Over at The Price of Liberty, Mama Liberty has the first passages of what looks to become a new novel. And it all started with the comment section here at Living Freedom. So. Where’s the real “war on women”? This one could actually be killing some — and all in the name of progress and humanity. (H/T O) “How to send anonymous email without getting caught.” (Thanks to JG for the best article yet on this month’s hot privacy topic.) Alleged “private” enterprise is once again poised to help the fedgov become more obtrusive. Cannabis reform marches on. Whatever Mordor…
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And everybody awaiting “official” release of the anti-snitch book: Thanks to a helpful volunteer, I’ve just uploaded a Nook (epub) version of Rats! to the book’s site. Would you Nook owners kindly download and take a look at it? Once you tell me it looks okay, we’ll be ready to go live! Oh, and with a little help from another volunteer, the site now contains two HTML versions. One is “live” and lets you read the book online in a really nicely laid out web page. The other is a zip file you can download to host on your own…
On this day before yet another dismal, overhyped, mediocrity-promoting, statist-embracing, distinction-without-a-difference election … Happy V for Vendetta Day. I know what I’m watching tonight, how ’bout you?
Thanks to the efforts of a better geek than I, Rats!, the anti-snitch book is now online. But not quite ready to spread around. For one thing, we still need an epub version. Any volunteers? Anybody want to create that? I can send the .doc file or whatever else you need to work from. I don’t want to officially go live until we have all formats. UPDATE: an epub volunteer emailed me within minutes of this post going up. 🙂 People are good. I’d be grateful if you guys would go to the site and make sure everything looks and…
Well, in some places that was as bad as everybody thought it would be. Oy, that picture of seawater flooding into the PATH station — impressive. A lot of phony photos of Sandy have been circulating, though. I’m not sure this one of a Niagra of seawater flooding into the World Trade Center construction site is real; it’s credited to the AP, but there so much to sort out yet. Is anybody hereabouts planning to participate in National Novel Writing Month? I’m thinking about it, but the idea scares the bejabbers out of me. “The Island Where People Forget to…
Can you fix a scratched DVD with a banana? Inquiring minds want to know. Oleg Volk doesn’t approve of the fixation on great marksmanship. Life in Uruguay. I think I could get used to it. Always has kind of struck me as “Switzerland south,” but cheaper. The Flagstaff, AZ, cop who committed one of the most prolonged and barbaric puppycides has resigned. It may be news to the Wall Street Journal that overseas banks, including the famous Swiss banks are tossing American clients out with the trash. But some readers hereabouts know it all too well. From first-hand experience. At…
The “Preparedness Priorities” series will resume before Monday (already have two more in the works). But I’d like your opinion on something else, please. ADDED: Wow. Got some really good reader submissions! So I’ve removed the original two covers and my own first revision (since all have been thoroughly trounced by the Commentariat). I think the mockup by Keith Perkins and the sketch by Travis (below) are better than the best I did. The anti-snitch book is roaring along, thanks to Anonymous Layout Guy’s speedy work. These are the two potential cover designs (one inspired by a photo MJR sent,…
New short-story collection; really strange good Did you like David Young’s Shiver on the Sky? Well then, you’ll be glad to know that prolific S.O.B* … erm, author is already back with a short-story collection, What Happens in September… Just $.99 on Amazon. I read all seven of September’s tales in manuscript last week. Once again, David (now billed as David Haywood Young because every writer with a standard-sounding moniker needs a middle name) has produced something that’s both genre-bending (crime-fantasy-humor-SF fiction) and filled with life — even when its subject is bloody murder. If you buy (and better yet,…
So, did you go see it? Good, bad, indifferent? What did you think of the new cast? Are you pumped for Part III or sick of the whole thing? I won’t be seeing this one until it’s on DVD (not doing another six-hour round trip into so-called civilization, thank you). But I know some of you must have seen it last night or will see it soon. All reviews and mini-reviews welcome. If you don’t have a review of your own, got any good review links?
The snitch book (make that anti-snitch book) just came back from the Helpful Volunteer Proofreader. I just need to input his changes, send the doc back for one more eagle-eyeballing, then it’s off to layout. Now I’ve got a question for those who contributed. I originally intended to have an acknowledgment page crediting everybody (by nym, not name) who helped with the book. But virtually every person I’ve asked has said, “Don’t mention me!!!” So my plan is to make a general acknowledgement to the helpful Living Freedom Commentariat — and as a matter of fact, the commentariat is listed…