Just a few things I need to point out. Minor things that have accumulated over time:
--A hearty THANK YOU (that's right, I shouted that out) to all 10 of my beta-readers. You guys rock! I owe you, big-time. I won't forget the kindness that you've been showing me the last week +.
--If you like a blog entry, or if you just want to help me out, please mention it on your media, or like it, or comment, or something. Any of that is supremely appreciated!
--I cannot accept comments from Anonymous. I have very good reasons for this. Commenting is really, really appreciated, but please leave your name or avatar (preferably, both), or I'll have to press DELETE when I go over the submitted comments.
--Please comment anytime, on any blog entry, even if it's not a contest. Your comments are very important to me, for many reasons!
--If you don't want to leave a comment, but want to say something or enter a contest, please feel free to email me--but not anonymously! (A surprising number prefer doing this.)
--Please remember that I have many blogs, the most important (to me, anyway) being this one and my published works blog. Please visit them! All of the tabs are above.
--I should read the blogs more of people who follow mine, read mine, add me to Google +, etc. When you comment, it's okay if you remind me of this. I'll get there, I promise. And I comment on anything I can for my friends / followers / readers, etc. because I know how important that is.
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Sunday, October 13, 2013
Blog News
Dear Readers,
In the next few days, I will try a massive (in terms of time, anyway) undertaking: two new blogs, maybe three. So in addition to this site and my sports blog (where I babble mostly about baseball, baseball cards, and the sports world at large), please look at my American Horror Story: Coven blog, and my Walking Dead 4 blog, both via Blogger. If they're not up when you check, please come back. I'll put up the American Horror Story: Coven blog first, since the season's first episode has already aired. Walking Dead 4's blog will go up tonight, or tomorrow--most likely tomorrow.
I may also start a blog, tentatively titled Steve's Sales, that will contain photos, descriptions and prices of things I want to sell. This would be via Blogger as well. So take a peek at that, when it's up, and let me know what strikes your fancy. Just send me an email at the address on the top of any of my blogs, and I'll get back to you ASAP.
As always, thanks for taking the time to peruse my meager scribblings. I hope my readers, friends and followers like what is to come.
Sincerely,
Steven E. Belanger
In the next few days, I will try a massive (in terms of time, anyway) undertaking: two new blogs, maybe three. So in addition to this site and my sports blog (where I babble mostly about baseball, baseball cards, and the sports world at large), please look at my American Horror Story: Coven blog, and my Walking Dead 4 blog, both via Blogger. If they're not up when you check, please come back. I'll put up the American Horror Story: Coven blog first, since the season's first episode has already aired. Walking Dead 4's blog will go up tonight, or tomorrow--most likely tomorrow.
I may also start a blog, tentatively titled Steve's Sales, that will contain photos, descriptions and prices of things I want to sell. This would be via Blogger as well. So take a peek at that, when it's up, and let me know what strikes your fancy. Just send me an email at the address on the top of any of my blogs, and I'll get back to you ASAP.
As always, thanks for taking the time to peruse my meager scribblings. I hope my readers, friends and followers like what is to come.
Sincerely,
Steven E. Belanger
Friday, August 30, 2013
Quick Jots--Syria, and This Crazy, Dangerous World
More thoughts that don't have the steam (or maybe I just don't) to be their own blog entries.
--Completed 200 pages of my novel manuscript, and we're rolling right along.
--Sox's text polls are actually advertisements for AT&T and for whatever options are available. For example, today's poll is for the fans to vote for their favorite non-Sox event at Fenway Park. Options are Picnic in the Park (happening soon), Frozen Fenway (advertised heavily throughout this game), concerts (several coming up) and...well, you get the idea. Each text is $.99 for AT&T, of course. So the sponsor makes out, and the Sox ownership, which also owns Fenway, makes out. A win-win. And they show which option leads by using percent scores, so an option that has 10% could have 100 of 1000 total votes--or 1 of 10 total votes.
--I'm looking forward to seeing Boardwalk Empire and The Following. What shows are you looking forward to?
--Just in the past two weeks, a 1 1/2 year old baby in a stroller, and a 1-year old baby in her babysitter's arms, have been shot dead, the latter yesterday in New Orleans. What the hell is going on? Defense exhibit 256,348 about why I mostly keep to myself and stay in my own cave. It's a crazy, dangerous world out there.
--And, oh yeah, an 88-year old World War II vet was beaten to death by two teenagers, one of whom said the old man was trying to cheat him on a crack deal. Camera footage clearly shows the youths beating the snot out of the old man, and does not show anything at all that would indicate a drug deal.
--Reading a good book slows down this very crazy world. Or, it seems that way to me.
--I've got a bet with a friend that Jerry Remy will return this year to NESN to broadcast games for the Sox. My friend says he'll never return, not even next year. I think, and hope, that he's wrong.
--The nighttime darkness falls like a heavy curtain now, at least in my neck of the woods.
--The latest iPhone commercial is yet another example of how most commercials are better without a set, typical script. Music and images that highlight the use of the product make great commercials.
--I don't know if striking Syria is what we wanna do. I say this while knowing admittedly nothing at all of the situation over there. But the latest I heard, the Syrian attack on its own civilians--while despicable, of course--have not been a danger to this country, and / or our allies. I suspect there's something that went on, or that has been threatened, that we don't know about, but we're spreading ourselves sort of thin already. Does Syria have WPDs, or has it threatened terrorist attacks here? If I'm severely out of line, or misinformed, please (nicely) let me know.
--I told someone today that horror movies don't scare me. The daily news, however, horrifies daily.
--Nice to know someone else famous felt the same way. From Robert Frost's "Desert Places" (and, whoa! As I type this, a car commercial's narrator says the phrase "the road less traveled." Scary symmetry, man...):
They cannot scare me with their empty spaces
Between stars–on stars where no human race is.
I have it in me so much nearer home
To scare myself with my own desert places.
(Me, again.) Is it me, or is Frost saying that the human race is the scariest thing in the universe?
--Completed 200 pages of my novel manuscript, and we're rolling right along.
--Sox's text polls are actually advertisements for AT&T and for whatever options are available. For example, today's poll is for the fans to vote for their favorite non-Sox event at Fenway Park. Options are Picnic in the Park (happening soon), Frozen Fenway (advertised heavily throughout this game), concerts (several coming up) and...well, you get the idea. Each text is $.99 for AT&T, of course. So the sponsor makes out, and the Sox ownership, which also owns Fenway, makes out. A win-win. And they show which option leads by using percent scores, so an option that has 10% could have 100 of 1000 total votes--or 1 of 10 total votes.
--I'm looking forward to seeing Boardwalk Empire and The Following. What shows are you looking forward to?
--Just in the past two weeks, a 1 1/2 year old baby in a stroller, and a 1-year old baby in her babysitter's arms, have been shot dead, the latter yesterday in New Orleans. What the hell is going on? Defense exhibit 256,348 about why I mostly keep to myself and stay in my own cave. It's a crazy, dangerous world out there.
--And, oh yeah, an 88-year old World War II vet was beaten to death by two teenagers, one of whom said the old man was trying to cheat him on a crack deal. Camera footage clearly shows the youths beating the snot out of the old man, and does not show anything at all that would indicate a drug deal.
--Reading a good book slows down this very crazy world. Or, it seems that way to me.
--I've got a bet with a friend that Jerry Remy will return this year to NESN to broadcast games for the Sox. My friend says he'll never return, not even next year. I think, and hope, that he's wrong.
--The nighttime darkness falls like a heavy curtain now, at least in my neck of the woods.
--The latest iPhone commercial is yet another example of how most commercials are better without a set, typical script. Music and images that highlight the use of the product make great commercials.
--I don't know if striking Syria is what we wanna do. I say this while knowing admittedly nothing at all of the situation over there. But the latest I heard, the Syrian attack on its own civilians--while despicable, of course--have not been a danger to this country, and / or our allies. I suspect there's something that went on, or that has been threatened, that we don't know about, but we're spreading ourselves sort of thin already. Does Syria have WPDs, or has it threatened terrorist attacks here? If I'm severely out of line, or misinformed, please (nicely) let me know.
--I told someone today that horror movies don't scare me. The daily news, however, horrifies daily.
--Nice to know someone else famous felt the same way. From Robert Frost's "Desert Places" (and, whoa! As I type this, a car commercial's narrator says the phrase "the road less traveled." Scary symmetry, man...):
They cannot scare me with their empty spaces
Between stars–on stars where no human race is.
I have it in me so much nearer home
To scare myself with my own desert places.
(Me, again.) Is it me, or is Frost saying that the human race is the scariest thing in the universe?
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