Chevrolet was asking for mass sabotage when it created a make-your-own-ad page online for some silly contest. Here’s mine. Not the best I’ve seen, but I like it. Go see it — soon. Or make your own. UPDATE: It’ll probably be gone when I wake tomorrow morning, but I got screen shots. Heh. I’ll do ’em up and upload soon…
Month: March 2006
It’s Getting a Bit Ridiculous, and I’m Getting a Bit Used to It
I hate to be one of those typical annoyed foreigners who bitches and bitches about his inability to get a credit card in Korea, but good grief. A couple of places told me no right when I tried to apply, because I’m a foreigner. Okay, fine… Then I was allowed to apply at another place, and told I would be getting a card, and then I was told at the last minute that, oh, no, sorry, we can’t give you one and we can’t tell you why either. But then a friend of mine told me I could get one …
Octavia Butler, age 58, passed away last month.
While I haven’t read anything of her writing yet , I’ve planned to do so for several years. But this sad news matters to anyone who cares about SF literature: Octavia E. Butler has died.
Chevy Tahoe: The Apprentice ®
The most brilliant SUV commercial ever. via Weird is Relative
Memejunk
Another of those timekiller mindkiller meme things, nabbed from LJer typefiend. Beneath the cut, of course.
Disney vs. VD
This has gotta be the weirdest Disney movie ever. Found on the same site it’s linked at, Cartoon Brew.
For Those Reading By RSS
A couple of private posts, including a new (very) short story, are up which might interest you. Private posts never show up on RSS, so I’m mentioning it on the open feed. Which reminds me, I may try to find a way of having WordPress note when a private post has been made, without it showing the content, just so that RSS subscribers can know that there is something new, even if they can’t see it on the feed. It would seem to be a very useful function, and I’d be surprised if someone hasn’t thought of it yet. Though …
First of the Wave
Outgoing submissions have just begun. I just sent a very unlikely submission to a very unlikely magazine, but hey, why not take a shot in the dark here and there? It’s dark, it’s off-color, more brutal than most things I’ve written to date, and viciously political and, I think, effective as satire. But still, the only reason I went ahead and sent it to this particular magazine was because they accept submissions by email (as my friend John informed me of that a long time ago) and I figured it was worth the random long shot, as this is the …
The Way Things Go and Come Around
At the end of high school, getting onto a bus with my first girlfriend, I was mistaken for a girl. Okay, it was a very old, blind bus driver; he had to be, as I never really did keep up with shaving in high school. But I guess this guy grew up in a time when long hair equalled girl, and that last year of high school, I had let my hair grow out. So he addressed us, collectively, as “young ladies”. I don’t know, maybe he knew what he was doing and did it just to insult me — …
Red Pen Machete
I spent a lot of time last weekend grading. Okay, not as much as I might have liked, but a lot nonetheless. I have read through, added comments, and graded the Mind Maps of the Advanced writing class, but not yet recorded the grades in my records. I have read through, added comments to, and sorted (but not assigned letter-grades) the Daytime Elementary Writing course’s Mind Maps. I have read through, added comments to, and sorted (but not assigned letter-grades) almost all of the Magazine Demographic/Advertising Analyses in my Media class. I have uploaded to a gallery, but not yet …