In today's Twitter post round-up:
- "Spider goats" really exist, story here: is.gd/edBy and special picture here: is.gd/edBK
- CREEPY: policemen in Thailand will wear smiley-face masks - is.gd/edBT
- TO ALL AUTHORS: I have a poem about planets & their personalities, do you have suggestions for zines that would publish something like this?
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In today's Twitter post round-up:
- Vikings, giant alien monster, spaceships with laser cannons: what is not to like? Indie movie trailer, Outlander: is.gd/c2VX
- The Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus: is.gd/ilN (this is for you Matt Staggs)
- #charsketch Greer hated mom, who made dad leave. Stomping each crack in the sidewalk "break mother's back" dad would return to care for her.
- Vote for me (R. Schuyler Devin) here: is.gd/e2Ro -The gods of speculative fiction demand that you make me their mouthpiece! (Please?)
- Enjoyable story concept on the Daily Cabal called Silver Angel, read it here: tinyurl.com/9rl3zz
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In today's Twitter post round-up:
- Finally watched Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music: stunning vistas of Austria, Bavaria and of the marvelous structures. Enjoyed.
- [new blog post] [Inspiration] Accordion Music for a Coming Apocalypse. (cool photo) is.gd/dC3D
- Fact of the day: An estimated 500,000 people died in spectacles put on at the Roman Colosseum.
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In today's Twitter post round-up:
- Hope everyone is having a good Xmas! Alas, it is a day of nothingless for me...I need more something, anything, a speck of excitement.
- I feel a major quarter-life-crisis coming on. (Sorry, holidays make me melancholy)
- Despite my melancholy, I DO wish everyone a Merry Christmas, Best Wishes, Joy, and Hope of 2009 being a better year for All!
- "Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities." --Mark Twain
- [Daily Divination] [Xmas tree edition] Xylomancy: divination by patterns of fallen tree limbs, branches, twigs, and needles on the ground
- Everyone, go over to your Xmas tree & use Xylomancy to find a pine needle pattern on the carpet--hopefully--indicating a better year (2009).
- Interesting fantastical family tree: is.gd/d55a - Santa, Trolls, Yeti, Faeries, Dionysus, Magi, Beelzebub, Clowns, and so much more!
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In today's Twitter post round-up:
- [Daily Divination] Alectromancy: divining by using cocks ( *giggles* this brings out the 5th grader in me)
- Did you see yesterday's Daily Divination? It was Tyromancy: divining by using cheese. Guess Limburger would yield some powerful soothsaying!
- Coming up in my next tweet, twit-fic! If you like this sort of flash-fiction medium, check out Thaumatrope on Twitter and is.gd/bJFf
- I lead the cop to a body--path so familiar--recalling murder in scattered scenes. A new violent surge; another victim forgotten. What am I?
- Tourbillion Vertical Watch--1,352 parts, driven by a 450 link chain & nickel silver drums, $275,000! A thing of beauty: is.gd/dmSB
- I hope tonight and tomorrow is filled with jubilant festivity for each and every twittery boy and girl. XOXO
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In today's Twitter post round-up:
- [Daily Divination] Tyromancy: divining by using cheese (for Jay_Lake). I am going to post one of these morsels daily; hope you enjoy them.
- Bibliophile fix this past weekend, 4 books: Mother Aegypt and Other Stories by Kage Baker, The Chains that You Refuse by Elizabeth Bear, etc
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In today's Twitter post round-up:
- Foxit, makers of great PDF software, are releasing an ebook reader: is.gd/cWnY better price than Kindle & Sony, same screen as Kindle
- Amazing sidewalk artist that specializes in realistic 3-D images: is.gd/cWpS - This is awesome, check it out!
- Doctor Who: The Whispering Gallery, One-Shot comic arriving in February, illustrated by Ben Templesmith! is.gd/cx88
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In today's Twitter post round-up:
- Snow, snow, snow, and more snow: it really sux right now. I feel trapped, and it is already so dark outside; thank you Solstice.
- The Valkyrie documentary (2008) on the History channel was quite informative. Gave me a controversial short story idea. To write it, or not?
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In today's Twitter post round-up:
- Don't you hate it when you love a band that will assure you an 80% ratio of ridicule from the rest of the world?
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