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I just finished 'The Raw Shark Texts' by Steven Hall. It's a thriller that's been described as a combination of The Matrix, Jaws, & The Da Vinci Code. It is very suspenseful and I recommend it to anyone who loves thrillers. For anyone who has read it, I have some questions because there were some things I was confused about. ( cut for SPOILERS ) |
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::EBSQ Art of the Day - Friday, July 25, 2008 "Waiting Players"Alan R Estes ::
EBSQ Art of the Day "Waiting Players" © by: Alan R Estes |
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Photoshop RULEZ
I dont think the pic of the doll is that awful. If you look in my profile some of the drawings and such I have done have been taken with a digital camera, and it was a SHITTY one. But with the right amount of light and some photoshopping...it's not gonna look bad, so why spend needless money. now granted picutres on flat peices of paper are quite different than 3 dimensional objects but if you move a little closer and zoom out a little it should work out pretty well. Even several pictures of different positions can be helpful. im no photo genius, but i am pretty crafty with the NOTHING that i have...so try it and see if it works!
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LONDON AFTER MIDNIGHT - Lost Horror Classic FOUND! (repost)
BREAKING NEWS! LONDON AFTER MIDNIGHT - Starring Lon Chaney Classic Horror Film LOST for decades FOUND!  You have read it right, the most notorious and sought after film in cinema history, the film that was thought lost forever in an MGM film vault fire decades ago...... LONDON AFTER MIDNIGHT starring Lon Chaney, has been found! And, it was found by the Horror Drunx own investigative journalist, SID TERROR! Read his exclusive article only at...  Here is a short excerpt:..
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Free Book - Bottomfeeder by Taras Grescoe Contest
I'm in the middle of reading Bottomfeeder: How to Eat Ethically in a World of Vanishing Seafood by Taras Grescoe and it  is fascinating. To celebrate this book and my blog's one-month anniversary, I'm having my first contest. It'll be a drawing for a "Make Waves!" prize pack, which will contain: - hardcover copy of Bottomfeeder: How to Eat Ethically in a World of Vanishing Seafood |
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Scanner help
Poppy, try putting a black cloth or shirt around what you are trying to scan (specifically your books) this should stop the funny streaks. Although I don't know if it will help with the "dolls" and skulls. |
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Girlfriend from hell the movie
Does anyone have a copy of this? preferably on dvd. My tape player ate up my copy :( I prefer to trade for it but I would buy it too if the price is real cheap. If your local even better im near los angeles. Thanks!
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Butcher, Jim: Storm Front
 Storm FrontWriter: Jim Butcher Genre: Urban Fantasy Pages: 322 So I finally got around to reading the ever-infamous debut of The Dresden Files. It's a good read, but it didn't grab me, and I think it's more due to fact it's just been built up so much that it was almost impossible for me to really sit down and relax with this sucker. That said, the book (series) is a staple in the urban fantasy genre, and I'm glad I read it. It's worth reading, hyped up or not. :) The premise: Harry Dresden is a wizard for hire. Only he lives in modern day Chicago, and no one takes him seriously. The ones who do are either crazy or simply don't trust him, even when they need his help. And he gets more than he can chew when the police call him in on a double-homicide, one committed with black magic. It wouldn't be so bad, if everyone around him didn't think he was the killer. The full review, with spoilers, can be found in my LJ. As always, comments and discussion are most welcome. REVIEW: Jim Butcher's STORM FRONT Happy Reading! :) |
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To eBay Or Not To eBay
I finally finished the possum-skull "voodoo" doll I've been working on for a couple of weeks now. It's the most detailed and, I think, nicest one I've ever made. However, maddeningly, it still isn't up for auction. While I like most things about my new all-in-one office machine (the Hewlett Packard OfficeJet 6310), its scanner leaves a lot to be desired. When I try to scan the drawings I do in copies of my books, the images often come out streaked with weird stripes of light that aren't present on the actual drawings. As for three-dimensional objects such as the doll, it cannot scan them at all. I know flatbed scanners aren't really meant to scan three-dimensional objects, but my old one did a pretty good job of it, e.g. this Little Blue Heron skull I found on our first post-K trip to the Mississippi Gulf Coast: Obviously, before I sell any more dolls or other hand-crafted items on eBay, I'm just going to have to bite the bullet and spring for a digital camera that can take decent closeups of small objects. My current antique -- a Vivitar Vivicam 3650 I bought in, I think, 2003 -- is remarkably forgiving of my poor photography skills when it comes to taking regular pictures, but its closeups are useless blurs. I know some of you have been waiting to see this doll, and I'm sorry about the delay. I'll try to upgrade my equipment soon. I did manage to put up some regular book-type auctions: a copy of [ETA: Since many of you are probably at least as sick of this subject as I am, I'll just say that yes, I know all the comments are gone from the Best of New Orleans thread about Chris' departure, and I'm sure it happened because somebody got his widdle designer briefs in a wad and went crying to management. I don't think it matters one way or the other; as far as we and most of Chris' regular customers are concerned, the Delachaise is toast.] |
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Banquet for the Damned by Adam L.G. Nevill (2004)
Musician Dante Shaw travels to Scotland's oldest university city, St Andrews, to work as a research assistant for a reclusive academic (who wrote a book on the occult that Dante would like to use as the basis for a concept album), but increasingly comes to believe that he has been lured there under false pretences. Meanwhile, some students in the city are experiencing night terrors -- and meeting gory ends at the hands of something soon afterwards. Then Dante starts to have bad dreams... I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It's such a smooth read (something I appreciated all the more because I was grappling at the same time with another book -- now abandoned -- which was a real chore), but it's not a slight one, far from it. Yes, there are gory passages, but they're only intermittent, and balanced out by the creeping atmosphere. And perhaps the greatest horror is nothing supernatural, but the way circumstances force Dante into committing a heinous act of his own. Banquet for the Damned was originally published as a limited edition hardback by PS Publishing. I was reading it in the new mass-market paperback edition, an edition I think the book very much deserves. |
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COMMUNION
 † To what lengths have you gone for someone's attention? † |
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Blasphemous Horrors: Day 058
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Elizabeth Bear: Blood and Iron
Wow! This one was really good! Basically it intertwines a lot of old creatures, fairy tales, werewolves, Arthurian mythos, and the modern world. The amazing thing is that it works so well. ( Read more... ) |
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Review - Fahrenheit 451; Ray Bradbury
Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury Fiction; Literature Read this for our book club meeting next weekend, and I think it’ll make for an awesome and lively conversation! This is Bradbury’s classic novella about an age in which firemen no longer extinguish fires but rather, start them, specifically by burning books. Guy Montag is a ‘fireman’ in this futuristic world, where the alarm goes off in the firehouse to alert firefighters not to a burning home – because all houses are fireproof now – but to the presence of a household containing books. ( Read more... ) |
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Review - Fahrenheit 451; Ray Bradbury
Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury Fiction; Classic Literature Read this for our book club meeting next weekend, and I think it’ll make for an awesome and lively conversation! This is Bradbury’s classic novella about an age in which firemen no longer extinguish fires but rather, start them, specifically by burning books. Guy Montag is a ‘fireman’ in this futuristic world, where the alarm goes off in the firehouse to alert firefighters not to a burning home – because all houses are fireproof now – but to the presence of a household containing books. ( Read more... ) |
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Gregory Maguire
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Training My Uber-Alpha
First I have some GREAT NEWS!!!!! Yesterday morning I signed a contract with Forbidden Publications (http://www.ForbiddenPublications.com). FP is the erotica publisher that will now be publishing my erotica novella series with Wynn and Noelle (the Rune Witch series) as ebooks. The first novella is called Sex Magick, and Bewitched at the Beach is the second novella in that series. There will be more paperwork to wade through, but as soon as the publication date is set for Sex Magick, I'll let you know. And when my new editor at FP is satisfied we have a final draft, I'll create a blog for Sex Magick so you can read the first chapter. Forbidden Publications is a wonderful publisher, and I'm thrilled FP will be publishing this really hot series of mine. Yup, I was doing a happy dance all day yesterday. *big smile* The cool thing about this ebook series is that each ebook is a tasty bite and really HOT (well, you'd expect that with Wynn, right? *wicked grin*). Each novella is only five chapters long, fifty pages or less, which means you don't need an expensive ebook machine to read them. These novellas can be purchased in a standard pdf format and quickly read on your computer, or printed out on your computer printer to read later. I love it when things are simple and easy, don't you? Of course if you have an ebook machine then you'll be happy to know FP offers a variety of ebooks formats to work on your ebook reader. Now for my Uber-Alpha husband. They say you can't teach old dogs new tricks. But I'm thinking: why not? My husband may be an old dog (his words, not mine), but that doesn't mean he can't learn new tricks, right? Especially when his young wife (I'm five years younger) stays as horny as a wild rabbit. So I've decided I'd like my cranky Uber-Alpha husband to be more affectionate to me in public. We hold hands sometimes when we are out, but that's usually because I grab his hand. And I'm always the one doing all the hugging and patting and stroking in public (which he eats up, BTW). Now I'm training him to do the same for me...with lots of grumbling on his part, as you can imagine (is the man an Uber-Alpha, or what?). But I'm making progress. In fact he actually put his arm around me when we were leaving a restaurant the other night. But I'll know I've reached my goal when he tries to sneak a feel in public (okay, I'm always doing that to him, and it makes him giggle). Wow, that would be something, wouldn't it? Of course, rather than giggle and bat his hand away, we all know I'd welcome it. In fact I might even jump him. I'm sure that's what he's afraid of. That exhibitionist streak of mine does come out at the oddest times. But, my, oh my, it's such fun! *naughty grin* xoxo Laura Stamps Author of Paranormal Romance and Erotica Novels http://www.LauraStamps.blogspot.com (to read excerpts from my novel series) http://laura-stamps8.livejournal.com (my naughty Author Blog/updated daily)
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George Romero is coming out to Australia, and i've been given a chance to ask him a question What question would you ask him if you had the chance? I cannot think of anything, so I need some ideas. |
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