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The 366 Days of Blogging Hell
Gentle Readers,
It is just after midnight on January, 29th, 2012, my 58th birthday. As I promised a few weeks ago, I now start a leap year (366 days) of daily posts here and twice weekly posts on the fiction blog. However, since I set a goal of 500 posts on this blog, that will mean somewhat more than once a day posts. You might see 4-5 Doclopedia posts a day for awhile, then only one a day for a bit. After my shoulder operation on March 7th, there won’t be any posts for a couple of days.
Note that that’s just Doclopedia posts I’m counting, so with a few rants or other posts each month, I should be closer to 600 here. The fiction blog may see more than two posts a week, but don’t count on it.
I apologize in advance for any crazed gibbering I may do on Facebook or Twitter come about October or so. Please just smile and nod and forgive me my descent into madness. Grace, Lucy, Winker and Sasha: I love you and I hope I don’t turn into too big a bastard.
I thank you in advance for comments on either or both blogs. They will mean a lot to me, at least before the hallucinations set in.
And now, the first of many Doclopedia entries on the topic of The Alphabet, which I did last year. This year though, I’ll do more than one post per letter.
Again, thank you.
Your Humble Narrator
PS: My annual fictional convention trip report will appear here, not on the fiction blog, come early August
The Doclopedia #396
The Alphabet, Again: A is for…Agent A
Agent A, whose real name was never revealed, was the hero in a series of bestselling spy novels on the Earth where most people are cowardly wimps. Actually, even the daring and bold people on that Earth are pretty wimpy. I mean, a guy who waits until the first rain to put up his storm windows is considered a reckless fool.
Anyway, Agent A had thrilling adventures in which he drove over the speed limit, raised his voice in a surly manner to the villains (who were armed with sharp objects and stuff that might permanently stain your clothing), ate food from other regions of the country and had sexual intercourse with women he hardly knew! The books (16 novels and 3 collections of short stories) sold in the millions. The series of movies based upon them (Doctor No Thank You was the first) made even more money. Starting in 2014, the plots of the movies became original works. Tomorrow Probably Won’t Die was the first of these.
After The Change Came: Series 2
Sin And The Magical New Year
I’m drunk. Very very drunk. This is, in fact, the umpteenth time I’ve been drunk in the last 24 hours. See, Doc…who is a devious Yankee scalawag…had been hanging out with Wizard Bongo Longo and Wizard Suzy Creamcheese (who cannot be all bad if she got her name from Zappa) and I don’t know how many other Wizards and they all said “let’s celebrate New Year’s all the way around the world!”. And so about 500 people showed up at Washington Square in San Francisco and we were off to some island in the Pacific with food and booze and music and about two hours until midnight.
After that, it was rinse and repeat in each time zone and on various islands & continents. When the assembled crowd got too blitzed, POOF!, magic sobered us all up. Pretty cool, really. And the food and music are wonderful. Different type of music in each zone. This zone, it’s Celtic Punk. I hear that next zone will be Old School Country & Western. In the zone with Vegas, it’ll be all Rat Pack. Cool.
Did I mention that we can change our outfits instantly? I am wearing Edith Head just now and looking like I’m waiting for Mr. DeMille to shoot the next scene. Grace is wearing some incredibly sexy toga thing and even at her advanced stage of pregnancy looks like a million bucks. Avis is looking good, too. She has on a red dress and naughty shoes.
Doc has changed bandanas for each time zone, which is the best we can hope for from him.
I think Roscoe might have changed his earring, but Gigi has gone through a dozen bows and a few necklaces
I must go now. Sobriety and the next zone are moments away and there will be young honeys to ring in the year with. Thank goodness for magic or all this ringing would wear out my bell:)
More bloggage after a couple days sleep.
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