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Sunset in Bolinas.

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“Leave the problems of God to God and karma to karma. Today you’re here and nothing you do will change that. Today you are alive and here and honored and blessed with good fortune. Look at this sunset, it’s beautiful, eh? This sunset exists. Tomorrow does not exist. There is only now. Please look. It is so beautiful and it will never happen ever again, never, not this sunset, never in all infinity. Lose yourself in it, make yourself one with nature and do not worry about karma, yours, mine, or that of the village.”
? James Clavell

It was the same in 1919 as it is now.

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“But a thought that has often occurred to me in selling rare editions may interest you. The customer’s willingness to part with his money is usually in inverse ration to the permanent benefit he expects to derive from what he purchases….. Folks will pay a darned sight more to be amused than to be exalted. Look at the way a man shells out five bones fo a couple of theater seats, or a spends a couple of dollars o a week on cigars without thinking of it. Yet two dollars or five dollars for a book costs him positive anguish.

“The mistake you fellows in the retail trade have made is trying to persuade your customers that books are necessities. Tell them they’re luxuries. That’ll get them! People have to work so hard in this life they’re shy of necessities. A man will go on wearing a suit until it’s threadbare, much sooner than smoke a threadbare cigar.”

The Haunted Bookshop by Christopher Morley (1919)

Kurt Vonnegut: Advice on Writing. ALL you need!

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1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.

2. Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.

3. Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.

4. Every sentence must do one of two things-reveal character or advance the action.

5. Start as close to the end as possible.

6. Be a Sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them-in order that the reader may see what they are made of.

7. Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.

8. Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To hell with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroaches eat the last few pages.

Pedaling A New Miracle Drug!

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– if you have asthma and cannot go out to follow the bee;
– if you have acne and hate the pock marks on your forehead;
– if you have depression and it weighs you down watching you;
– if you have scabby ugly psoriasis…….

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Photo: Matt Browne, Flikr, Creative Commons

– Will open your clogged air vents;
– Dry up the acne afflicting your face;
– And lift you up from depression pits if you have no suicidal thoughts;
– Clear your psoriasis for a week, inside of a week.

Simple Side effects: nausea, drowsiness, and dizziness. Fast heart rate, suicidal thoughts and hallucinations.

Other Side effects may also include: Back pain; headache; mild pain, redness, or swelling at the injection site; mild stomach pain; nausea; runny or stuff nose.

Medium allergic reactions:
(Rash; hives; itching; difficulty breathing; tightness in the chest; swelling of the mouth, face, lips, or tongue; unusual hoarseness); black, tarry, or bloody stools; blood in the urine; burning, numbness, or tingling; butterfly-shaped rash on the nose and cheeks; change in the appearance of a mole; chest pain; confusion; fainting; fast or irregular heartbeat; mental or mood changes; muscle pain or weakness; new or worsening joint pain; open sore that does not heal; persistent pain, swelling, or redness at the injection site; red, swollen, blistered, or peeling skin; severe or persistent headache or dizziness; severe or persistent stomach pain; shortness of breath; signs of infection (eg, fever, chills, or persistent sore throat; persistent cough; flu-like symptoms; warm, red, or painful skin; increased or painful urination); swelling of the ankles, hands, or feet; tremor; unexplained weight loss or weight gain; unusual bruising or bleeding; unusual lumps; unusual skin growth or other skin changes; unusual tiredness or weakness; unusually pale skin; vision changes; vomit that looks like coffee grounds.

Slightly than medium reactions: Anxiety; constipation; decreased sexual desire or ability; diarrhea; dizziness; drowsiness; dry mouth; increased sweating; loss of appetite; nausea; nervousness; stomach upset; tiredness; trouble sleeping; vomiting; weight loss.

Severe side effects:
Severe allergic reactions (rash; hives; itching; difficulty breathing; tightness in the chest; swelling of the mouth, face, lips, or tongue); bizarre behavior; black or bloody stools; chest pain; confusion; decreased bladder control; decreased concentration; decreased coordination; exaggerated reflexes; fainting; fast or irregular heartbeat; fever; hallucinations; memory loss; new or worsening agitation, panic attacks, aggressiveness, impulsiveness, irritability, hostility, exaggerated feeling of well-being, restlessness, or inability to sit still; persistent or severe ringing in the ears; persistent, painful erection; red, swollen, blistered, or peeling skin; seizures; severe or persistent anxiety or trouble sleeping; severe or persistent headache; stomach pain; suicidal thoughts or attempts; tremor; unusual bruising or bleeding; unusual or severe mental or mood changes; unusual weakness; vision changes; worsening of depression.

Severe severe side effects:
– Nasal and ear hair growth (Werewolfism).
– Long toothism and canine fang growth (Vampirism).

If you still decide to take our drug, whatever happens serves you right!

A Farce!

Play or Don’t, But Check It Out!

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I’m it for now but I won’t be by the time I finish writing this post. But some of you will!

Thank you, poet/writer/bloggin’ buddy Sweepy Jean for tagging me into the game. The rules are as follows:

  1. Post the rules.
  2. Tag up to eleven bloggers by posting links to their blogs, and let them know.
  3. Create eleven questions for the people you’ve tagged.
  4. Answer the questions your tagger posed for you.
  5. Have fun!

#2 Some bloggers to check out:

These are but a few of the wonderful people I follow and post all over the net. Talented and wonderful. They make the world a little better.

#3 Questions for you to answer:

  1. What is your favorite movie?
  2. What is your favorite drink?
  3. What are you reading now?
  4. What is your exercise of choice?
  5. Are you a late night or early dawn person?
  6. What equipment do you use for photography?
  7. How many words do you write in one sitting?
  8. Do you like to edit?
  9. Do you re-write before you give it to your editor or do you hand it off raw?
  10. In the Matrix, he asked to come back as someone important, like an actor. What or who would you like to come as?
  11. Do you read more than one book at a time?

#4 Answering the Questions posed to me:

What are your top three favorite films?
-Murphy’s Romance/ When Harry Met Sally/ Something’s Gotta Give

What makes you laugh?
-I am silly. I laugh about everything especially when I make mistakes.

What would you want to be if you couldn’t be human?
-A Monkey

Are you too cool for school?
-Hardly! Don’t like the rigidity though.

What’s the best thing that could happen to you?
-I die in my sleep.

What’s your favorite element on the periodic table?
-Silver

What is “it”?
-Life as it comes.

Dogs or cats?
-Dogs by far!

What’s the hardest question you ever had to answer?
-Too hard.

Why is it that I’m just now learning about the Lorax, the new movie notwithstanding?
-You don’t read to children?

If you had the chance to do it all again, would you?
-Hard question to answer directly. Start from when? Will I be the same person? Would I start knowing what I know now? All in all, I would say, no. I love my life.

#Had Fun!