These two books arrived in the post within a week or so of each other, and are welcome additions to my brag shelf at home. Both of these are reprint anthologies, with the added cool bonus that in both books, I get to share a TOC with fellow Writers of the Future winner Ian McHugh, as well as many other awesome folks. Have already devoured most of the Year’s Best and it’s a solid collection of stories, including Paul Haine’s amazing dystopia “Wives”.
Year’s Best Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy Vol 5 contains “for want of a jesusman” (from Aurealis #42)
Award Winning Australian Writing 2010 contains “Busking” (from Midnight Echo #3)
For the first time I played around with the statistics tools for this website, just to see what’s been going on there. It’s interesting to see how many folks are dropping by to read about my various adventures in My Writery Life, even if many of them are spam robots/agents of Skynet. Amongst the number of visitors, locations read from etc, there’s an interesting section that shows just what search terms have brought them to the site.
Today’s creepiest one? “Marisol Nichols feet”. Someone really wants to see photos of this poor lady’s trotters, possibly Quentin Tarantino. Good luck on your foot-fetish quest, oh random weirdo!
Not seen in photo: feet.
Still, I seem to remember Lee Battersby got a driveby viewing of his blog based on the search term “Billie Piper’s Nipples.” And now, that person will also come here. Just go and hire Secret Diary of a Call Girl, you sick freaks. Better yet, use your one-handed typing skills for good, not evil.
In other news, I recently ploughed through the first two seasons of True Blood. I quite enjoyed the show, even when it got a bit soap-operaish and everyone-roots-everyone. I have to say that my favourite character by far is Jason Stackhouse, he’s so stupid that he simply transcends intelligence, and you gotta love his enthusiasm. Furthermore, a spoof of this show ended up on Sesame Street, titled “True Mud”. Vampire porn on Sesame Street? HOW?!?
I’ve kinda neglected the blogging a bit lately – call it a spurt of professionalism, in that I only wanted to blog Things Of Note and not just pollute my new site with rubbish jokes, pictures of stupid stuff I found funny, and all of the crimes against humour that I committed on my old Livejournal site since 2007 or so. I tend now to email this stuff to a select few and spare the greater world my special brand of spam 🙂
Still, I’ve rethought this approach, particularly as my parents even read this to find out what’s going on and I’ve been more or less silent, barring some writing-related news. There seems to be a cast-iron infallible belief amongst many aspirant writers that, above all else, you have to be professional at all times, and conduct yourself with perfect decorum in your online life, and most definitely in person when you are at cons or what have you.
