When I’m bored, I often start thinking of really horrible titles for novels. Titles like… The Bird That Pooped on the Universe Pwned by the Dragon King The Funkiest Knight Slow Fizz Djinni Oh Shit! Zombies! But nothing I come up with compares with the best/worst romance novel title EVER. Oh well.
On a whim, I copied and pasted my last blog entry into Google Translate, translated it into Latin, then translated it back into English. This is what I ended up with. I find it amusing and oddly pretty. We woke up from a long, wonderful dream I want to write. Morrow was here, late 19th [...]
I’ve posted this story online before, but never on this blog. So for posterity’s sake (if nothing else), I’ll post this now. Are you ready? Read on for the story of… My Night as a Male Stripper! When I was an undergrad at the University of Iowa, my friend James lived with two friends in [...]
The other day, on a whim, I tweeted and posted to Facebook, “If I were a superhero, what would my name be? Best name gets a prize of some sort. GO!” I liked a lot of the suggestions my friends threw out to me, but there was on that was a clear winner. It spawned [...]
“Nothing in this book is true.” –Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle I love April Fool’s Day. Well, let me clarify. I like jokes and pranks that are inclusive, that knowingly wink to people and say, “This is clearly not true, but wouldn’t it be wonderful and funny if it were?” To me, the best pranks are [...]
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