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It’s Tuesday, which means Coquetting Tarradiddles is back to its regular posting schedule. I apologize for all the confusion while I got my feet wet with my first experiment in the serialization of my novel, Snowflakes In Autumn, but things should go smoother from here on in. I’m wrestling a bit with the Donate / Contribute / Whatever button right now as I try and persuade the demons chained to the walls of the PayPal basement...
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Hello, kiddies. This is my first essay since I started posting Snowflakes In Autumn, so I probably have a lot to say. However, I’m going to keep things relatively brief today before we move on to the last two installments of Chapter Two later in the week. My days of late have been filled mostly with work, writing and party planning for Trey’s 4th birthday extravaganza. Due to his unwavering adoration of all things Super Mario,...
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Living with a toddler has the peculiar effect of altering one’s perspective on the outside world in much the same way as I imagine a fistful of LSD might in the hands of a tie-dyed True Believer, for whom the reality of the really real world is but a thin and illusory veil just waiting to be penetrated and ripped apart through the wonders of modern pharmacology…or, as it turns out, by the keen and curious intellect of a...
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I spent the weekend locked in a self-imposed quarantine along with fellow sickos Brittany and Trey. The funny part is, I’m fairly certain that I would not have contracted this dreaded plague had it not been for The Boy. Normally, I avoid the Infected like they were the shuffling, shambling hordes of soulless undead inching towards me in a unholy hunger for my brains. However, the cuteness that is Trey rendered my usual defenses moot,...
Read MoreI’ll start things off today with a couple of quick announcements. The April 15th edition of the Carnival of Education is out today and is hosted over at joannejacobs.com, where she’s kindly featured my “Wacky Wednesday” essay. In other news, The 35th Humanist Symposium is up over at psychodiva.blogspot.com, and describes my “They’ll Poison Our Asses” entry as both weird and wonderful. Take a minute...
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Kristian Bland
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Occasional Geek
I'm a former Webmaster turned Journalist turned Systems Administrator. I once thought I could recreate Spider-Man's web fluid, but only ended up staining the driveway of my friend's parents when some of it spilled out and went runny. Eventually, I became a caustic tech geek, which I'm pretty sure inspired the character of Dr. Gregory House, although the bastards never credited me. Later in life, I'd go on to have a horrific experience in publishing that I don't talk about, except to talk about how I don't talk about it. Later still, I became a web editor and columnist for a Hearst newspaper, where I excelled at being Me until my entire department was unceremoniously laid off. After that, I spent about six months being pretty busy not being busy. It sucked. Then, after missing the light of my radiant glory casting its warmth upon the newsroom for long enough, the paper called me up and asked me back. So I went back. And then I left again. And here we are.
