Thus revealed, the creature buried its nose in the tire-tilled soil...
December 19, 2004
Guess what I was doing at midnight tonight!
Category: Miscellany

If you guessed "scrubbing toilets," you are rrrrright. Partial credit for "wishing you (meaning me) were dead and/or cursing your miserable existence," because up until I went into the bookstore this evening things had actually been going fairly well during the past couple of days.

There was a highlight, though. During my half hour break, I went over to the mall and ducked into Spencer's -- they're closing, so prices are slashed bigtime and I've been buying tons of crap from the store in recent weeks -- and had the privilege of being checked out by one of the most gorgeous girls I've ever seen. Like one of those girls who makes you say, "Guh!" because she's so bloody beautiful and then, "Bloody hell...!" as in, "Bloody hell, what just happened?!" because she's also so beautiful that the sight of her knocked you out of this plane of existence and momentarily sent your spirit someplace else. I don't exactly know where that place is, but I know that it's a happy place that smells of cookies and potpourri. The kind of place one never wants to leave. So, gorgeous girl who works at the Laurel Spencer's, if you ever stop by here, know that the dude who keeps buying the Hellraiser and Hellboy figures thinks that you're one of the prettiest creatures he's ever seen. OKAY!

Now, courtesy of Stefan, two really great Flash animations on Newgrounds: Hoy te amo and Renaissance (of the Insignificant).

Today will be a day for returning e-mails! And I should get the second part of the Christmas with Gumby review finished at some point, too. But for now... ja.

-posted by Wes | 3:21 am | Comments (0)
December 17, 2004
Today looks like it might be a good day!
Category: Miscellany

Assuming everything goes well, that is. I'm awake at this time of the morning, though, so things can't be entirely good. We'll see.  ðŸ˜›

Don't forget to read Part 1 of the Christmas with Gumby review!

-posted by Wes | 5:30 am | Comments (0)
December 16, 2004
I feel fucking great!
Category: Miscellany

I just woke up! Not having to get up at 5AM to go to work totally rules.

Scary-Crayon update coming soon! It's gonna rock! STAY TUNED!

-posted by Wes | 1:52 pm | Comments (0)
December 15, 2004
It's amazing...
Category: Miscellany

...how one minute you'll have a customer beaming at you and enthusiastically praising your customer service and then, the next minute, a customer will be snarling curses at you and swearing never to set foot in the store again until Hell freezes over.

-posted by Wes | 11:53 pm | Comments (0)
December 14, 2004
Slither slither slither slither went the tongue
Category: Miscellany

Wow. I know I've dissed Tom Wolfe on the site before and even mentioned him in How to write a 50,000 word novel in a month, but I had no idea just how bad I Am Charlotte Simmons was in this respect. I mean, I skimmed the novel at work and was left cringing, but the passages in this article just drive my point home in HARDCORE fashion. For all of the cheap tricks I used to squeeze 50,000 words out of my novel, I don't think I ever used the same word four times in succession. Bloody bloody bloody bloody hell. (more...)

-posted by Wes | 1:52 pm | Comments (0)