The end...

What Was It Like to Die?

Via Gerard Vanderluen

Firemen!

"Remember when the person you wanted to be most when you grew up was a fireman? Remember when the coolest thing you could think of doing for a day job was to stand on top of a roof engulfed in flames and saw through the roof into the rooms for flame below your feet? Yup. Me neither. Yet there it was."

Via American Digest and The Borderline Sociopathic Blog For Boys.

BURN - Helmet Cam Teaser (Shot with Contour HD) from BURN on Vimeo.

I'm not sure why I'm posting this..it just seemed right for my soul.

Just really cool.

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The Revolution coming to a Kindle near you.

Revolution

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Oh my God! England's falling into the sea!

Funny post from my friend and fellow author Paige W. Pendleton...

Count Olaf is Impersonating Lemony Snicket

Tale of Two Cities...

THERE WAS ONE MORE STONE FACE TOO MANY UP AT THE CHATEAU.

The Gorgon had surveyed the building again in the night, and had added the one stone face wanting; the stone face for which it had waited through about two hundred years.

It lay back on the pillow of Monsieur the Marquis. It was like a fine mask, suddenly startled, made angry, and petrified.

Driven home into the heart of the stone figure attached to it was a knife. Round its hilt was a frill of paper, on which was scrawled: “Drive him fast to his tomb. This, from JACQUES.”

— Dickens, Tale of Two Cities

It's almost Halloween. Time to roll out cyclops shark...

Creepy Cyclops Shark

Interesting times we write in...

Brave new world.

Learning...

"Genius is less a matter of intelligence as it is a matter of letting a young mind explore and learn."


What to do with the small humanoids?...


Learning

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Let me tell you stories...

That feeling you feel on the periphery of your consciousness, the weight, perhaps the light you feel without really seeing, that presence is me. I’m holding your hand, gently, trying to make a connection with you. I know you’re in there. I can sense you. It’s one of the many gifts bestowed upon me in that moment when I was raised up from the depths. Somewhere along that road I gained that ability to look within the minds of those around me.
Over the years, the hundreds that have past, I have learned to seek out those cracks and crevices in the minds of those who I circle about, never really alighting, just being there.

Astounding...Mesmerizing...Captivating...I'm out of superlatives.

Algorithims...The new Gatekeepers?

The remains of the book

"The sense of self-containment is what makes a good book so satisfying to its readers, and the requirement of self-containment is what spurs the writer to the highest levels of literary achievement. The book must feel complete between its edges."

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