To preface this, you need to know that I locked my keys in my car about a week ago, and the AAA guy that came to get them out was FURIOUS at my ineptness, especially when it turned out the keys weren’t even in the car.
So I was on Blackberry Messenger with the same person I was on with when it happened last time.
Brian: Gah damn it I left my lights on now my battery is dead
Girl: Omg brian
Girl: You have so many car troubles
Brian: I swear I call AAA once a week lol
Girl: LOL
Brian: it’s not the car it’s me – just always in a hurry
Girl: Omg if that same guy some again
Girl: Comes
Brian: Lololol oh god it’s even more cold today
Girl: Lol forever
Brian: I will buy him this romance novel from borders
Brian: IMG00608.jpg ( 77.03KB )
Girl: LOLOL
Brian: I’m just like “sorry man I know it’s cold I got this for you”
Girl: “This should keep you warm at least a little”
Brian: Lol
Brian: Oh man it is cold out
Girl: : (
Brian: My hands have frostbite and no longer work
Girl: R u wearing shorts again
Girl: Oh no lol
Brian: LOL
Brian: Like my car won’t start and also I tripped on the curb and fell down and can’t get up lol
Girl: LOLOL
Brian: Nobody will help me lol
Girl: Lmao
Girl: Omg
Brian: I’m loling for real right in the middle of the store lol
Girl: Lol lol lol
Brian: Oh god the car just started now what lolol
Brian: He will get here and I won’t be lol
Girl: LOL SHUT UP
Brian: I will leave the book on the ground with a sorry note
Girl: Omg I’m dying
Girl: LOL
Girl: Horrible
Brian: Oh man I am glad I can share this with you
Girl: Lol omg me too brian
Brian: going to the gym – time to get big and strong!
What happens to all my BBM pals when the Google Phone takes hold of my life January 5th? Do you think I can still find ways to have mobile instant messaging fun?
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(The WSM? YouTube channel was finally approved a few days ago – go see how nice they look over there. Chapter 5 should be out late tonight.
Also, if this picture makes you laugh, we will probably get along great.)
I pride myself on being like famous Snoopy drawer Charles Schultz. He said that “writer’s block is for amateurs”.
Imagine my raw, savage shock when I read back this IM chat transcript that I was involved with. I’m the one labelled “Brian” – that’s like my IM alias or something.
Girl: What r u reading brian. Should I leave u alone lol
Brian: I am writing now
Girl: Ok
Brian: It is a book that I am writing
Girl: Sweet. How far along are you
Brian: I have three words left – just gotta think them up
Brian: Kinda stuck
Stinks, huh?
What should I do, and can you please finish my book for me? Just throw some three-word combos out there.
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I was doing a reformat on the Kindle version of Prelude to a Super Airplane over the weekend, and totally forgot there’s an amalgamated Twilight + Harry Potter series of novels that are part of the 19th subplot.
Anyway, Chapter 30 of PTSA was actually an excerpt from one of the books.
I thought this an apt time to post it here – if you’ve never read the Twilight books, sadly this is exactly what they’re written like. Everything after this sentence is lifted directly from my book.
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(I know this has nothing to do with airplanes, but I wanted to put it here, because I’m hoping if I put like a blurb on the cover, I can sell more copies of the book.
This is an excerpt from “Andreanna Marsupial and the New Moon’s Glow”, the fourth book in the Andreanna Marsupial saga. All material is copyright of the author, Stephenie Piperbraum, or however you say that correctly.)
CHAPTER 143 – THE END OF ACT 1
I wasn’t sure. I didn’t know if I should or not. The television was sitting there in front of me, and I’d been looking at it for several hours, debating whether to turn it on or not. My father, Lugustus, had bought the television many years ago – it was old now, but when he bought it, it was new.
[Like here is how to read the rest.]
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At the start of the movie, Brad is finishing the new cover for his book, which he did because he has his exciting ADD and wanted to make people confused.
The inside of the book was still the same, and like that was so the paparazzi would not go crazy?
Brad used inDesign.
So like then Brad looked at the 14,000 different formats he would need to re-create to make the eBook version of his excitement book widely available, and like that made him do his vomiting, and he cursed society again.
But Brad saw that now the Kindle software was available for PCs, and so that was a good thing that he liked to have happen, even though Kindle formatting robs him of all the exciting fonts that he likes so much, and that it was a somewhat archaic device the day it was released.
Brad right then like at that moment made a decision that until the Apple Tablet arrived and fixed society, he was only going to keep it simple and have his book only available in three ways: Paperback, PDF, and Kindle.
He also decided this would include any related books that he appeared in as a character, like Prelude to a Super Airplane.
(Brad also knew that he thought it was funny how the publisher was like, “Hey, do you know that you state this Brian Spaeth person is the author, but the cover misspells his name, and doesn’t even list him as the actual author?”
Brad was just like “LOL!! Hit that publish button BRO.”)
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(Here’s my original post on question mark abandonment – was this really all the way back in July.)
@iamboney and @trilby_dare called out my blatant and unapologetic use of a question mark on Twitter the other day.
Her response especially made me laugh, and that’s a thing that I like to do.
Let’s clear this up – I swing both ways now.
Sometimes I use question marks, and other times I don’t.
My reasoning is erratic at best, but it has to do with my next book, where I’m experimenting in question mark methodologies like no author in recent history.
When I’ve got it sorted out, I’ll let you know.
If I buy a doggie and give it to another doggie, and then buy the second doggie and it to the first one, then free them both, who owns who?
There were no receipts in this scenario.
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So here is some information:
1) My Mac is down for the count, which means I have a hot date with the Apple Store this afternoon. If they can’t immediately fix it, I’ll be like, “Oh man! C’mon, try again.”
2) This non-Mac-having is severely crippling, and pretty much couldn’t come at a worse time, considering the WSM? site is supposed to open tomorrow, and the first teaser is out next Tuesday.
3) I like to talk about my computer problems in a public forum, so that other people will have sympathy, and then like they will tell all their friends about how strong I am in the face of the ultimate adversity.
3a) I bought a houseboat over the weekend, and now I live on it with my hot new wife, who I just met. She was the one selling the houseboat, and I was like, “Hey, do you come with the houseboat – ” and then she was like, “Yes,” and then I was like, “Man, that seems like a weird deal – do all of the houseboats at this water vehicle store come with hot girls to marry – ” and she was like, “Yes.”
4)If you look in the sidebar there, you’ll notice I’ve written a new (free) book, and also provided a backdoor into the the WSM? site.
5) If this first technology crisis wasn’t bad enough, I was in the local T-Mobile Action Center over the weekend, and found out I’m not actually a free agent until JUNE. (I thought it was November.)
What’s the worst adversity you’ve ever faced, and on a scale of 1-10 (with 10 being “toughest”) how tough were you in the face of the adversity from the first part of the sentence.
Also, do you think if they renamed them T-Mobile Action Centers, that more people would switch to T-Mobile, and why or why not.
(Don’t forget the WSM? Facebook Page – it’s the only place you’ll be able to access the first teaser next Tuesday.)
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I was thinking about having a good cry the other day, and then because my actoring is a bit rusty, decided to wait, and not do that thing.
Instead, I made this list of actual pieces of commercial media and entertainment that have made me produce tears, be they sadness tears or happiness tears.
BOOKS:
Catcher in the Rye (Like when he catches the rye finally. I think it’s a metaphor -)
Of Mice and Men (When Lenny does his dying.)
MOVIES:
Armageddon (When BW’s friend who has the kid runs up to the kid when they get back to Earf.)
The Grapes of Wrath (The end.)
Wall-E – A couple times.
The Incredibles – When Dash finally lets loose in the jungle.
Team America – I literally was crying with laughing the first time “AMERICA – F–K YEAH!” played.
The Iron Giant – Twice.
Big Fish – the end.
Field of Dream – duh.
TV SHOWS:
Lost (End of last season – I was just overwhelmed in general at the end.)
MUSIC:
N/A
SPORTS:
Cavs (Too many to list – last time was when they finally got to the Finals – Game 6 vs Pistons in 07.)
Browns (First game back in Cleveland in 1999.)
Indians (When they got to the 95 World Series.)
BLOGS:
Both Teams Played Hard (Just now.)
I’m sure there are more – but this is all I can think of right now. I’m sure some music must have made me cry, but I dunno. What commercial fare has made you shed tears the most, and why do you think it did that.
(Go join the WSM? Facebook Page – it’ll be the only place to see the first teaser…on Sept 1.)
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Hey so I don’t read anymore because of my paranoia I didn’t tell you about, but I wanted to expose you to two books – one I have actual light involvement with, and the other I am el friends with the author.
The other book is by Dr. Natasha Valdez, who was an Associate Producer on WSM? with her life-pal (nay, husband) Charles Solomon, Jr. 
