Blast From The Past: 2008
Oct. 31st, 2014 11:12 am
Nightmare Wars, Dan'l and Clarity invented by me, artwork by "crow" of www.APForums.com for the latest "Acid Test".
Nightmare Wars, Dan'l and Clarity invented by me, artwork by "crow" of www.APForums.com for the latest "Acid Test".
Status report of sorts:
* Water pipes are back to normal and the shower drain has finally thawed out. Bathroom pipes are about 50% new now. Dad did all the work.
* After two shopping trips on behalf of sempai Mike, I'm too pooped to travel at the moment. Maybe a trip to Sevierville and Maryville tomorrow. Kentucky trip pencilled for Monday but that depends on my buddy there being available.
* Finished my side of writing the first issue of a miniseries submission to Antarctic. More about that later, tho' I'm sure if you surf my Archives you'll find out plenty on it anyway.
* Vic.com was wonky a part of the day. Connects went sour every so often. We got our monthly bill today. Coincidence?
* Water pipes are back to normal and the shower drain has finally thawed out. Bathroom pipes are about 50% new now. Dad did all the work.
* After two shopping trips on behalf of sempai Mike, I'm too pooped to travel at the moment. Maybe a trip to Sevierville and Maryville tomorrow. Kentucky trip pencilled for Monday but that depends on my buddy there being available.
* Finished my side of writing the first issue of a miniseries submission to Antarctic. More about that later, tho' I'm sure if you surf my Archives you'll find out plenty on it anyway.
* Vic.com was wonky a part of the day. Connects went sour every so often. We got our monthly bill today. Coincidence?
The Last Word On Halloween?
Oct. 31st, 2008 11:35 pmMy characters, an artist's fresh idea on how to use them.
Nightmare Wars, Dan'l and Clarity invented by me, artwork by "crow" of www.APForums.com for the latest "Acid Test".
Nightmare Wars, Dan'l and Clarity invented by me, artwork by "crow" of www.APForums.com for the latest "Acid Test".
Further Progress
Jan. 31st, 2008 02:01 am1) Proofing Mom's novella--DONE. She zaps it off to her publisher today.
2) Antarctic Press concept...next in the pipeline. Need to further refine the concept.
3) Magazine review for IPMS/USA...well, I'm waiting on something from THEM.
4) Gotta scan some stuff for my buddy in Knoxville. Which means rooting through boxes of old hoarded magazines. Not really looking forward to it, but I'm sure I'll get it done in the next week or so.
FP
2) Antarctic Press concept...next in the pipeline. Need to further refine the concept.
3) Magazine review for IPMS/USA...well, I'm waiting on something from THEM.
4) Gotta scan some stuff for my buddy in Knoxville. Which means rooting through boxes of old hoarded magazines. Not really looking forward to it, but I'm sure I'll get it done in the next week or so.
FP
Things to Do Today: Make Mind Up
Jan. 24th, 2008 02:27 amI have the prospect of writing a one-shot script for Antarctic Press, and I'm in the process of deciding which of my many story ideas is most worthy of this project. I've done a lot of them as Acid Tests, so they're available.
Again, my lack of artistic vision is haunting me. :/
FP
Again, my lack of artistic vision is haunting me. :/
FP
Freaky IE Stuff
Aug. 29th, 2006 12:53 amHey.
I was posting something in the Antarctic Press forums when suddenly I was somehow forced to log out--and couldn't log back in using IE (I could still log in with Netscape, but that's part of the "freaky") and at the same time my IE History was erased. Strangely, cookies I had for other sites worked as normal. I rely pretty heavily on History for much of my surfing habitage, so it actually caused me a lot of cursing and flailing.
Did a virus scan over Dead Hour and got a clean bill...but I should update my virus library just in case and scan again.
FP
PS: Whole thing was because my clock was messed with.
I was posting something in the Antarctic Press forums when suddenly I was somehow forced to log out--and couldn't log back in using IE (I could still log in with Netscape, but that's part of the "freaky") and at the same time my IE History was erased. Strangely, cookies I had for other sites worked as normal. I rely pretty heavily on History for much of my surfing habitage, so it actually caused me a lot of cursing and flailing.
Did a virus scan over Dead Hour and got a clean bill...but I should update my virus library just in case and scan again.
FP
PS: Whole thing was because my clock was messed with.
Weighing My Obsolescence
Jun. 4th, 2006 12:04 amHey.
Was looking through my old letters files lately. Found a critique that Antarctic Press editor Herb Mallette gave to some scripts and ideas I submitted back in the middle 1990s. Of course, the overall complaint about my work was the ideas were all too derivative of existing works. And of course, I had pacing problems...too much dialogue in one story, too much action in another, and so on.
Of the stories I submitted, I was told that one titled Peace Dividend: Woodland Camo had the most promise. Let me tell you about that one...
Peace Dividend was planned to be a set of stories, all concurrent to one another, with the same general theme: Advances in Military Technology, and attempts to use these advances to better society in general. At least, that was it on the surface. It was also to be the story of the last twelve months before a nuclear war destroys our civilization. Woodland Camo would have been a more personal story wrapped up in this larger saga.
The central character of Woodland Camo would be a teenage Asian-American girl named Sally. Because of her criminal record (habitual shoplifting), she was being "posted" to a youthful offenders' boot camp run by the U.S. Army. "Woodland Camo" was the name for the boot camp program; it was created by the Army as a way to boost activity at underutilized Army bases, and so doing protect them from the Pentagon Base Closure Commission.
What made this particular Woodland Camo operation special was the fact that the base was also testing new combat robots...and the youths would be working with these machines. I was going for a Patlabor-esque tone for this story...the machines would have been very similar in design and capabilities. "Heartbreak Ridge With Robots" was how I described the concept to my buddies.
It's actually a little bizarre seeing how I would have told the story of the future in 1995. By now, the Second Great Depression would have hit America--banks all over failing because of corporate fraud and the collapse of the credit system. Just as 2007 starts, Russia starts annexing its former Soviet neighbors again, the Saudi Kingdom is overthrown and replaced with a Baathist regime aligned with Iran and Syria, and Mainland China invades Taiwan. Cyberterrorism runs rampant and some states declare martial law to restore order. Midway through 2007, open war would be declared...the Woodland Camo kids would be summarily drafted and sent to the front lines. Three months later, nuclear Autumn. End of story.
I gave up on this story at the time I moved to Tennessee because I had more important problems...and I finally got onto the Internet.
There's a part of me that still wants to be proven wrong...that somehow we as a people can work out or problems and step back from the brink. But I have this awful suspicion that we're on a path from which there is no return.
FP
Was looking through my old letters files lately. Found a critique that Antarctic Press editor Herb Mallette gave to some scripts and ideas I submitted back in the middle 1990s. Of course, the overall complaint about my work was the ideas were all too derivative of existing works. And of course, I had pacing problems...too much dialogue in one story, too much action in another, and so on.
Of the stories I submitted, I was told that one titled Peace Dividend: Woodland Camo had the most promise. Let me tell you about that one...
Peace Dividend was planned to be a set of stories, all concurrent to one another, with the same general theme: Advances in Military Technology, and attempts to use these advances to better society in general. At least, that was it on the surface. It was also to be the story of the last twelve months before a nuclear war destroys our civilization. Woodland Camo would have been a more personal story wrapped up in this larger saga.
The central character of Woodland Camo would be a teenage Asian-American girl named Sally. Because of her criminal record (habitual shoplifting), she was being "posted" to a youthful offenders' boot camp run by the U.S. Army. "Woodland Camo" was the name for the boot camp program; it was created by the Army as a way to boost activity at underutilized Army bases, and so doing protect them from the Pentagon Base Closure Commission.
What made this particular Woodland Camo operation special was the fact that the base was also testing new combat robots...and the youths would be working with these machines. I was going for a Patlabor-esque tone for this story...the machines would have been very similar in design and capabilities. "Heartbreak Ridge With Robots" was how I described the concept to my buddies.
It's actually a little bizarre seeing how I would have told the story of the future in 1995. By now, the Second Great Depression would have hit America--banks all over failing because of corporate fraud and the collapse of the credit system. Just as 2007 starts, Russia starts annexing its former Soviet neighbors again, the Saudi Kingdom is overthrown and replaced with a Baathist regime aligned with Iran and Syria, and Mainland China invades Taiwan. Cyberterrorism runs rampant and some states declare martial law to restore order. Midway through 2007, open war would be declared...the Woodland Camo kids would be summarily drafted and sent to the front lines. Three months later, nuclear Autumn. End of story.
I gave up on this story at the time I moved to Tennessee because I had more important problems...and I finally got onto the Internet.
There's a part of me that still wants to be proven wrong...that somehow we as a people can work out or problems and step back from the brink. But I have this awful suspicion that we're on a path from which there is no return.
FP
Presented in Egorama
Apr. 2nd, 2006 12:11 am
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My mood was rescued when Ted Nomura (creator and artist of the Families of Altered Wars series at Antarctic Press) visited his series' forum at the AP website and answered a bunch of posts--including MINE!
Recognition is such a sweet thing.
Gawd, that's pathetic, isn't it?
FP
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Hey.
I, through a search of the Kenzerco Forum, just found out that I had been (post tense) nominated for a 2005 Kenzer Forum Award--but nobody told me about it! (I don't think anybody seconded my nomination, tho')
At least I got a Post of the Month Award and thus an elevation to Guru at the Antarctic Press official forum.
Sniff sniff...appreciation is such a wonderful thing.
FP (who cares more about competing than about winning)
I, through a search of the Kenzerco Forum, just found out that I had been (post tense) nominated for a 2005 Kenzer Forum Award--but nobody told me about it! (I don't think anybody seconded my nomination, tho')
At least I got a Post of the Month Award and thus an elevation to Guru at the Antarctic Press official forum.
Sniff sniff...appreciation is such a wonderful thing.
FP (who cares more about competing than about winning)
