In the Mouth of Madness

Zombieland, Midnight Showing, 'Nuff Said...

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:10:44 GMT

If you are interested in the midnight showing tomorrow at the Imax theater in town, let me know. I am totally hitting it before heading to South Dakota.

Johnny Utah is stuck in me head!

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:00:28 GMT

This morning I was woken by a dream – a nightmare really. Also I wasn’t really woken by it as it came after the alarm clock woke me up. Of course it wasn’t really the alarm clock that woke me up as the alarm clock was playing the decoy for the smaller clock that woke me up. Apparently I scared the smaller alarm clock and it had to hide behind its big brother. Confused yet? Imagine going through this all when you are not really awake yet.

As I prepared to go back to sleep and get as much rest as I could before starting the day, I fell into The Dream. This particular nightmare was not one of monsters chasing me, the world coming to an end in some cataclysmic way. This dream was a nightmare for two reasons alone. The first being that apparently my character in this dream was being played by Keanu Reeves – and for the record no, I did not know Kung Fu. Perhaps even scarier was that the great leaps of insight that came at the end of the dream in a method similar to JD at the end of an episode of Scrubs made sense to me. Yes, the Keanu logic seemed normal and intelligent to me.

So, I lay in bed trying to make sense of the nonsense. Although I have watched a few Keanu movies in my time, I am not particularly prone to hearing my voice in that of Ted Logan or Bill S. Preston, Esquire for that matter. Also, while the voice was the Keanu that was made fun of in the Celebrity Jeopardy skit where he was played by Tobey Maquire, it was the Point Break Keanu that I was stuck in the head of. See how confusing it can get?

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Interview and Contest on Geek Like Me

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:58:03 GMT

Head on over to Geek Like Me and you will find the first interview in the Picking Your Brain series where I interview local author Alex Bledsoe. You will also find the information on our first contest in that interview where we will be giving away two signed copies of Alex's first book. Contest ends July 19th, so pop over soon.

The Story That Was Not To Be Told

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 19:54:54 GMT

A writer is releasing a story they claimed would never be written. It is being released free to the web, but she is accepting donations. I never read the first story, but I will read this one. I will even forgo a bit so that I can donate in for them. I may be that writer in need some day. ;)

http://yuki-onna.livejournal.com/487082.html

Social Media and Self Promotion

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 18:23:45 GMT

A short series of thoughts, and the promotion of yet another Young Adult novel on Geek Like Me. What can I say? I'm on a roll.

Did he say race?!?

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 13:36:51 GMT

Indeed I have entered a race. No, not a slow an painful race to a finish line sort of thing. I do not have to wear a turtle suit. Intrigued? The full information is posted over on Geek Like Me.

I... Live...

Mon, 11 May 2009 20:37:55 GMT

Indeed -- even though I have been avoiding this place for a while -- I do, in fact, live.

Ever since starting the column on Geek Like Me, it has become more and more difficult to keep things up to date on all social networking sites. I am actually considering something that will control it all for me.

Either way, I have posted the reviews for Star Trek and Wolverine over on Geek Like Me.

You can either check out the homepage, or click here for the direct link to the article.

Test post for the widget

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 16:06:19 GMT

Just making sure it works and all...

It seems to work, although it will probably take some time for the word count to make its way there. I put in what I knew for sure I had done, and I will update it tonight when I can pull a wordcount off my laptop.

New Brain Matters!

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 16:31:34 GMT

So I looked at the Grumbling Dwarf and figured I would not replace out the news of the local minicon right away. What a better reason to promote the column on my own blog?

The two from this week are;

The Game of Politics - in which I discuss my dislike of current political trends.

The Most Evil Creature in the World™ Returns - in which I continue my tale of how a mild halfling rogue becomes the Most Evil Creature in the World™.

For My Own Reference

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:34:35 GMT

Also, I think there are friends on my LJ list that may get a kick out of these...

And the coffee one... ;)

This is a Peter/Gen Test

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:35:26 GMT

Lets see how often they still read my LJ and Grumbling Dwarf. I have posted a story about Seattle on Geek Like Me, and included a photo of Pete with a kitten. Let's see how long it takes for them to notice. ;)

I'll even link it for them.

Stolen List

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:30:45 GMT

The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed.

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them ;-)

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte's Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad (I read this two times, and both hurt equally)
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare (Randall Kim FTW!!!)
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Wow... 42... Makes it almost ironic that the Hitchhikers Guide was one of them I read. ;)

Which brings up another point. Wouldn't you think if the person that made this list had read Hitchhikers Guide they would have made that number 42 on the list?

New Column Posted on GLM!!!

Wed, 21 May 2008 21:18:29 GMT

A new Zombie Joe's Brain Matter was posted under the title The Difference Between Hearing and Listening on Geek Like Me. If you happened to be in Misty Mountain Games last night as I was walking in, or are a friend of mine who is a citizen of Germany (and not a World of Warcraft judge), then you have probably already heard this one. ;)

A few more new ones

Fri, 16 May 2008 20:43:14 GMT

A few more articles went up at Geek Like Me this week. In fact the last one even mentions gentlest_sin. ;)

New Article and Other Things

Tue, 06 May 2008 21:29:23 GMT

So, there is a new article up on Geek Like Me in the Geek Stuff section. I slowed down a bit, but I also took some time off of work to do some spring cleaning which seems to be a job you cannot walk away from. There is no punching out at 5:00 and going home.

As for other things, I am at that crossroads again on deciding if I am going to go for just judging, or attempt to be competitive with at least one card game. Not sure, but I am sure that I will figure it out in time.

New Article on Geek Like Me

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:17:51 GMT

I have been updating to a new article every couple of days, but another one just went up. You can find the link to the archives at the bottom of the article, but here is the direct link...

Those Who Can't Play, Judge: Volume Two

That took a while

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:14:39 GMT

So I totally forget to post the link of the thing I swiped from julzerator because I knew that lex_of_green and lerite would think they were cool, and it took until now for someone to post... "what link?" ;)

I even saw Zee on Sunday!

So, here is the link...

http://www.vibramfivefingers.com/products/products_footwear.cfm

Totally Swiping This One

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:20:07 GMT

A while ago julzerator posted this one, and I know lex_of_green and lerite would get a kick out of these. They are not cheap, but they would give you the advantages of being with shoes, and most of the advantages of being bare footed. At least according to the site. ;)

Field Trip!

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:06:11 GMT

So, in talking with gadgetgeek this morning, we got on the topic of movies, and then it swung around to my declaring that the Key Maker from Matrix 2 was my favorite actor of all time. I really have few things that are my favorites, but I really feel solid on declaring that one. And thus an idea was born... (I can already see Dave rolling his eyes.)

I was thinking that with the number of RPG, drama, and theater geeks at and around Misty (and other places visited by me), that an organized field trip for a Saturday Matinee out to American Players Theater for some Shakespeare might be in order.

If you are interested, comment below with your approval, numbers of peeps no on LJ that would be interested, and any questions/comments. If you have friends not on my friends list you think might be interested, pass this on.

My Avatar is Done!

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 21:09:40 GMT

Now tell me that the toon is not just full of win!

robbi_kenobi finished the toon and added it as the header to Zombie Joe's Gray Matter over on Geek Like Me. There is also a new article posted up there ready for your reading enjoyment. On a personal note, I am DAMNED tired today! Luckily I have my second wind now.

New Column Posted

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:11:36 GMT

This weekend there was a new column posted about the event I was in Friday Night. Just take a pop over to Geek Like Me and check out Zombie Joe's Brain Matter for the article "Those Who Can't Play, Judge."

Another revolving around gaming and geekiness should post tonight some time.

Grey Matter

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 21:08:03 GMT

The reposting of A Tale of Two Celebrities went live on Geek Like Me today. The newest one may be pushed back to Monday. Either that, or I may have to look at getting two posted tomorrow.

New Column Posted

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:26:59 GMT

There is a new story posted on Geek Like Me. I know that I said that I was going to be catching up before posting new, but life is a fluid thing, and you either go with the flow or be pulled under. In short, something came up. Unfortunately it is a little sad, but I think it ends well. At least I hope it does.

Also, if you haven't checked it out yet, read through the web comic -- I know I enjoy it. Otherwise, there is also the link to the Zombie Joe's Brain Matter Archive.

Geek Column Timeline

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 18:38:25 GMT

After a short discussion with robbi_kenobi we have decided to post a story a day from the LJ entries I have to catch up with my LJ posts. I will end this week by posting volume one of the new arc I started writing about this weekend. So, today starts with my tale of my favorite story as a child. I will be sure to post at the end of the week when the new one goes up.

Some Updates and a Short Pause On Stories

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:51:33 GMT

While I have seemed to hit a stride with some of the stories, I have also seemed to hit a rather large stride. It seems that my friend robbi_kenobi liked my stories to the point that he asked if I would be willing to do a column on the Geek Like Me web site. As I am a geek, I so no reason not to become a geek columnist.

So you can find Zombie Joe's Brain Matter in the "Geek Stuff" section of www.ageeklikeme.com. Or, you can go here to get the archive list of columns. There is only one so far as the other story and article were pre-column.

So on Day Three of Robin being gone, we are on 2 of 3 for finding zombie movies on television. Grindhouse and Highlander on Tuesday, and Slither on Thursday. I can't wait to see what the final night tonight brings. ;)