The journal and sometimes blog of author, Joseph L. Selby.
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Malcolm Castle/Richard Reynolds
I was watching an episode of Castle recently (in itself not surprising since it’s the only show on right now where I watch weekly [Psych being the other]) and I made a startling realization. Nathan Fillion is playing the same character he played in Firefly. I will not explain to you what Firefly is. You…
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Ooooo *shivers* Do it again!
I just had one of those moments. I love those moments. Back in the day, the reason I never finished anything was because I tried to plot things out. I might get a ways into it. I tried to get a feel for it and then write an outline, but I was convinced I couldn’t…
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Flashback
So there’s a lot of chatter on Twitter lately about blog designs and website builds and etc etc. If you have not been to my website, this is the minimum level of quality I expect for a user-created website. Blogger and like services are expanding their styles to blend the boundaries between blogs and websites,…
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New Things
The template for the blog has changed yet again. I liked that last one, but there were too many small things that needed fixing. Date wasn’t displaying properly. The manner in which comments were listed was dumb. User pics weren’t showing up like they were supposed to. I’ll be the first to admit that my…
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GOO! (Re: Firefly)
Firefly on Blu-Ray is currently $23 on Amazon. Serenity is $10. If you haven’t already updated your collection, fly like the wind!!!!
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Back to the Future!
So Blogger was reset to a previous back up. Anything you posted yesterday is most likely not there. Cool thing is, I actually scheduled yesterday’s post Wednesday night so it was still saved as a draft. I pushed it live again. It’s a pretty big deal Blogger going down like that. Some people really saw…
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Do Good Deeds
Perhaps the best benefit of a growing write-o-sphere on the tubes is that we can gather as a group for good causes. Charity auctions abound where you can donate to diabetes research, adopt a town in the storm ravaged south, or donate to the Red Cross general fund on behalf of the southern storms. And…
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Feline Masters
There are many reasons why I prefer cats over dogs. Many many reasons. Today’s reason is because their genius knows no limit. We have three cats, an old man and a brother and sister we adopted a year and a half ago. The young boy fancies himself the king of the jungle and regularly mauls…
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A Tree is Just a Tree
Way back when, I meant to pursue a career in the United States military. At first I thought the navy and then found my place with the army. I was in an ROTC program, but because I had not started from the beginning, I was required to go to Camp Challenge (or basic camp). It’s…
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Toof Fairy
Someone tell me if this has already been made into a horror movie. It sounds familiar. A friend suggested a story idea while we were goofing around, but it’s one that’s really stuck with me. The tooth fairy takes kids teeth because there’s a bit of youth stuck to the tooth that the fairy can…
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Bravado
The scenes I have the most trouble writing are men posturing. I blame fantasy for this. It is one of the most used scenes in classic fantasy when two alpha males begin barking at each other and bumping chests. It also reads like the stereotypical nerd living in his parents’ basement writing the hero he…
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A Self-(pub)-Study
Joseph Garrety spent the last month reading only self-published work. He blogged about his findings. I think this is a very good assessment and doesn’t show a bias one way or the other. (Though I expect I would be far less forgiving on the lack of quality. I am equally harsh with traditionally published works…