Okay, Fine, So…Next Book
Posted on 01.15.06 by Widge @ 5:45 am

So it occurs to me that my original plan isn't really valid in light of my New Year's resolution.

Here was the original plan:

1. Get Sunday Before You published. Done.

2. Get it sold out. Working on it.

3. Reprint it and the out of print Love Letters in a single bound book along with a third "book's worth" of poems and lyrics entitled What I Did On My Summer Vacation. This would be the "outtakes" of the previous two books and all the remaining poetry I had that was worth a damn that was theretofore unpublished. Vacation would be book-only, to try and inspire folks to buy the thing.

Now that everything's going up online…there's no reason not to proceed and get it published. So therefore, as of now, my third bound book has the working title "Broken as Designed," a line from one of the songs and an album title I unfortunately never got to use. Once I get it organized, you'll get it up here and it'll be in the pipeline to get published.

In other news, the latest Something Else is now available here which kicks off the third season.

And the latest chapter of Overkill is up here as well.

Somebody asked what was going on over at the Internet Archive, and yes, I am putting things are they are finished over there as well as the audio page. If you like the stuff you've downloaded from here that's listed there, slap it a review up, would you? Every little bit helps.

P.S. The Lady Porphyre has the best line I've read in a week's time: "I'm in the wrong place, but you're not." It's pretty much a summary of the poetry I've written to date, in eight words. She's just that way.

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New Stuff for 1-13-2006
Posted on 01.13.06 by Widge @ 1:38 am

Okay, let's see…where are we?

Something Else #49, the third season opener, has a first draft completed.

I recorded "With Such Permanence as Time Has" this evening…I should have that up over the weekend. Nope, couldn't wait. It's up here.

And Next Wave #2 is now converted and online here.

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New Stuff for 1-11-06
Posted on 01.11.06 by Widge @ 2:44 am

First up, the latest chapter of Overkill has been posted here.

And the first three tracks of The Sunday Before You are online on the audio page:

"Mithradates - He Dead", "Your Body is an Alien Thing" and "Laughed to See Such Fun".

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More Updates
Posted on 01.09.06 by Widge @ 3:48 am

While you're here, pledge not to buy CDs with DRM on them. Remember: reward the behavior you want to continue, punish the behavior you want to see decrease. Hat tip to Boing Boing.

Also, I love my Sidekick, true, but not this much.

In other news, the second part of my reading of "Call of Cthulhu" is now online.

You can expect the third season opener of Something Else to hit in the next few days. Episode 50 is already being sketched out.

I'm hoping to have some sketches of Eye up this week. My art supplies have been temporarily misplaced, however, so bear with me.

As you were.

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Latest Updates
Posted on 01.08.06 by Widge @ 6:01 am

Okay, the fifth chapter of Overkill is now up.

So is the latest section of HTQ4's "Ginger" story from Dark Blue Monstropolis. Find that here.

And I'm converting Next Wave as fast as possible. The first fifteen pages are up, plus the cover.

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More Overkill
Posted on 01.06.06 by Widge @ 6:29 am

The latest chapter is now up here.

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I Went Looking for Religion
Posted on 01.05.06 by Widge @ 2:26 am

Well, the other night I decided to go searching for religion and the folks at this facility must have known I was coming. Check out the message they left for me.

I am verboten in every sense of the word, I guess.

They must have known how I was going to end Season 2 of Something Else, I guess. Oh well. Maybe next time.

And for those that asked, I'll be getting the other two complete issues of Next Wave up shortly. Never fear. Reformatting is just no fun, you know?

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Top Ten Songs My Eardrums Used to Sate Their Masochism
Posted on 01.04.06 by Widge @ 4:55 am

For December:

10. "Dive For You" - Boom Boom Satellites
9. "Would?" - Alice in Chains
8. "Anchor End" - A Wilhelm Scream
7. "Just Lose My Mind" - Party Ben
6. "Phoenix" - Exit Mindbomb
5. "Hayling (radio edit)" - FC Kahuna
4. "Army of Bono" - Clutch
3. "The Noise" - Regina Spektor
2. "No One Takes Your Freedom" - DJ Earworm
1. "All These Things That I've Done" - Killers

In other news, Episode 48 of Something Else is complete and should be up tomorrow.

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2006: The Year of Transparency
Posted on 01.01.06 by Widge @ 2:29 am

Okay, I've had my glass of sparkling grape juice and I'm feeling a little fuzzy in the head, but here goes: this is what you can expect from me in 2006:

I'm putting everything online. All of it.

Basically, if I'm working on it, you will see it. It will be online, under a Creative Commons license, and you will see my work as it progresses. And once it's done, it stays online.

That's why Door People went online. That's why I've been putting all these new Wordpress installations up this past month. The only exception–when you won't see something I'm doing online–is when I've co-written it with someone else or when I'm doing it specifically for someone else and it's not for any public consumption at the time. But right now, that's only a handful of things.

So the new novel, the short stories, the everything. You get it as it gets completed. And as it's already been demonstrated, the eyes of the Net are wonderful proofreaders.

Here's what you can expect:

Dark Blue Monstropolis. This will become active now under its new Wordpress installation. Tee's story continues and I still have a couple of other people making noises about joining up.

Overkill. This is my second novel.

Something Else. My ongoing short stories. Episode 48, the second season closer, will go live shortly. Then the third season will begin. I've moved it from LiveJournal to One Tusk primarily because I want to be able to track who my readers are, where they're coming from, and whatnot. And I want the pageviews, to be perfectly frank.

My audiobooks and files. All of my audio performances will go here. I plan on soldiering on with all of it, including Doctorow's Down and Out, since I love reading other people's stuff as well as my own.

Next Wave. My comic book. Since I cannot draw and I don't know anybody who really can–or at least not well enough to ask them to do it for free for me–it's strictly in script form. Originally launched back in 2000, I put it on permanent hiatus after I figured out how to publish Mystics on the Road to Vanishing Point, my first novel. The idea was that I had no real way of publishing a comic book and making money off of it, so I should focus instead of things that I could publish hard copy. That was 2000. Now, more than five years later, most of my stuff is happening online and it's not like I'm making enough money to quit my day job regardless. So my primary reason for not continuing the story is null and void. And surprisingly, it's not Warren Ellis' latest Marvel project that made me want to start this up, but rather Carla Speed McNeil's Finder, the best comic book you're not buying. And you can't now, until it hits trades–because she's essentially blogging the pages as they are ready for prime time. So I figured that if she could do it, I could do my paltry excuse for a comic as well in the same fashion. Besides, the characters need the story to be told.

Something Odd is currently on hold until I can create some new elements to use, as the strip generator I was using to create the comics has apparently been taken offline. But this way I will own all the elements and can create gear and other stuff to hock here on the site. So expect Sigmund, Orvil and Eye to return, but in slightly different forms and perhaps with different names. But I enjoy doing the webcomic, so I'm going to continue, but with my own really crappy artistic sense to back me up. I pity you all. Oh, and when I get sketches ready, they'll go up on the site. Like I said, no waiting. It's ready, you'll have it.

Those are my major projects, besides Needcoffee, of course. That's what you will be seeing from me in 2006. With perhaps some other stuff as well cropping up here and there. If you want to follow everything, you can subscribe to my RSS feed on this site, because I'll be posting notices of everything here on the mothership, along with all of my usual BS. If you're only interested in certain projects, they have their own feeds and you can find those on their sites.

My goal is to do all of this, and I want to hear from you. I'm an attention whore–I've never pretended to be anything else. Bailey asked me, "How long can you keep all of this running?" And the answer is: until somebody notices. So I want to hear from you. Do you like it? Do you hate it? And, yes, I will be putting the tip jar on all the sites, because frankly I'd love to make some lunch money off of this stuff. But in the end, even if you didn't throw coins at me, I'd keep doing this. I'm a writer. I don't have much choice in the matter. Better it all be online messing with your heads than stuck inside my own head, clogging up the works.

So in 2006, all the safeties come off. If I succeed or if I fail, you're going to be able to watch me do it in near real-time. It all starts now.

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Audio Now Consolidated
Posted on 12.25.05 by Widge @ 4:50 am

Okay, all the audio files I've created for my stuff (and in some cases, other people's stuff) is now linked up in one place here for your dancing and dining pleasure. Any updates to that page I'll post here, so fear not.

Also, in a few days http://audio.onetusk.com will be pointing there as well for convenience's sake.

Huzzah.

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