Hacked for the millionth time
Twice a year or so I get a message from my web host saying that WordPress has been hacked again. It happened yesterday. Again. That’s what I’m dealing with right now. Thanks for looking at my site....
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I’m abandoning my coffee table book “Stupid Birds of North America”
I was helping my brother-in-law move furniture. It was a long few days because of a death in the family. Trying to lighten the mood, I started riffing on how much I hate birds, most of all the Canada...
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Yes You Can Be Like Me, A Competitive Professional Zip Liner
I would say the best thing about being on the cutting-edge of a developing sport is that a lot of the stuff I’m coming up with now will have whatever name I give it forever. You know, like Tony Hawk...
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15 Names for Science Fiction/Fantasy Characters
Feel free to use these in your work if you like. You don’t have to credit me if you do, but I’d love to hear about it. Also, I want a walk-on role in your TV/movie adaptation. Tarn Bwango Debbil Flot...
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How to Make A Decent Author WordPress Template Maybe
WordPress is like a robot companion who fights alongside you, facilitates your livelihood, but also might explode into a cloud of fart gas and flying turds at any moment. You might be wondering: “How...
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I’ll read work at WONDERBOOK on Saturday
I started wishing there was a small, laid-back literary event that I could go to with a bunch of my local writer pals. Unfortunately, there wasn’t anything like that to be had so I had to make it...
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10 Character Names for Romance Novels
You may use these in your work, if you like. All I ask is a walk-on role in the eventual movie adaptation. Jack Hardcliffe Torn Abripple Cord McShoulders Mason Huntington Sean O’Commitment Janice...
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Wonderbook Literary Open House Wrapup
I thought it might be fun to gather some of my local Atlanta author friends and have a relaxed hangout, and I’m pleased to say I was right about that. I grabbed my pals Jonathan French, Catie Hogan,...
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I Owe Miley Cyrus an Apology
A video made the rounds last week of Miley Cyrus and Jimmy Fallon, dressed as Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers, singing “Islands in the Stream.” It’s two people going to great costuming- and set-design...
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Columbus Has Syphilis, a sketch in “honor” of Columbus Day
This is a sketch I wrote for the Atlanta performing troupe Sketchworks. It was performed a few years ago to great acclaim. It being Columbus Day today, I thought we all might enjoy it once again....
View ArticleRick, Morty, Sauce, Fandom, and Fear of a Millenial Planet
Rick and Morty is an animated science fiction show on Adult Swim. It has a lot of craft to it, and enjoys a rabid fanbase as a result. It doesn’t grab me the way it seems to grab so many people, but as...
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MidSouthCon 36 (2018) Wrapup
I’ve been to MidSouthCon two times previously, but this was my first trip purely as a vendor. I wasn’t sure what to expect in terms of book sales, given that I wasn’t paneling at all, but it was Kool...
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I’m Your Republican Boyfriend and After a Lengthy Investigation I Have...
I have found no evidence that I made out with “Sarah,” if that’s even a person’s name. Perhaps there was some bad judgment, like when I accidentally took off my shirt. But bad judgment, as we all know,...
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Cryptocurrencies are Becoming the Everest of Stupid
If you know me from my mountain climbing books, you know that I try to inject a little humor into mountain climbing, which is a sport whose practitioners often take themselves too seriously. Let me be...
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Malcom Gladwell is Mad at Satire
PHOTO: Kris KrügI like Malcom Gladwell’s work because I want to feel smart without doing the work of research or analysis. Remember when he dropped that 10,000 hours knowledge bomb? People devoted...
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My Weekend at Hotel Terrible
I read the reviews of the Ramada Plaza & Conference Center by Wyndham Louisville before I went there, so I knew I was in for … something. “Nasty place STAY AWAY,” one review read. On the other...
View ArticleThe Vulgar History of Atlanta
Thanks to some creative pestering in my part, Village Theatre agreed to help me stage a play I wrote called The Vulgar History of Atlanta. I was thrilled and flattered to have a number of extremely...
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