My stepdaughter Erin clued me in to this site, which includes, for example, this anonymous post:

Today, I went on a date with a guy for the first time. We went to Starbucks and got coffee. We talked for awhile, and we weere joking and having a good time. Suddenly, he put his hand on my stomach and said, “soon, this will be plump with my seed.”

I am laughing at a lot of this even as I’m thinking, “I’ve begun to see Facebook status messages that approximate some of this.” Are we all getting a little too relaxed?

In addition to the title track from their forthcoming CD, The Church have included a couple of Shriek CD tracks on their MySpace page: Aan Tribal War and Incident on Bannerville.

Despite this prior post, I’m warming to Monitter. Not because I want to monitor anything on Twitter, but because it’s ripe for experimentation.

Experiment #1:

>>within 10 miles of Warren Ellis

>>search terms–
“blood nest”
“pouring out of my neck”
“marshmellow pocketbook”

As I work on Booklife this afternoon, I will periodically check in and see if any of this stuff is within 10 miles of Warren Ellis on Twitter…

Just a few choice ones:

Clarions to Reduce Weeks, Team Up with SyFy, and Engage in Cage Fighting (see Kelly Link swear like sailor) - by a certain squid…

Mashups, Including My Forthcoming War and Peace/Alien-Pred Novel (and more fool linkage in the sidebar)

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Here’s a podcast of my story “Secret Life,” which includes a section called “Mimic” that’s a personal favorite of mine.

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Thrilled to hear Kirsten has sold her 10k “The Heart of the Mouse” to Subterranean Magazine. A new story from her is always a major event.

(”crit pit meat” slogan from student angela slatter)

I recently assisted Matt Staggs with an interview with Clarion South’s founders, Robert Hoge and Kate Eltham, that’s now up at Tor.com. Go check it out.

Clarion South is currently having a fund drive to over unexpected costs. You can donate to this worthy cause at this link.

Here’s one of mine. What’s yours?
Jeff

…this time on taboos in the field.

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As he continues to work on “converting” The Situation into image, Eric Orchard’s been posting some examples from his efforts–including the detail above. Check out his blog over the next few months for more.