Bad films are good (well, some of them anyway)

In another example of extreme laziness I offer this video from Wisecrack.

Wire Magazine Answers Your Typo Questions

Here’s my latest blog post. Well, it’s not my post. It’s an article from Wired magazine about all of those embarrassing times that you published something and you read it a few weeks later and you cringed when you spotted the 20 typos that you should have picked up, but it’s too late, and now you have to reload it on Amazon and Smashwords, and it’s a big pain in the butt, and ruins your entire evening.

I’m not even going to copy the copy. Just click on the link and behold! Words and images appear in a new tab.

What's Up With That: Why It's So Hard to Catch Your Own Typos

Fanfic Writers...

This cartoon from Sarah’s Scribbles (@DoodleTimeSarah) on FB has been getting more than it’s fair share of shares.

Twitter Tweedle Dee

 The Writing Group suggested that Twitter was a good thing. I avoided it for thirteen years, which seemed sensible considering the occasional news items I’d read online. (Re: Twitter is a cesspool of horribleness. People suck. Avoid at all costs.) In addition to the dire warnings about humanity’s behavior and what happens when we’re allowed to use our opposable thumbs to type things on a keyboard, I had developed my own dark, weird, conspiracy theory about Twitter. (And Google, and Facebook.) They are responsible for global warming. Do you have any idea how big the server farms are to enable us to keep posting videos about babies, cats, and dogs doing cute things? And how much power they consume? The answer is a lot. A LOT.

Anyway, because the chances of me being proactive enough to write a unique Twitter entry are precisely zero, I have connected my blog to Twitter. Apparently WordPress will just send this entry here, to Twitter, way over there.

From there, I’ll see how long it takes before I lose complete interest. Wish me luck. And enjoy this video from Google that shows how big one data center is. Skip through to 2:04 so you can start saying, “Holy shirtballs. That’s big. Like really, really big.”

The History of the Horror Movie

 I am D. A. Howe, and I’m the world’s laziest blogger. Here’s another video from Wisecrack about how horror movies have evolved over time. I could have written an actual blog around similar themes (surrrreeeeeee), but why waste all that time when the Wisecrack channel does a much better job of it... (No, I am not a shill for Wisecrack.)

The Myth of the Tortured Artist

 A great video that digs into the reality of the tortured artist. Is it a thing? And if it’s a thing, is the ‘tortured’ artist more productive?

When Amazon Likes to Cheer Authors With Their Plummeting Rank

I’ve never hidden the fact that my Amazon rankings suck. A lot. But there are (I’m assuming) plenty of other people out there in the same boat. In an effort to cheer those people up (you know  who are you) here’s some heart warming screenshots of my latest numbers from Amazon.

Personally, I feel a certain pride in where I’m positioned in the competitive Amazon author space. Take that all you losers selling your books and your soul for actual money!

The first screenshot is my author ranking. It kind of looks like the ECG of a person who had a heart attack. Then they managed to shock the person back to life. However, the diet and exercise have only been partially effective.

And here’s my sales ranking. Which looks like a very scary overdraft. Or the grades of a university student who is probably not going back next semester and the parents are very angry and also, why did you choose to do medicine Kevin, when you have no aptitude for it? Whhhhyyyyyy?

Anyone else out there sinking into the quagmire of scarily large numbers? Leave a comment below because sharing is caring.