I’ve been told I’m an acquired taste. Not everybody likes my sense of humor and that’s okay. My mother doesn’t like horror movies ever since my father took her to see The Exorcist all those years back. But I like them, so I figure there’s a 50/50 chance you will, too. Same with me. Now, when it comes to horror movies, I’m pretty old school. Give me a Friday the 13th, Halloween, Phantasm, Nightmare on Elm Street any day of the week and I’ll kick back with a cup of tea, snuggle with a pillow and be delighted as a kept man by his half Asian master as can be. Not all things stay the same, though. Writing doesn’t. Movies don’t. And I’m not entirely sure I get this whole PG13 horror movie craze to say nothing about BLTs…er…BDSM.
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May I Have A BLT With My BDSM and PG13 Horror?
May 23rd, 2013Trivia Question #5 For Butt Pirates In Space Giveaway!
May 22nd, 2013It’s Hump Day! Can you think of a better day to feature our 5th Butt Pirates In Space giveaway? You know…Hump Day? Butt Pirates? Are you seeing what I did there? If not, it’s okay. Subtlety is one of my many middle names. Now, before you get to the trivia question below, please be sure to check out My Rules.
The odds are considerably easier for this particular question since you have a 20% chance of being right just by guessing. See? Easier.
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Trivia Question #4 For Butt Pirates In Space Giveaway!
May 20th, 2013If you’re just tuning in to our Butt Pirates in Space giveaway, then please be sure to check out My Rules.
Okay, Friday’s question was too easy since the second person nailed it. That’s actually not a decent way of judging it, though. Let’s say that the correct answer was arrived at in half the time it took for the others. But that was then and this is now. Let’s see how well you do with a question geared for a Monday.
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The Weekend We Found Xanadu That Was
May 20th, 2013This was another special weekend, mostly because like the conventions I attend, it only happens once a year. And it typically involves a convention. My best friend from college (Don) comes down with his girlfriend (Lindsay) and we attend the Motor City Comicon. We’ve done this for the last ten years or so (which includes years prior to his meeting his girlfriend), only we skipped it this year. Instead, we drove around, listened to lots of Journey (one of author Dorien Grey’s favorite groups…so be sure to ask him about them!), and proceeded to explore the area around us in ways we never had before. It was a slightly surreal adventure where we sought out interesting things for Lindsay to photograph with her new camera and it turned into a wonderful bonding experience.
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The Face of Gay 33 (Petra)
May 18th, 2013Some online friends who I’ve had the pleasure to meet in person have been giving me a hand reaching out and asking their peeps if they’d like to submit something for the Face of Gay series. And when their initial approach hasn’t yielded any fruit, they’ve taken to more direct suggestions that there’s compliance. So I’m proud to say thank you to Patricia Logan for threatening…er…introducing Petra to little ol’ innocent me. Why? Because we’re going to be reminded today that hate and intolerance don’t come pre-loaded in our software. It’s taught. It’s learned. It can be undone. Welcome to Petra’s Face of Gay.
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Trivia Question #3 For Butt Pirates In Space Giveaway!
May 17th, 2013Need a reminder how this works? Here you go. Check out My Rules.
So, this is exciting! We’ve had two winners so far and they’ve won by mastering their powers of observation and technology. Well, one e-mailed one of the other authors and the other blew up a picture from a Facebook photo album. They did it! Since it’s Friday and since the previous questions were a little difficult, I thought I’d give you a slightly easier one for today.
Now let’s get to the third trivia question.
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Excuse Me, Sir? Would You Please Pick Out A #*$%@ Carpet?
May 16th, 2013Several of you have been mightily amused reading about my struggles during the home renovation project. I haven’t been quite as amused, but it’s entirely possible I may look back on this one day and find it amusing. Or I may have one of my staff look back on it and tell me how amusing it was. It could happen. The latest fiasco is the carpet. How friggin’ difficult is it to pick out carpet? And how exactly does one relay information to one’s husband about the carpet in order to make an informed decision when the aforementioned husband has a ‘thing’ about long phone conversations? And by long phone conversations, I mean any conversation over the phone that lasts longer than thirty seconds.
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Trivia Question #2 For Butt Pirates In Space Giveaway!
May 15th, 2013One of the perks of writing humor is when you’re taken by surprise due to something funny happening in real life. I mentioned in My Rules for the giveaway that one of the ways to find out the answer to a trivia question might be to contact the other authors in the anthology and ask them. Only one person did and it totally caught me off guard…which I find funny. I’m sure he did, too…laughing all the way to the mailbox when his copy arrives.
So let’s get to the second trivia question.
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Trivia Question #1 For Butt Pirates In Space Giveaway!
May 13th, 2013I know, I know. Exciting, right?
I’m going to warn you right now that this first question came from a discussion at OutlantaCon with all the authors from the anthology who attended. We thought it would be a fun way of doing something that couldn’t be looked up on the internet. And unless you know this author who’s the subject of our first trivia question, you’re probably going to have to guess. Or contact her. Or ask one of the other authors from the antho who were part of the discussion. Please just don’t ask me. That’s not fair and as Patricia Logan will tell you, I fib. Well, she said I lie, but really I fib. Honest.
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It’s a Mo-Mo Monday Morning in the Neighborhood!
May 13th, 2013I now know after last week why it is I space my blog posts out. Monday’s didn’t happen because I was traveling and still detoxing from time spent breathing the air around Patti Logan, which was easily 8% proof. I didn’t quite get the post done for Tuesday since I still didn’t have pictures downloaded for it and Wednesday was a bust. So I wrote one for Thursday, made up Monday’s post on Friday, then loaded one for Saturday. That gave me one day to then write one for Monday. I feel like I’m writing a novel all over again. So, what could possibly be left to write about? Believe it or not, there are two things that come immediately to mind; home renovations and Mo-Mo.
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