My computer is gone forever =(..I lost all of my pictures, files, and songs..funny my phone just erased everyones number a week ago too!! I feel like I’m on survivor..can I work and stay in contact with everyone with no computer or phone numbers!! =) If I know you send me your number …Electronic problems!! Boo!! Drop me an e-mail if you have any recommendations as to what type of computer I should buy next..the last was a dell..it was pretty phenominal for a while and then started having problems in the last year….luckily I have awesome friends who let me use their computers!! Below are a couple of the pages from Splat Magazine. I’m also on the cover…you can find it on newstands now..Hot chicks and paintball guns!! Nothing like it!!

WE HAD A BLAST OUT THERE.
THANKS SO MUCH FOR TO EVERYBODY WHO CAME OUT TO CELEBRATE OUR FIRST TOUR OUT OF NORTH AMERICA.
THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT FINALLY GRANTED JEWELS HIS PASSPORT.
AND IT ONLY TOOK FOUR YEARS!
SO NOW WE’RE COMING TO A COUNTRY NEAR YOU.
THESE PHOTOS ARE STILLS FROM MIKE SIMONETTI’S PIXEL VISION VIDEOS OF THE TRIP.

THE CLUBS.
THE FESTIVALS.
THE PARTIES.
THE RECORDS.
THE FOOD.
THE FRIENDS.
THE AIRPORTS.
THE HOTELS.
THE SKY.
THE WATER.
THE AIR.
THE CANDY.
THE MUSIC.
WE COULD GET USED TO THIS.
WE LOVE YOU!

XOXO

G/L/A/S/S/C/A/N/D/Y A.K.A HUSTLETOWN GLOBETROTTERS

When it rains I can’t help but want to obsessively listen to Rain by Tones on Tail.

I’ve been experimenting with writing style and structure as of late. I really enjoy doing all of the exercises from the following books.
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What if? by Anne Bernays & Pamela Painter
Spunk & Bite by Arthur Plotnik
On Writing Well by William Zinsser
Yoga for the Brain by Cheryl Miller Thurston
The Art of Fiction by John Gardner (recommended by Bob Fisher writer of Wedding Crashers)
Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss (recommended by NY Times Bestselling author Jen Lancaster)
The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr. & E.B. White
Story Structure Architect by Victoria Schmidt, Ph.D.
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I’m going to do the following exercise over several blog posts…hopefully within the week. This exercise was taken from the book What if? from page 31.

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Choose a central dramatic incident from your life.

Write about it in first person, and then write about it in third person (or try second person!). Write separate versions from the point of view of each character in the incident.

Have it happen to someone ten or twenty years older or younger than yourself.

Stage it in another country or in a radically different setting.

Use the skeleton of the plot for a whole different set of emotional reactions.

Use the visceral emotions from the experience for a whole different story line.

THE OBJECTIVE:

To become more fluent in translating emotions and facts from truth to fiction. To help you see the components of a dramatic situation as eminently elastic and capable of transformation. To allow your fiction to take on its own life, to determine what happens and why in an artful way that is organic to the story itself. As Virginia Woolf said, “There must be great freedom from reality”.

So…I’m going to try to do this daily but I’m going out of town and I can’t promise. I’d love to see what you come up with. Please post it by blog, not email.

BUY “What if?” by Anne Bernays & Pamela Painter

French inspired short film about a woman scorned by love . . .

 I went to the dollar store the other day and passed by the silly cheap school supply section.  I was inspired by the flimsy posterboard to take up a little art project.  So I bought a couple sheets, some glue sticks and a packet of paster paper and started planning out my project.

Now admittedly, my plans were a blatant rip-off of some art I had seen at the Seattle Center several years ago, but I really liked it and I guess that excuses my actions.

my project:  a cherry blossom tree made out of cut/ripped paper.

sketch

I sketched out my idea of the finished image, an absurdly twisted rendition of a tree trunk and branches w/ blossoms.

transfer design…

I then roughly sketched the design onto my piece of poster board.
I shredded pieces of browd paper and started gluing them to my posterboard in the shape of the trunk.↓

I then cut out several small pink circles (some I cut into the shape of the blossoms that they will all eventually be) and planned out where I wanted them to be when I finish.↓

That’s as far as I got. I hadplans to do a background scenery out of cut paper as well, but was kind of blocked.  I soon realized taht I probably should have planned out a background before creating my tree.  Live and learn.  Maybe I’ll do some watercolor-like additions, but that would ruin the cut paper theme.  I wish I had some very sheer pnk tissue paper, but it’s not likely to happen.  I may take my tracing paper and give it a slight pink wash.

anywhoooo… this is the status update, as promised.
future updates wil be forthcoming, unless I flake out and forget about this project.

Check out these two smug little know-it-all pricks. They really think they’re the shit, don’t they? Mr. Significant Eyewear and his Boy Band Member sidekick. Well they weren’t looking so cool and tough when we had them out back in a holding pen at the Palo Alto store, trust me. Thirty seconds with one of Moshe’s former Sayeret Matkal commandos and they were like blobs of jelly, sitting there crying and shivering and hugging each other and calling for their mommies. Chubbo actually peed his pants. Ha! Take that, Mr. No Pubes.

Little back story here. These two idiots and some of their friends were in the Palo Alto store and started downloading crapware onto an iPhone (see here) and generally being a pack of little pricks. If you’ve been in one of our stores lately you know exactly the kind of dickheads I’m talking about. Wisecracks to the staff, generally being a pack of little know-it-all wannabe Kevin Mitnicks.

So our security squad chased them down the street and detained them, subjected them to a bit of enhanced interrogation, tasered them a bit and then photographed them and warned them to stay out of Apple stores. (Little secret. You know how to scare the shit out of these little careerist kids from Palo Alto? Tell him you’re going to press charges and now he’ll have a criminal record and now he won’t get into college.)

Anyway this is all part of a larger plan (Operation Restore Order) that we’ve put into place to try to rid our stores of these packs of obnoxious teenagers who are loitering in our stores downloading music and screwing around with their Facebook pages and annoying the crap out of the staff and the other customers.

Now the spoiled little pricks are crying to the press. Boo hoo. We took their photos and distributed them to Apple stores worldwide to add to our list of people who aren’t allowed in the store. According to our legal team (the same ones who exonerated me on the options backdating stuff) the Geneva Conventions do not apply to bratty little rich kids from Palo Alto because they’re enemy combatants. Therefore they can be detained at will and held for as long as we’d like without charges being brought. Nice, right? FWIW, Borg employees are also classified as enemy combatants and subject to the same enhanced interrogation techniques. I don’t want to sound glib about this because the truth is we’ve made a very big effort to review all of our procedures and we’re totally confident that all of Moshe’s methodologies are perfectly legal, even the extreme ones.

I know some of you Apple faithful might be a bit concerned about this stuff and it might even make you a bit wary of going into an Apple store for fear of being detained. Sure, you can deal with being ignored by sales reps and condescended to by the geniuses; you can deal with the sneers and sniggers and the little wisecracks about what a frigtard you are. But detained and held?

Well, all I can say is that by entering the store you are agreeing to allow us to do whatever we want to you. It’s right in the user agreement. On the other hand, as long as you behave yourself and do as you’re told, everything will be cool.

I am a member of a group blog named GBE- “Group Blogging Experience”. This week’s topic is Annoyances. My regular readers know that to ask me to blog on something annoying is nothing if not redundant. I don’t tend to do warm and fuzzy blogs. I was once told that, to be successful, one must find one’s strengths and capitalize on them. My strength is the ability to take any situation that peeves or annoys me and tear it down with such malicious ferocity that its unborn babies deform and miscarry. Because this blog is being posted in such a way that attracts people who are not my usual readership, I’ll throw in moments of warm and fuzzy to soften the sharp blow. (Is everybody cool with bunnies?)

I was sitting here, what was it?  Wednesday!  And I heard a huge BOOMING CRASH outside of my apartment.  So I got up and went to the window, half expecting to see a car in the trees or something.  Instead I saw the ass end of a semi dragging the wire coming out of my building.  I looked at my TV, it was all blue.  The truck ripped out the cable!  I threw up my fist (really I did) and shouted “My cable you bastard!”

Then I realized the webpage I clicked wasn’t loading up.  And I had been disconnected from Yahoo Messenger.  I checked my connection.  It said I was connected, displayed my IP address, in fact it appeared to be working just fine.  But I was not on the Internet.  That damn truck ripped out the phone wire too.  I shrieked, “My Internet!  DAMN YOU!”  (Seriously, I was flipping my titties, I was pissed.)

But thanks to Jerid spending a million years on the phone with Verizon, they came out today and it’s fixed.  :)  I
Guitar Hero is coming out for Nintendo DS and I’m totally fucking getting it.  They have music from OK Go, Nirvana, and No Doubt.  It better be one of No Doubt’s good songs.  For reals.

Well I’m off to bed.  It’s late and I have get up so I can go to the scrapbooking convention in downtown Buffalo in the morning!  Yay!

Nighty night, lovelies!

-Miss Destiny-

P.S.  While searching for my “currently reading” item, I noticed that Amber and Blood is out now!  How did I miss that?  I also noticed, looking at my bookshelf, that I don’t have the first two in that trilogy, though I know I read them.  I’m slacking!  (Note to publishers, work on getting the set out so I can get them all!)  I need to get reaquainted with my DragonLance books. 

“Someone once told me that time was a predator that stalked us all our lives, but I rather believe that time is a companion that goes with us on a  journey, reminds us to cherish each moment, because it will never come again…”