david_prophet

Happy Halloween everyone.

Just finished carving the pumpkin and putting the candy bowl by the front door. I'm nursing a bit of a hang-over despite barely drinking at the excellent costume party I attended last night. Many great costumes were observed by me, and my Ghostbusters outfit was well received. I even managed to chat up a very sexy female Ghostbuster. Some people are going...
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Greetings SG land,

Life has been VERY busy lately. Dealing with a publisher pre-launch of a first book requires a lot more legwork than one might expect. I'm sure I had a vague image of pounding out a novel and mailing it off and then, miraculously, months later, a completed hardcover would appear in the mail along with a big check. Apparently, it's a lot...
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Happy Apple iOS 4 day everyone!

Father's was beautiful in South Western Ontario. I had my father and sister in for dinner (we're a hamburger and hotdog kinda family) and Darwin loved having time to play with his older cousins.

Otherwise, I have been very busy and constantly on the move. I did finally break down and buy myself a spiffy iPad so that I...
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And his eyes have all the seeming of a
Demon that is dreaming,

And the lamp-light o'er him streaming
throws his shadow on the floor;

And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor
Shall be liftednevermore.

Standing on a precipice of pure math, gazing westward, out over the ocean of reason toward the very edge of knowledge. Across the expanse, a storm roils on the horizon, clouds of black fear lit with jagged-edged flashes of chaos. Pushed before the storm is a single point of brilliant white bobbing precariously on the angry tides. The vessel of hope that carries my future...
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Trent Reznor and his new wife have come together to form a new band called "How to Destroy Angels". The first single, "A Drowning" is amazing. Somewhere between NIN and Massive Attack, it bears Reznor's hallmark melancholy downtempo sound along with his ingenious use of heavy layering techniques - all of which serve to frame Mariqueen's whispery, beautiful, and haunting vocals. The song starts off...
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