Anne Rice)
65. Fifth Business (Robertson Davis)
66. One Hundred Years Of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
67. The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants (Ann Brashares)
68. Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
69. Les Miserables (Hugo)
70. The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
71. Bridget Jones’ Diary (Fielding)
72. Love in the Time of Cholera (Marquez)
73. Shogun (James Clavell)
74. The English Patient (Michael Ondaatje)
75. The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett)
76. The Summer Tree (Guy Gavriel Kay)
77. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith)
78. The World According To Garp (John Irving)
79. The Diviners (Margaret Laurence)
80. Charlotte’s Web (E.B. White)
81. Not Wanted On The Voyage (Timothy Findley)
82. Of Mice And Men (Steinbeck)
83. Rebecca (Daphne DuMaurier)
84. Wizard’s First Rule (Terry Goodkind)
85. Emma (Jane Austen)
86. Watership Down (Richard Adams)
87. Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
88. The Stone Diaries (Carol Shields)
89. Blindness (Jose Saramago)
90. Kane and Abel (Jeffrey Archer)
91. In The Skin Of A Lion (Ondaatje)
92. Lord of the Flies (Golding)
93. The Good Earth (Pearl S. Buck)
94. The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd)
95. The Bourne Identity (Robert Ludlum)
96. The Outsiders (S.E. Hinton)
97. White Oleander (Janet Fitch)
98. A Woman of Substance (Barbara Taylor Bradford)
99. The Celestine Prophecy (James Redfield)
100. Ulysses (James Joyce)
I’m not going to italicize any of them because I am not adverse to reading just about anything that might cross my lap. Personally I think that the bible should not be in the list, but to each his own. I have read several different versions of it, so I did bold it.
Help Save Internet Radio
I saw some news reports on this and have already signed a petition as well as sent letters to my congressmen but I received this email today and felt like it was important enough to post. Even if you don’t listen to Internet radio, this is an important issue and you should head on over and do what you can. Thanks
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Very Cool
One of my older posts that I had submitted over at Indie Bloggers, “Growing up With the Boob Tube” was approved over at Indie Bloggers. They must really be running dry to have my crap up. 😉
Actually it was one of those posts that I really thought was well done and well thought out. 99% of what I post is whatever crap happens to be flying through my head at that particular point during the day, but some of them I really make an attempt to entertain, inform, or at least make your head explode from the insanity of what I might be thinking about.
There are some pretty good writers that post over at Indie bloggers, so go check it out if you get the chance. I may start submitting some more cross-posted stuff if I have the time. It had been so long since I had anything approved I was starting to get a complex.
Lola With Ebola
Back when I was nine or ten (before I knew any better) I used to like Barry Manilow. OK, so the secret’s out now. I have just become a social pariah among my peers. Anyway, the shadowscope mom used to love Barry Manilow, so I got to listen to quite a bit of it and I liked him. I think at that point in my life he reminded me of Gene Wilder, who I loved as a comedian. I don’t know why. I just did.
Mr Fabulous has a stunning re-write of Copacabana over at his site. In order to get the full hilarious effect of the song though, make sure that you listen to the audio portion at the end of the post. Oh, and go vote for him as funniest blogger at the Blogger’s Choice awards (it’s linked in the post).
Wanna Be a Character in a Book?
I don’t know if he has posted this on his site yet or not but I assume so. Just got this email over at MySpace from Charles…
Did you ever want to be the villain in a suspense novel? A tank crewman charging into battle? A Senator or Representative? Now’s your chance. Sort of.
In about 30 days I’ll finalizing the copy for my new novel Republic, scheduled for publication in August 2007.
Here’s a short blurb:
Welcome to the America of the future: an intrusive federal government; economy going down the tubes; and terrorism, domestic and foreign, wracking our nation. In 2016 America has become a place of fear and suspicion. Terrorism and government crackdowns have brought on a cycle of spiraling inflation and unemployment. Basic civil liberties are at risk in a country changed, yet frighteningly familiar.
A prominent citizen and commander in the West Virginia National Guard, Ken Murphy, must protect his family and his country, and identify where his loyalties lay in an increasingly dangerous conflict.
In short, it’s a big book about an American civil war.
Post a review of either the podcast or book of Prayer at Rumayla: A Novel of the Gulf War by May 10 and one of the characters in the book will get your name, and I’ll mention your blog or website in the acknowledgments. Yeah, I know, it’s a stupid gimmick. But maybe fun.
Here’s the quick Q & A and rules:
1) Do I get a free copy of the book?
How cheap can you be? You can download it free here, and listen here, but I encourage you to buy a copy. Writers have to make a living too.
2) Can I sue you if you make my character ugly or a villain or the wrong sexual orientation?
Yeah, right. Try, but I’m what they call judgment-proof (broke)
3) What if I want to be the main character?
You’d better have a pretty cool name. I’m not having any National Guard Colonels named Wilbur. No offense to the Wilbur’s of the world.
4) How do I let you know when the review is posted?
Post a comment here
5) How can you earn my undying gratitude?
Post a cool comment on your blog or somewhere telling other people about this excellent, very cool idea. Send traffic here.
Sounds Like a pretty cool deal. Go check it out.