26. March 2008 by admin.

Nots is back on it’s normal schedule!  Look for another installment on Saturday.

I never knew how hard it could be to come up with multiple terms to describe rolling an object between your palms.  Try it, see how many you can come up with.

I also have some make-you-think blogs strolling through my head, but they took 2nd fiddle to getting Nots back on track.  I’ll post the one’s that are still relevant today or tomorrow!

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24. March 2008 by admin.

Well, it took too fricken long, but I was able to reconstruct the lost chapter of Notsferatu to the point where I was happy with it.  If I ever get the original chapter off my crapped out Flash drive I’ll put it up and let people argue which was better.

Thank you, by the way, to everyone who sent in suggestions on how to recover the Flash drive data.  We’re still working on it.

PBN is up on it’s own website!  You can still link to it from Ontheblob.net, along with the archive.

Back to work on the story!

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19. March 2008 by admin.

The flash drive I use to hold the PBN and Notsferatu files crapped out on me last night while I was prepping the final edit for this week’s Notsferatu installment. Now it won’t register in any of the computers. If it’s really dead then I’ve lost the next couple of weeks of PBN, Chapter 12 of Notsferatu, and several chapters of the other books I’m working on. I’m hoping I can pull the electrons off of the damn thing, and if anyone has any suggestions, it’s a Sandisk 1G. Email any suggestions to wm@ontheblob.net. If nothing works, I’ll spend tonight rewriting Notsferatu and it will be posted, at least in part, over the next couple of days. PBN will go up as normal Thursday morning.

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12. March 2008 by admin.

There will, and should, be little sympathy for Gov. Spitzer for being engaged in a high priced extra-marital affair with expensive call girls. But one could not help but feel sorry for Mrs. Spitzer on Monday as she stood by her husband while he confessed his infidelities to the world. There was not even the cold comfort that her philandering spouse had violated their marriage vows for love.

Gov. Spitzer will resign. He has made too many enemies during his political tenure with his holier-than-thou and take-no-prisoners attitude. Right now, the sounds of knives being sharped in Albany must be deafening.

I’ve written before about how we really want lying, cheating bastards as our leaders.  This is still true.  And since we want lying cheating bastards, we shouldn’t be surprised when they lie, cheat and act like bastards.  But as OUR bastards we have a reasonable expectation that they will restrict their lying, cheating and bastardizing to our benefit.  Or at least be damn discreet when they’re not.

I hope Mrs. Spitzer gets the first cut.

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12. March 2008 by admin.

Adm. Fallon was forced to resign/retire yesterday.  Adm. Fallon was the head of Central Command, and in charge of running the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

He was forced out for statements he made in an Esquire article where he made a vigorous argument against making war against Iran.  This attitude, and his comments, undercut the Bush Administration and their case for war.

Bush has repeatedly said he will make military decisions based on advice he gets from listening to his generals.  But his actions have shown that is only so long as the generals are saying things President Bush wants to hear.

Or maybe it was because Bush discovered Fallon is actually an admiral and not a general, and therefore Bush wasn’t bound by his previous promises.

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11. March 2008 by admin.

The Catholic Church released a list of 7 new sins.  The list includes some issues I would have expected, such as birth control and stem cell research, but also encompassed such things as pollution and contributing to economic disparity.  The full list is:

1. “Bioethical” violations such as birth control

2. “Morally dubious” experiments such as stem cell research

3. Drug abuse

4. Polluting the environment

5. Contributing to widening divide between rich and poor

6. Excessive wealth

7. Creating poverty

For the most part, I’m impressed.

While the Church is still on the wrong side of the birth control & stem cell debate, I’m glad it has gone from condeming the more societal kinds of acts as a matter of conscience to making them expressly sinful.  Doing so adds an emphasis that was lacking before.

As an aside, The Apostolic Penitentiary is actually the branch dedicated to forgiveness.  There is a definate dichotomy between its mission and its name.

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9. March 2008 by admin.

Barack Obama won the Wyoming primary yesterday. Sort of. Wyoming had 12 delegates at stake, and under the Dem’s all too fair proportional allotment system Barack took 7, but Hillary took 5. So, basically, they had a dead heat result that solved nothing.

Instead of spending the money on a pointless primary Wyoming should have had a statewide BBQ block party. It would have been about as meaningful candidate-wise and a lot more fun.

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9. March 2008 by admin.

I put up the latest serial installment of Notsferatu.  The posting last Wednesday was pretty short, I’ve made up for it this time.

I’m looking for an affordable scanner so I can do Guys in Robes.  Unlike PBN, GiR is going to be hand-drawn.   Not that that’ll be anymore impressive than PBN, but it will look different.

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8. March 2008 by admin.

One of Barak’s senior advisers was forced to quit Friday after she called Mrs. Clinton “a monster” who would do anything to get elected.

I’m not sure what the problem is.

I don’t want a president who isn’t willing to fight, tooth and nail, for the job.  Fred Thompson tried to mosey his way into the office, and was quite rightly slapped around for his lackadaisical attitude.  And if Mr. Obama feels he needs to stay above the fray, I want him to have minions willing to kill to get him elected.

If this is a government for the people, that means he works for me, and I have high employee standards.  What I don’t want is some Eagle Scout Do-Gooder running my country.

(Like this info will fend off the slings and arrows:  I am an Eagle Scout.  Never got the doing good part down, though.)

The world is a dangerous place, full of bastards with evil intent on our persons.  I want a bastard on our side willing to do what’s needed to keep us safe.  Anyone not willing, or able, to live up to those standards should find a job with nicer responsibilities.

Is Hillary a monster?  Maybe.   But sometimes you need the dragon, not the princess.

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8. March 2008 by admin.

I suspect this weekend will see more groups playing the classic ‘Tomb of Horrors’ adventure module than at any time in almost 30 years.

If you’re a fan of steampunk, Girl Genius, or noir pulp fiction, you should check out this site:

http://listverse.com/humor/top-12-things-you-need-to-be-a-mad-scientist

They forgot goggles, but hey, we all know, the goggles, they actually do nothing.

I’m trying to get Notsferatu updated on both Wednesdays and Saturdays now, we’ll see.  I am also starting on a series of short (one page or less) stories that are more classic fantasy, but with a twist.  Next, a short stories that involves a large squirrel.

I’ll get political in my next post, to give folks something to fling mud at me about.

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