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Jul 8, 2009 | rating: 9 | comments: 4
Ian M. Jul 19, 2009, 8:30pm EDT
Thanks, everyone. Layla, I had to look at the camera in the mirror to make it look like I was looking at the camera, when actually I was holding it.
Jul 15, 2009 | rating: 10 | comments: 2
Ian M. Jul 15, 2009, 7:51pm EDT

The poem sparks with attitude. I'll acknowledge here that you're an awesome pianist, whether this is really you or not. I especially like your work with Philip Glass and I can't imagine a better challenge in music than with a lot of the stuff you tackle. I seem to gravitate to some of your works without knowing at first that it's yours.
Jun 1, 2008 | rating: 10 | comments: 11
Ian M. Jul 9, 2009, 5:56pm EDT

You should really get into writing. I wrote a novel a while back, and I'm just no good at marketing it. In fact, marketing it to even agents is a real stress that is hard to bear. If you think you can write for a month and a half every morning through the afternoon, go for it. I did that one summer and I had well over 100,000 words, some of which I cut to get it back to acceptable length. It wouldn't hurt you to write down your life experiences as you just started to in this post, and come up with a genre you'd like writing. I'm sure more than one theme will surface out of all that. But to look back at the seventies, some underwritten era like that, I think is most important and you have a good start already. A lot of development going on around that time, and a glimpse of it through a family in difficult, though humorous moments, is great.

I like your writing already, to be honest.
May 6, 2009 | rating: 10 | comments: 306
Ian M. May 8, 2009, 6:53pm EDT
Thanks for the tip. Out of the handful that'll show up, it's probably worth going, but I'm just not in the frame of mind for "Oh I plummeted into some drinking and drugs and aquired scoliosis, among other things. How about you?"
May 6, 2009 | rating: 10 | comments: 306
Ian M. May 8, 2009, 6:08pm EDT
I'll note on top of Judi's statement about Querying and Child Birth (not at the same time) by saying Querying is like childbirth of the mind. It is like wanting to really jump out of our skins.

I haven't queried since autumn 08. Finally got the anticipated negative response weeks ago. I've turned into a gamer this past year so haven't been around much.

Not to mention my 10 year class reunion is this month, and I have a lot of aggression built up about it lately, when I'm stuck at home with the parents, and what the hell are they even now thinking of anything about me that came to them from someone else's mouth? We were good kids and all, but honestly I miss the teachers more.

Can you tell I'm not a social type?

Here's a project: I've got my birth chart with the houses and planets marked, even the house cusps. So, what I may do come next month or some day I can get away from the sims 2 to rediscover the graphic I made of the chart, I'll prioritize the most important to the least important aspects of my chart to come up with some things to do.

I know writing is important, but honestly, in the past three years it hasn't been eventful with agents who can be a support with all the junk they have to sort through. I have this idea or whatever that the amount of junk to cross their desks is mounting greater by the year.

Pony Shows come to mind. Oh and thanks be to God and other forces unknown that I didn't pay attention to the forums ever while in the amazon contest. They are straight up evil.
May 6, 2009 | rating: 10 | comments: 306
Ian M. May 8, 2009, 5:41pm EDT
What's this about Jennifer Lopez being in the top 100 in the Amazon Contest and no one on the forum speaking '"Look at me, Jennifer!?"' I don't get it. Am I wrong about this? This is a different Lopez?
Apr 26, 2009 | rating: 9 | comments: 311
Ian M. Apr 27, 2009, 5:03pm EDT
The movie Crash was a real human interest story. Not easy to come by those too often. Magnolia was over the top, and I kind of favor Crash over that one anymore. I'm not a movie watcher as much as before. Sometimes on the weekends we'll run movies all day downstairs, and if we feel like watching, we'll sit, get up for coffee, and leave the room, use the restroom or whatever, to see where the movie's at once we're back downstairs. People are really stuck on TV. It's freaky.
Apr 25, 2009 | rating: 10 | comments: 4
Ian M. Apr 27, 2009, 4:57pm EDT
Nice photos here, Antoine.
Aug 29, 2008 | rating: 9.6 | comments: 41
Ian M. Mar 12, 2009, 8:51am EDT
Awesome cover and review. I don't know if I can be excited and enthused at the same time, but quietly enthused may be just me. Wow, Judi. Your writing is the best I've read among many as far as personality, positivity, and a lot of other things go.
Feb 16, 2009 | rating: 9.9 | comments: 97
Ian M. Feb 17, 2009, 1:56pm EST
Well, I get the point of being humorous about it. I don't mind it so much even though it's odd compared to how I knew things growing up, but that's just me. And to argue for once that gay marriage doesn't have to be a big show, just like the lives gays live doesn't either, then I would say go ahead and let them have a private wedding and private lives, the same as anyone. Coming from a small town, it's just absurd. Logic about that kind of thing is relative from one person to another, and I don't care for either side at the moment. I've personally had an earful from the TV about gay marriage and the attitude that goes with talking about it - when it's the anchormen talking. I'd lead a TV boycott any day.
Jan 16, 2009 | rating: 10 | comments: 8
Ian M. Jan 16, 2009, 4:16pm EST
The camera got in the way when someone shot that photo.
Jan 15, 2009 | rating: 9.5 | comments: 28
Ian M. Jan 15, 2009, 7:37pm EST
Keep writing, Rima. You have many gifts.
Jan 15, 2009 | comments: 1
Ian M. Jan 15, 2009, 2:55pm EST
I was laughing a moment ago, because the first photo with you smiling seemed you were photographing yourself in front of the car accidents that must've been happening on that street of ice...Nice photo of you. The streets here in Nebraska do get icy. We had a school bus run into a semi on the roads a few nights ago, and for the first time I've known, kids were spending the night at school in another town south of here.
Jan 8, 2009 | rating: 10 | comments: 4
Ian M. Jan 9, 2009, 6:36pm EST
Sure, Lisa, if anyone's going to get good use out of those books, it'd be you, for sure, meaning you're a creative type. I can't say I'm used to the new Gather, but I did order up a new gift card from Borders. I had been away for months, except a few lines once in a while. It's not my thing to do anymore, and it occupies a lot of time if it was.
Jan 8, 2009 | rating: 8.9 | comments: 310
Ian M. Jan 9, 2009, 5:08pm EST
http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474977557517&nav=Namespace

Article alert! My first in months, and I thought any of you might be interested. No real plans for the book right now, except for one more run through before entering the Amazon Contest in Feb. If you guys weren't aware of the contest yet, go to www.amazon.com/abna
Apr 13, 2007 | rating: 8.2 | comments: 26
Ian M. Jan 9, 2009, 11:10am EST
I will mention that I saw this movie and went into some deep TMNT nostalgia. I've got the rom of a TMNT video game from Sega Genesis to listen to tunes or kick some butt, I've got a collection of action figures to wonder about, the TMNT PC game demo, with the full version arriving in the mail sometime soon, and I've been watching the opening episodes of the first season religiously. I was curious enough to get the first season of the new series, but it doesn't quite match up to the original, IMO.
Jan 8, 2009 | rating: 10 | comments: 4
Ian M. Jan 8, 2009, 5:36pm EST
Well, darnit, wouldn't you know the new Gather seems to not transfer links from text documents? I may or may not update this article so feel free to browse for those titles on Amazon for more information on prices, etc.
Jan 5, 2009 | rating: 8.8 | comments: 37
Ian M. Jan 7, 2009, 9:58pm EST
The End.
Jan 5, 2009 | rating: 8.8 | comments: 37
Ian M. Jan 5, 2009, 8:53pm EST
It's dishonest for us to take a survey without browsing the webpages first. Could you link us to that?
Dec 13, 2008 | comments: 3
Ian M. Dec 23, 2008, 12:43pm EST
Yeah, maybe the guy doesn't think in excess like Bush and his cronies.
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