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Pushing into the late evening of this Tuesday night past, the Internet suddenly got a little more stupid. Discouraged by some comments left on a website about his 2010 book purge, Harlan Ellison finally thumbed his nose at the ‘Net and switched off the pops and hisses of his antediluvian dial-up modem for the last time. He’s done with it, with you and with us. He bought the ticket, took the ride and hopped out of the spinning...
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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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It’s recently been brought to my attention that my schedule for posting Snowflakes In Autumn might be ill-advised. At twenty-five chapters in length, posting one chapter a week will take just over two years – and that’s a mighty long time. So, I may rework the schedule yet again and try to squeeze in more chapters each week, but I worry that the ocean of text in each post will scare the more jellyheaded and...
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There are many things in this world that want our souls, from demonic beasties prowling the nightmares of legend, all the way up the celestial ladder to the divine and back down again to the terrible pits of devils and fiends. Always the same, but the names change: God and Jesus. Satan and the Anti-Christ. Facebook and Apple… … Lately, there’s been a lot of talk burning through the fiber optic capillaries of the...
Read MoreYou might have heard by now that some schmuck calling himself J.D. California has written a sequel to The Catcher In The Rye – one of the seminal novels of the 20th century, the first and only published novel by J.D. Salinger, and a book that’s been banned and un-banned then re-banned more times and in more places than can be comfortably counted by the human mind. It’s the defining novel of teenage rebellion and angst, and...
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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.
