(Just recovered this munged old post, and thought I’d share): 13 Furnishings You’ll Never Find at IKEA: http://j.mp/5Cht4x
@johnklima is looking for previously published Science Fiction/Fantasy versions of fairy tales. Recommend them to him at: http://j.mp/pEjtu
natekenyon Buy PRIME during the Apex Cyber Monday sale–30% off all orders today only. Enter code CYBERMONDAY on checkout! http://tiny.cc/YiR14
@bruces “Robots for Animals”! Sounds like something you’d either see @nextnature http://www.nextnature.ne… or a protest sign in Futurama.
Fictionwise Welcome to Cyber Monday! Get 45% off MultiFormat Titles & 45% Micropay Rebates on all Secure Titles at http://www.fictionwise.c… Today ONLY
PopMatters Selling Out to Survive: We spoke with artists whose music has appeared in advertising to discover their motivation. http://bit.ly/8rU7Pz
New blog post: ‘Not Dead Yet: The Listmaniacal Archive’ at The Goreletter http://bit.ly/4JUKRz
Monroeville Zombies Holiday Party at the Mall (incl photos with Zombie Santa): http://www.monroevillezo…
Forgive the zombies, for they know not what they chew.
Blacker Saturday: today’s the day when shadows go soul shopping among the bankrupt and forlorn. Happy Holidays!
Finally saw new Star Trek. Feel old. Was won over when McCoy appeared. Blinded by lens flares in every shot. Wanted Scotty’s pal for a pet.
My funny new @amazon listmania: Titles that Make You do A Double-Take: http://j.mp/7jL5xc
LaphamsQuart Deja Vu Black Friday Special: The darkest days of the week, from Black Monday to Black Saturday. http://bit.ly/8Lu5VV
@poxypigtails Is it “Brainberry”… or “Brainbury”? Both are good. (One sounds more like a disturbing breakfast cereal to me, however).
RT @HorrorBlips Must watch: Sam Raimi Lost Film: ATTACK OF THE HELPING HAND #evildead http://bit.ly/8ih0DX
RT @VampireFaust (c/o @kindertrauma) Horror Movies For Thanksgiving! http://bit.ly/4ChXpG Gobble Bloody Gobble, all.
Contest Alert! Help celebrate my 20th Anniversary as a writer. Win rare Arnzenalia. DL Dec 13th. Info here: http://bit.ly/5hp71c
Pls RT Arnzen 20th Anniversary Contest Alert! Deadline Dec 13th. Photos of rare prizes and freebie links here: http://bit.ly/5hp71c
Just enjoyed Richard Howard’s “Ambient Morgue Music” at the great Weird Tales mag online: http://j.mp/8AYHXP
jkcoi Stephen King plans a sequel to the Shining. http://www.guardian.co.u…
It just occurred to me that Pat Benatar’s song “Hell is for Children” really must have traumatized her kids. On several levels.
The aliens in your computer do not wish to be disturbed. RT @NataniaBarron Autocorrect just made me lol: department stores –> depart torso
Domo, @kindertrauma. Domo.
Then again, there’s the movie ‘ThanksKilling’ @amazon: http://bit.ly/8UGNw5
Thanksgiving is that blessed time of year when we pause and reflect on the @eliroth holiday movie that could have been. Thx Grindhouse.
Glad to hear IFC films are now available via @netflix (who should also add @theauteurs please!).
The kindle update is exciting because the Kindle now reads pdf and rotates screen. See: http://bit.ly/7e4d98
@amazon release Kindle Software Updates http://bit.ly/7e4d98
Is gastroanatomeat a word? Because it should be.
Writers, Artists, & Writer-Artists: Consider joining me in The Fiction Proj@arthouseouse! http://arthousecoop.com/…
Black Friday. Black Hole. Coincidence?
Via @DeathRef: Discards http://bit.ly/5ILep2
LaphamsQuart “We dug up a corpse up with our hands…” @alexismadrigal Body snatching for science! http://bit.ly/7VYu1z
Try The Great Game — the illustrated story where you determine where author Tim Dedopulos takes the story: http://ghostwoods.com/gr…
mubi is now showing for free 3 wildly surreal Luis Buñuel films in the US, including the newly restored DEATH IN THE GARDEN: http://ow.ly/Fdus
The Boris Karloff Blogathon has kicked off to honor BK’s birthday (real, not reanimated): http://frankensteinia.bl…
EDLCNM…EDLCNM…Evil Demon Likes Cowriting Narrative Messages…nah. Couldn’t be….
Over time, I have worn the letters E D L C N M off my keyboard. I’m sure something inside me is trying to communicate this way. But what?
Toby Keith “wants to stick a boot up your ___.” And by the way: he’s gellin’. Contrary to popular belief, that does not help matters.
Pittsburgh’s been naughty (not nice). TWO Evil Santa films coming to town in a horror realm double feature: http://www.horrorrealmco…
RT @torforgeauthors @jeffvandermeer: Bizarro Fiction: Stout Hearts and Strong Stomachs http://bit.ly/7zgpJh
I would remiss if I didn’t remind you that my ‘rare stuff’ contest ends in a week! See this link for deets + RT: http://bit.ly/88Ov5j
What you call your crumpled up pillow case in the morning: snorigami.
Amazon.com Kindle Store Bestsellers in Sociology of Sports: Sportuary is #12! Hah! Take THAT Don King: http://bit.ly/89fuLZ
There were tentacles slickering in my sock drawer this morning. I laughed. None had managed to slide one on. Humans 1 : Nyarlots 0.
I suppose book rental is like a library, which I understand. Except that the site is profiting in a way that a library doesn’t. Harumph.
@cinriter Yeah, I saw a ‘book rental’ site yesterday (like Netflix for books)…Do folks realize we writers never see a dime of it?!
@adeniro That’s so funny… I thought the same exact thing first time I saw the Twilight book covers.
Time is running short to win rare Arnzen books, sounds, and art — easy! — see The Contestatorium in here: http://j.mp/88Ov5j
@PiaVeleno It never gets easier, really. Every text has to sell itself. Keep the faith that it will, just as you did when you wrote it.
@Poe71 the add you sent didn’t work, but http://johnftaylor.wordp… seemed to. I’ll try 2 post a comment there.
Changed my profile pic @arthouse to a FREAKY one…let me know if it works! http://www.arthousecoop….
Neat find: Vote for Best Cover of The Year and enter to win @amazon books! http://bit.ly/5aAnFy
Just now noticed that twitter asks “What’s happening?” … to which the answer is always “Hey, HEY, Hey!”
@RayGarton Who will replace Oprah? I recommend Tom Green from @tomgreenlive
@johnjosephadams LOL! <been there>
Any Sam Hazo fans out there? We are taking tax-deductible donations to the Sam Hazo Poetry Award at my college. DM me yr email for details.
I hope none of you are tweeting while driving. Because I have two words for you: “Look out!”
And so is my keyboard now, @RubyTombstone Your tweets are cracking me up.
@david_hewson We adore ‘em too - pretty amazing netbooks. But I haven’t been writing much on it…keyboard is a bit cramped. Mouse is pain.
Anyone know : Is it possible to report a twitter spammer without going to their profile?
@David_N_Wilson For the Scribner contest tweet! And also sundry advice. Glad I follow ya.
ScribnerBooks The two Steves - King and Spielberg - together at last http://tinyurl.com/ybyrh…
Gracias to @David_N_Wilson twitterererer extrrerraorerrdinairerrre!
RT @ScribnerBooks: TO WIN A MONSTER IN A BOX, signed by Ruth Rendell RT before 12noon on 11/20. You could be a winner!
Starbucks only had red Xmas blends in the whole bean aisle. I ask: “Got anything besides Xmas?” They hand me Thanksgiving. This is the USA.
@fangoriamag asks “Who’s making horror?” a) me; but, b) the devil made me do it; and, c) a deeper devil made HIM do it, ad infinitum.
I re-extend my invite to join me in The Fiction Project! Art+fiction experiment: http://www.arthousecoop….
Ebook tech trends parallel music’s shift from cd to mp3 AND TV’s change from b/w to color. But NY publshrs market books like Hollywood film.
JStevenYork Qualcomm shows ebook reader with color eInk and video playback, for projected 2010 release: http://bit.ly/3PLrDb
Flipbooks 15 Strange But Cool Contact Lenses http://is.gd/4hoAv #CheckItOuT!
Gratitude to @BrianKeene And thx @poxypigtails for rec’ing Dahl’s “The Wonderful Life of Henry Sugar” (favorite genre fiction blood clot!)
RT @PopMatters ‘Port of Call’ is Nicolas Cage’s most unleashed http://bit.ly/3WRIW9 <-“Shoot him again! His soul is still dancing!”
There is nothing more remarkable than a blood clot. It gives hope. It seals. Except when there is nothing to heal. Then it’s a terrorist.
Mailing out the first batch of the Goreletter’s free froggie bookplates — http://j.mp/1jKtCN — tomorrow. Plenty still left before 12.1.09!
That IS funny @JaneFriedman! Especially if “John” is a vascular surgeon. :-) But srsly: good advice tonight. Thanx for tweeting it!
But if Harlequin is getting so desperate for profit, we all better look out!
@amergina Ah…I see now. I thought it was a digital arm. Thanks for clearing it up. I think the RWA is making the right (bold!) call.
@amergina Isn’t a fear of losing profits to ebooks (self-pub’d) behind their move? Maybe I’m misunderstanding why they’re doing it.
RT @PiaVeleno @merrileefaber: RWA revokes Harlequin’s recognized publisher status http://bit.ly/111Bfg <-borne of ebook panic
@nan_russell Nice “Twecklers” link! It’s funny (and sometimes said) how adults can regress to playground antics sometimes, no?
You have to see the comments and photos on this “Laptop Steering Wheel Desk” page on amazon…you will LAUGH!: http://bit.ly/3OXAzL
More details on The Fiction Project: Coming Soon. I dare you to join me! http://bit.ly/1NLxoo
@arthouse The Fiction Project http://bit.ly/3ipZXM will build the Brooklyn Art Library’s collection. <—I’m doing this. Join me. #nanowrimo
I’m taking “The Fiction Project” sketchbook challenge at Arthouse Coop. JOIN ME!: http://www.arthousecoop….
Hold that thought. Squeeze it. Let the idea squirt between your fingers. Make it scream. Don’t let go. Till it’s silent. Then release.
ZilchEbooks Amazon's Kindle arrives in Canada http://bit.ly/1FouKi
Recommend pseudonym for satanic #nanowrimo authors: Omir Wonan
Gracias, @wdprescott. I don’t know what to say, except to quote Cronenberg: “Long live the new flesh!”
Cool. Check out the “cyborg limited edition” of Tomasula’s VAS on the Chiasmus Books website: http://www.chiasmusmedia…
@Tweet_Shrieks LOL…that is for the VERRRYY limited edition bookplate!
Review any Arnzen title at Amazon.com; gets contest entry + free sgnd bookplates for early entrants! http://bit.ly/2WSb7p
Hopeful Machines : ‘Electronica for Sociopaths’ by author/artist/musician Steve Archer: http://www.hopefulmachin…
Google Books announces ‘breakthrough moment’ on their site: http://books.google.com/…
Roku, you ignorant slut. The entire history of SNL now seem to be streaming live on @netflix: http://www.thenowhereman…
Hosted “Strange Animation” event on campus today: Richter’s Vormittagspuk, Swankmajer’s Dimensions of Dialogue, Hertzfeldt’s Meaning of Life
RT @unbridledbooks @markarayner: Does anyone know of a podcast that accepts submissions of original fiction? <-pseudopod.org = horror
SPORTUARY my twisted treatment of athletics: now available on the Amazon Kindle for $2.49 http://bit.ly/W1Ucm (or FREE via gorelets.com!)
Choose Your Own Adventure books-interactive on the Kindle! Ironically: one is called “Lost in the Amazon”! http://bit.ly/44OQVb
Indeed, @JohnUrbancik. And others. Is it profoundly ironic that the least used button on my kybd is the one that reads “Pause|Break”?
I have written umpteentrillion words in my lifetime. Yet I see there are buttons on my keyboard I have never pressed.
RT @AMachen @HowardLovecraft The Contrarian: Eldritch Musicks preorder. http://bit.ly/1E9SzD <-I ordered it!
Just Spotted @jeffvandermeer’s ‘Last Drink Bird Head: A Flash Fiction Antho’ on @amazon: http://bit.ly/4zIh16
RT @ebertchicago Martin Scorsese’s personal list of the Top 11 Horror Films of All Time. http://j.mp/2AfcFX
Damascene: 1) of or relating to city of Damascus; 2) what I do when I revise my manuscripts.
RT @inkyelbows New #NaNowrimo comic: All’s Fair http://bit.ly/4ke1jG <-I like the witch comic on this page a lot.
Prosthetic limbs feel Phantom Plastic Vat Syndrome.
@Poe71 what’s your blog address?
A Parable: God listens to all tweets in the universe simultaneously. Until he discovers lists. His first list is titled ‘damned’…
I think all greeting cards should say “Psyche!” on the back.
#underwhelmingrock Where I Lay My Head is a Pillow
#underwhelmingrock I Can’t Drive Twenty-Five
Back in Mauve #underwhelmingrock
I’m excited — ‘Head in Flames’ by Lance Olsen is now available! http://bit.ly/cDXCu
I think I’ve got my blogs showing up better on a mobile device. Try http://www.gorelets.com/… or /uncanny to check it out!
Good to see you @CindieGeddes!
RT @bluearthredshoe “@MikeArnzen is a frighteningly clever writer, an engaging…” Thanks 4 the rec 4 @MrTweet! http://tinyurl.com/yl6ap…
@Poe71 “The best place to purchase Arnzen books?” <- I’d say @amazon http://bit.ly/1wb2DR +rare ones @horrormall http://www.horror-mall.c…
Writers tip: you really should give Gila Queen’s Guide to Markets a try http://gilaqueen.us/ #nanowrimo #writing
LOL @CinemaSuicide and @shooya
@nextnature’s post makes me wonder how weird the world would be if kids played with parental-aged dolls http://bit.ly/30zhVL
I contend that it is the term “the” that makes Friday the 13th so scary. Thus, I propose Halloween be renamed The Thirty-first.
@CinemaSuicide There is no mood that ‘Immigrant Song’ can’t transform.
@bluearthredshoe What’s really funny is that @DennysGrandSlam is now following me. I think Hazel works there. Awesome. Hungry.
Wow, you really took the pancake and ran with it…bravo. RT @bluearthredshoe And So I Did! http://bit.ly/L9hF
How to Read Your Free Ebook From The Goreletter… http://bit.ly/3gS6sd
I love that cluster of books @CargoCultPress! @docbrite @eastonellis Jim Thompson and Ramsey Campbell — maybe Fowles too. Edgy group!
Clown Flu. I love it @JeremyCShipp. Ha1N1.
@jimsissy “The Anti-Pancake”! (Beware: it bears the Number of the Yeast!)
@troilee Congrats on Borderlands Camp! That’s great…Winter, FPW, Tom…everyone there is a blast…and very wise! Enjoy every morsel!
@bluearthredshoe What a great bizarro way to start a story! Go for it.
@jimsissy It’s always suspenseful when there’s pancakes in the room.
@bluearthredshoe That was weirdly fun. I was cackling at the end. Thanks for the bizarre collaboration!
RT @JeremyCShipp Alrighty—2 signed copies of CURSED left. If you’d like one, here’s your chance: http://tinyurl.com/pa8vrj
That was for @troilee!
RT @bluearthredshoe PANCAKES bled ON her PASTY tray FULL stream FROM above HER severed DUODENUM!
The suspense is killing me :-)
RT @bluearthredshoe PANCAKES bled ON her PASTY tray FULL stream FROM above HER
RT @bluearthredshoe PANCAKES bled ON her PASTY tray FULL stream FROM…
@Dathar Maybe! Thanks for the collaboration.
@Dathar Hazel’s Pancake Pockets. Now available in your frozen food aisle.
LOL @Dathar! Sounds linty.
RT @Dathar: Try this: Add a word and RT until this tweet is maxed: PANCAKES are FALLING from WAITRESS Hazel’s APRON pockets ONTO
RT @bluearthredshoe PANCAKES bled ON her PASTY tray FULL
RT @Dathar Try this: Add a word and RT until this tweet is maxed: PANCAKES are FALLING from WAITRESS Hazel’s APRON
@benitorcorral We’re like-minded! Too many books play it too safe…books need to be transgressive.
Next! RT @BlackDogNate @MikeArnzen Try this: Add a word and RT until this tweet is maxed: PANCAKES cascaded INTO…
Next! RT @Dathar @MikeArnzen: Try this: Add a word and RT until this tweet is maxed: PANCAKES are FALLING from WAITRESS
Next! RT @MikeArnzen @bluearthredshoe: Try this: Add a word and RT until this tweet is maxed: PANCAKES bled ON her PASTY
RT @Dathar Try this: Add a word and RT until this tweet is maxed: PANCAKES are FALLING…
RT @bluearthredshoe: Try this: Add a word and RT until this tweet is maxed: PANCAKES BLED ON…
Try this: Add a word and RT until this tweet is maxed: PANCAKES…
Publishers: more books like Chuck P’s Haunted and @docbrite ‘s Exquisite Corpse please.
Grave Oddities Seeking the Coma Babies #titletale
Murky Wetbones Grin Across a Pile of Pirate Dust #titletale
A Stable of Weird Demon Children Commit Blood-curdling Unnatural Acts #titletale
The Bird is The Key to the Art of Creating Survivor Secrets #titletale
Go to your bookshelf. Draw an imaginary line between words on spines down the row. See if you can make a curious sentence. #titletale
RT @philandsarah Just added installation pics from @RealCliveBarker ‘s exhibition which is now up and running: http://bit.ly/2C6GCe
RT @OneNightStanzas @JFDerry Bacteria write the shortest poems. <-“Noses are Red, Violets Achoo”
Kindle Daily Nation tells us what the new Kindle for PC app can and can’t do: http://bit.ly/21gMRV
@MikeBrendan Okay, I’ll stop now. I just got a mental image of Andy Rooney getting his neck pureed.
lol @MikeBrendan! Why do we call them chainsaws? I can’t remember the last time I sawed a chain with one… and did you ever wonder…
@MikeBrendan Ever wonder why they call it a baseball bat? When I bat my eyelashes, what do they hit? My eyeballs? And did you ever wonder…
I’m in an Andy Rooney state of mind. This will become annoying to my friends and coworkers today.
Why do we call computer math tables “spreadsheets” and not “tablecloths”?
If we call autobiographies “memoirs,” why don’t we call biographies “themoirs”?
RT @Fictionwise “Big promo coming next week…” <- IT’S HERE! http://bit.ly/2zufCU Yet another awesome deal; works w/Kindle2.
Right on. Proverbs for Monsters is back in stock @horrormall They’ve got the B*fight and Dying in store too. http://j.mp/fXxNv
@digitalred93 I know how you feel. I’m told the KindleDX does PDF (but it’s $200 more than the standard K2).
Listening to “Slum Creeper” by Calla http://bit.ly/4iz3TE The band is cooking up a new site w/solo project for Valle http://j.mp/upZJc
Thanks for the poetry prompt @baffled!
@bidfire Amazon Kindle DX my guesses: 16.60, 19.20, 12.55, 14.25
@digitalred93 Kindle can add notes, though not as user friendly as one would like (pc app is making this easier). Can’t do PDFs directly.:-(
You might like the Alpha Workshop for young writers — Holly Black, Timothy Zahn, Tamora Pierce, Mike Arnzen — http://j.mp/1OxPA0
RT @digitalred93 E Book reader product matrix ~ http://bit.ly/1E4XYh Thanks to @steveoleolson <-Insightful! Kindle2 holds it own, I think.
Build a shopping list of outrageously inappropriate gifts that would be horrifying if they weren’t so funny. http://bit.ly/3c432D
RT @LizardTwits @Journeywoman LAPTOP of the future. Very cool! http://bit.ly/ifbGO <-And…we’re back to scrolls again! :-)
Right on. Kindle for PC now available. Allows you to read Kindle ebooks on your computer. http://bit.ly/3AJSvd
RT @simonschuster @ScribnerBooks DOME DAY. #stephenking giveaways. The snippets at http://bit.ly/22OprM entice me to read it.
“Lobes Light”: zombies drink home brew / straight from the slippery tap / of esophagus #zombiehaiku #beerhaiku
“The Nature of My Game”: I core my apple / recalling Adam and Eve / and replant the seed. #HaikuChallenge @baffled
@matociquala Looks like you’ll need to commit adverbicide.
RT @ChrisTwitery @baffled #HaikuChallenge: any haiku you like, as long as it has the word ‘core’ in it. http://tumblr.com/xfk3yc…
It is freaky to listen to novels from the French Decadent movement using the text-to-speech function on your Kindle.
@Poe71 Hah, thnx for laughing to tears about my post. I was, too…but the tears became sort of real. + @LaMaupin : right on the $.
Finished posting Listmania! lists @amazon for the crazy books reviewed in the Goreletter over the past 7 years: http://bit.ly/mDcZC
Want it weird and well-written? Check out ‘Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars’ by Cody Goodfellow @amazon http://bit.ly/2VHPR2
I enjoy @shitmydadsays a LOT but the TV deals should be going to @shitgoodwriterswritewithathemeandplotandstuff
RT @Flipbooks @TheLiveFeed: Twitter’s ‘Sh*t My Dad Says’ gets TV deal http://bit.ly/4mtxZr <-Someone alert Abe Vigoda’s agent asap!
Just in case you missed the second batch: MORE Twisted Prompts for #NaNoWriMo #nano http://bit.ly/47jY1w
@Sidney_Williams Grover would be cool. Didn’t like the “Big Bird legs” alone on google the other day. I imagined he was hanging!
“Lansdale & Datlow & Arnzen, Oh my!” New Tachyon Pubs @horrormall Get my rare chapbook “Dying” signed http://bit.ly/Zlm2J
It’s now been a generation since the Berlin Wall fell. Soviet Communism is dead. Germans thrive. And the Scorpions are now geezer metal.
I like “the Count” sesame street vampire image on Google today. He should eat those numbers.
Fortune cookie msg says “Learn Chinese: ‘Disease’.” Why? What on earth did I eat?!?
#worldsthinnestbooks CLIFF’S NOTES TO CLIFF’S NOTES, by Cliff (Abridged Edition)
@JeremyCShipp Enjoyed the interview. Good luck with transforming the moon!
You are so right about readings, @bizarromagazine CM3’s “Brutally Evil” show is an unforgettable riot!
New Listmania: Books Reviewed in the Goreletter (part one 2002-4): http://bit.ly/2MBcBl
