[Naked City Atlanta - Glory] Brandy Is Real

Everything is better in Terra.  I know that sounds like a mere pipe dream but you have to understand that I've spent quite a bit of time in your world helping TC write the crap that he produces and slowly building my own reputation in my world.  I know the difference between my world and yours; and sure, there are a lot of things you have that we don't, but thanks to being part of a story instead of just telling them and thinking about other worlds, we've had some key moments that keep us from being total dumbasses.

I mean, for example, we elected President Hamburger; total dumbass, totally corrupt, total chimp of a human being.  But he wasn't Bush.

And Trump?

I'm laughing at the superior story world.  Seriously.  I mean what the hell were you people thinking? Sure, not all of you support him, in fact most of you don't but you all know hipster douches who think they're above politics or both sides are the same.  Seriously? I mean, if you can't tell the difference between Republicans and Democrats, you can't tell the difference between Creme brule and Dog shit.

Oh, I know.  Its not my world and I shouldn't interfere.  Look, we have the Whigs and the Progressives.  Whigs still lie like rugs, and are isolationist fruitloops but they acknowledge man made climate change.  In fact we put up a solar shade to help regulate climate change ten years ago.  Carbon cap and trade? Done.  We're not as high tech as you in some areas but...whatever.

This was not meant to turn into a rant; it is just so quirky to me how much of a link there is between our worlds.  For example, that song about Brandy being a fine wife but not marrying the dumbass who was married to the sea?

Not so much a dumbass in a world of fairies and vampires and magic.  That sailor's name was Plank Deadleton; and Brandy is a real person.  I met her when I went up to Vermont on a research expidition for Blingermeyer back in the day.   Plank really had married the sea.  Well, he married a Nereid who was an actual daughter of Neptune so practically same difference.  So, first of all, by all accounts they really loved each other, but at the same time, have you ever dealt with an angry Nereid? Psycho bitches from hell they are, just one step removed from Harpies which only a fool fucks with.

But Plank did want Brandy.  They had a single tryst, and you remember that line from the song, "The Sea in all her Raging Glory"?  Glory is his daughter.  So when the Nereid came one day when the little girl was 10 to try and have a Reckoning, Glory caused the pipes in the bar to burst as she summoned all the water in a one mile radius and spat that bitch back into the sea.

Glory is not someone you want to fuck with.

Last I checked, Glory is 25 years old, and involved in some secret government spook squad helping to keep fairies and the old powers in check, but she works for them because she wants to, not because she has been black mailed like so many others who work for them.  If they knew about me, I'd probably be shanghaid at some point. Astral projection is a highly valuable skill.

Anyway, until later.

Title for Seventh Novel - Zlekwelrkjrlwer werlwekrjwelrkjwerlwekrwe rwelrkjwerlwkejrwlrjwerl

Made as 20 second joke about Search Engine Optimization and about how hard finding my novel Grenademan vs the Zombies is.

So of course that MUST be the actual title of my seventh (and possibly final) novel.

As a side note, Julia bit the bullet and is reading raw/only spell checked Heliotrope and likes it.

I mean...she is biased, but still.

Something.

Zlekwelrkjrlwer werlwekrjwelrkjwerlwekrwe rwelrkjwerlwkejrwlrjwerl

[Heliotrope] The Null of Null Island

It is tempting to write nothing about Null Island.

Give in to temptation.

OK.

Dry spell

There will be the occasionally skipped week folks.  I'm in a period where writing of any kind is difficult but be assured I will almost always finish a project I start which means at least the current script and at least once a week updates for all the crap that needs to go into heliotrope, and mondays are just fun.

We'll see if I can start the research for the non fic book, maybe even this week.  September at the least.

https://blogs.loc.gov/maps/2016/04/the-geographical-oddity-of-null-island/

[Poem] Whither the Wind Blows Not

Whither the Wind Blows Not
by Emmit Other

I am of a mind to sail against the current
The stars above me fixed 
In my gnat's view of time
Though swirling in chaos
Relative to themselves.

When a thing is right
You sail to that star
To be who you choose to be
Not because it is convenient
Not because it makes you popular
But because to do otherwise
Makes you less of what you choose to be in life
You are alone on this journey
Locked in your starmeat skull
Shared hearts, shared minds
At till the now, not shared thoughts
Save those pale words we jabber
With flapping jaws and unreliable imperfect ears
I remember standing on the mountain
Waving the flag of summons like the fool I was
Only to be justifiably ignored by thousands
I am not what I was
Naive in different ways
The past left by a much needed slap
By our lady of endearing pragmatism
Lead ingot dropped in silken glove
But in an upside down entropic world
We must fix on something
To find any degree of Truth worth finding
And I believe in it
And work for it
And thus sail counter to the waves
I know the folly
But I do so of choice
Of who I choose to be
Not of fear
But of love
And there can be no better reason for anything than this
This is why we live
If we choose to embrace it as such.

[Writing] Brainstorming Story ideas by Blog

Going to do 5 of the 8 remaining ten commandments...note that these are flash fiction ideas, so its got to fit into a 1000 words or so....

So far I have done three, thou shalt not kill, and honor father/mother (got me 3)

Keep the Sabbath Day Holy - Orbital Microwave satilite fries people who don't stay in their houses.  A man really wants his most recent magazine issue B+

Thou Shall Not Bear False Witness - Nature starts killing climate deniers.  The world is a better place.  Man tries to murder via getting his neighboor to deny climate change. B+

That Shalt Not Covet: A vain woman starts to use magic to steal body parts from other women and graft them onto herself A-

Thou Shalt Have No God Before Me - A man has folded himself ala time (been done) but he is super narcisistic and permits none of 'him' to fall in love, but one does and he tries to keep it secret. C+

Thou Shalt Not Steal - Robin Hood of Dreams.  A man steals from the creatively rich in a future where creativity is everything and wealth and stupid boring meth people live like paupers....until he gives them stolen dreams. A+

Thou Shalt Not Bear False Idols - Bobble Heads with Laser Eyes. B

Don't take the name of the Lord in Vain: Woman having sex gets an answer from God, who is annoyed.  Woman asks uncomfortable questions. B+

Don't Do Adultry: Debbie Does Dunkin Donuts.  Sex through donuts.  C-

Yeah looks like I got my five.


Listening to this while I think

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4SVRbkRBoM