Fiction Frenzy Was a Success
Posted on 02.06.06 by Widge @ 5:38 am

I'm very pleased to see that so many folks banged out a short story over the weekend. Turnout was frankly better than I expected for a first time thing. I'm hoping to run another one in a few weeks. You can see all of that glorious mess here.

And Episode 51 of Something Else was my contribution.

Plus, a new chapter of Overkill has gone live.

New music I dig this time around is "Turnstile Blues" by Autolux. Thanks to Communications Major, English Minor for the headsup.

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Writing. Oh, and Music.
Posted on 01.31.06 by Widge @ 3:58 am

Goose over at Veritas Lux Mea added me to his sidebar. Which is quite cool. I consistently get great music from his site, as I've mentioned before. I need to redo all of my sidebars, honestly. I'm thinking of adding a music one, and at that point I'll slap Goose and VLM in there as well as the other ones that are all in a conspiracy together to make my hard drive explode. Not to mention make me spend more money on music. Sneaky bastards, the lot of them.

On the newness front, I've got two more pages of Next Wave #4 up, as well as the latest chapter of Overkill.

I've got to get some infrastructure bits done on Needcoffee, so I'll be taking a few days to put full focus over there. No need to fear. Speaking of fear, Bloggie voting ends today. So head over and do that thing. It would be much appreciated.

What else? Oh, I've got a bit I want to write about the horror genre. And that will lead straight out of Episode 51 of Something Else, which is already about ready to pop. No rest for the wicked.

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Something Else #50 Hits…
Posted on 01.28.06 by Widge @ 5:39 am

Well, it was a crazy damn week. Barely kept my head above water with everything going on, so I apologize for the lack of posts and new content. Here's what I did manage to get up:

Something Else's 50th episode is now online. I'm jazzed as hell. Thanks for everybody who's supported it, both in its original home and now here. Many thanks.

The latest chapter of Overkill is up here.

The third page of Next Wave #4 is up here.

Tee's latest segment of his DBM "Ginger" story is online here.

And here's the new music that helped fuel this stuff:

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Needcoffee.com Scores a Bloggie Nom
Posted on 01.24.06 by Widge @ 2:06 am

It's funny…I find out after Monday's over that Monday, January 23rd, is supposed to be the most depressing day of the year. I'd vote for April 15th, myself, but regardless, my most depressing day of the year started off with finding out Needcoffee's been nominated for a Bloggie for Best-Kept-Secret Weblog. So that's incredible. Our readers are amazingly wonderful people, no matter what the rest of my staff thinks about them. I kid. Mostly.

So if you like our stuff, since NC is our biggest One Tusk hydra-head, please give us a vote.

In other news, I'm working on a new short story, independent of Something Else, that has a working title of "The Invasion at Nick's Place." Don't ask.

Lastly, latest amusing song I recommend to you is "Plea From a Cat Named Virtute" by the Weakerthans. Found yet again thanks to Goose at Veritas Lux Mea. Get the info there.

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New Audio, New Overkill, and a Soul-Sucking Music Source
Posted on 01.19.06 by Widge @ 2:53 am

I put up audio versions of the first two episode of Something Else a day ago, and got buried under something…so didn't post the headsup here. So…headsup.

Also, the latest chapter of Overkill is up.

Lastly, whatever you do, stay the hell away from The Hype Machine. It's a gigantic audio blog aggregator that churns out a couple hundred MP3s a day that I feel compelled to download and sample. It will consume your world. And your ears. Best so far is Chixdiggit's "I Remember You." Found that via Veritas Lux Mea. That and a picture of midriff licking. Just don't go to the site while nuns are watching you netsurf and you'll be fine.

Anyway, stay away from that aggregator, no matter what you do. It's a timesuck of unbelievable proportions. You've been warned.

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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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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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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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