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Hey kiddies, it's the husband again.

Mary Anne is working on wrapping up Duke of Eden for all of you who are lusting for some closure on that serial, so blogging duties have fallen on me once again.

Let me pull out and dust off something I wrote back on December 10, 2003. It was not quite the height of the Hate Bush II movement, since it was still his first term, but the Left and their allies in the news media outlets were getting fired up with anti-war rhetoric and hypocritical hatred of Dubya.

Now with the Libya operations, there has been a strange turnaround with the rhetoric. You too can be prepared to predict these turnarounds (among many other trends) if you simply memorize the guide to television news I wrote over 7 years ago:

...continue reading "Helpful Guide to Network Television News"

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Hello my chitterlings, it's the Mad Fat Guy, updating the blog while the Crazy Duck Lady keeps chugging on the last installment of The Duke of Eden, among other duties.

I just wanted to draw your attention once again to the fact that Mary Anne's faerie romances are now available as an e-book bundle. When you purchase these 3 books in her Forever series, you're getting one of them for FREE!

The bundle is now available for your Kindle, and we've recently uploaded it to Smashwords where it soon will be ready for download. I've added the bundle to our sidebar on the right and, of course, to the book list page. As other sales venues open up to our bundle, I will be updating that page so keep watching.

And for those of you who've already purchased one or more of Mary Anne's books, THANK YOU! We hope to see more of you in the near future.

Fat Guy out.

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Hi boys and girls, it's the husband again. Mary Anne is busy on other writing. I don't know how she manages to generate so many words, but I do have to deal with the strain it puts on her wrists. "Honey, rub my arms again." Yes dear. Rubbing her arms is a labor of love, much like the labor she puts into her books.

So please allow me to regale you with a tale of an epiphany I had a few days ago.

I was talking with our youngest boy (who loves to talk - not converse, mind you, but talk, as in making noise with his mouth) and I was at my old man best. I was telling him about things he'd never seen in regards to the extended family, because we haven't visited a lot of them.

One of the phenomena he'd never encountered was the "other" living room. I know this is a widespread thing, because I've heard comedians do entire routines on it, and they get laughs every time they talk about it. You don't make people laugh by telling them things they can't relate to.

I've had a few relatives, usually little old aunts, with two living rooms in their houses. One was the "real" living room, where everybody was welcome and would sit and drink coffee, shoot the breeze, and watch TV.

The "other" living room is cordoned off from everybody. It's the one where the sofa and all the upholstered chairs are wrapped tight in that weird bumpy see-through vinyl, all the tables are polished to a high gloss, the rugs have fringe that is straightened and parallel, and all the lamps have lace doilies underneath them.

...continue reading "The Other Living Room"

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It's the male again, pinch-hitting for Mary Anne who is in emotional turmoil after seeing our oldest son off to Orlando once again.

Thinking about our sons and our relationships with them made me appreciate a recent news story and its ties with universal and timeless themes woven throughout humanity's broad narrative tapestry much more.

No matter what else you think about the Bible, it can't be denied that it has been the most influentual piece of literature in mankind's short history. Its myriad stories collectively cover most (if not all) of Polti's 36 plots, and Jesus's teaching via parables allows even those of us who are mentally dense (read: me!) to access deep philosophical concepts.

The parable that is most applicable to Ted Williams, who was the "homeless man with the golden voice", is the parable of the prodigal son.

Initially, Mr. Williams' story didn't intrigue me that much, though it warmed my heart a little. All I had seen was this video (also embedded below), which went viral a few days after its debut.

From the news coverage afterwards, I knew Mr. Williams had given himself over to alcohol, drugs, and crime in the past, and had been sober for awhile but had been reduced to begging on the road, and had some job offers after being (re)discovered. It was good to hear, especially in this economy, that someone so down on his luck and trying to scramble back up from a difficult position in his life was able to get back on his feet again.

...continue reading "Compelling Stories – The Prodigal Son’s Redemption"

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Hello kiddies, the irritated corpulent male here.

I decided to "geek out" on you fools. You see, I've had the Linux itch for a few years now, ever since I assembled a desktop computer out of spare parts for my parents and wanted to avoid paying for another copy of Windows XP. I had heard about Ubuntu being the easiest variant of Linux to install, and that it also resembled Windows the most.

So I tried to bust into the world of open source operating systems. Ubuntu installed easily enough, recognized most of the hardware with one exception - the modem.

My parents had (and still have) dial-up Internet access. They live so far out in the woods that the Deliverance Banjo Boy keeps telling them that they need to move closer to town. And if there's nothing else to know about Ubuntu, there's the fact that it requires a broadband Internet connection to accomplish anything with it, and that IT'S A HELL OF LOT MORE COMPLICATED THAN WINDOWS!

So it was a no-go for my parents, but I vowed that I would have my vengeance on little Billy Gates, oh yes. Vengeance. Raging, fist-shaking, snorting and drooling nerd vengeance.

At last, today, I have my fat geek vengeance. I have resurrected a laptop from that great computer graveyard - our garage - and now its undead carcass is stumbling around on the Internet with a dark, unholy free operating system powering its formerly lifeless appendages.

...continue reading "AOFM-MWU – Geeking Out – Linux"

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AOFM Elf
This elf is dangerous. Do not approach. Call appropriate authorities.

WANTED

This elf is wanted in connection to several incidents of the following:

  • Aggravated holiday shopping
  • Silliness in the first degree
  • Random acts of smiling and Christmas cheer

 

This elf has been most recently observed in Wal-Mart, though he has been spotted in other retail establishments around Myrtle Beach as well. He is armed. He has two of them in fact, and has been seen carrying presents in both of them.  He has recently begun to victimize small children by grinning at them with malicious happiness and terrorizing store clerks with loud proclamations of "Merry Christmas".

 

 

DO NOT ATTEMPT TO APPREHEND HIM YOURSELF! ALERT THE PROPER AUTHORITIES!

Burgermeister Meisterburger
The Grinch
Ebenezer Scrooge

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Hi folks, AOFM pinch-hitting for the crazy duck lady. She's busy on the laptop looking for Black Friday-Saturday-Sunday deals. Me? I just wait until Christmas Eve and buy jewelry. Or at least I used to when we had disposable income. Now I buy cheap plastic trinkets from China and hand those out with drunken ass-whippings, like all good daddies do.

It's not all bad this year, though. We were told the first Christmas after Oprah showed off the Kindle that it was THE YEAR OF THE E-READER-R-R-R. That was 2009 or so. At "under" $400 (did you ever notice that when retailers say something is "under" a certain price, that's the actual price?), it was AVAILABLE TO EVERYONE!

Until we get to $400 for a gallon of gas, (which is an entirely separate blog post) something at that price is not really available to everyone. Something has to pretty much be a household necessity to be priced at $400 or more, especially after the economic downturn of early 2009. And an e-reader is not a household necessity (unless you happen to be married to an insane duck lady with sharp metal implements within her easy reach).

So when Amazon et al tried to talk up 2009 as THE YEAR OF THE E-READER-R-R-R, they were full of it.

...continue reading "The True Year of the E-Reader"

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 Great news for our readers eagerly awaiting the next chapters of Mary Anne's The Duke of Eden serialized historical romance novel - it's here!

We also have a button for it on our Complete List of Books page, but you may have to scroll down to the bottom of the lengthy book synopsis there... your patience is appreciated!

And once again, we show you the glorious, magnificent pecs of the Adonis adorning my wife's e-book, because you ladies just can't get enough of that guy. Or that guy's chest. Or whatevs. Just look at 'em and buy the damn chapters already. You female chauvinist sows. LOL!