21 Friday Dec 2012
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If you’re reading this note, it would appear the Mayan’s have messed up the date
for the apocalypse. So much for the sacrifice of young maidens who gave their lives to bring you the world’s end. My heart goes out to them … no pun intended. And what’s with the poor Mayan with the big schnozzle?
19 Wednesday Dec 2012
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I’m blogging as DT Tarkus at the Muse today. http://ow.ly/gdMal Check out a little Holiday humor from yesteryear.
05 Wednesday Dec 2012
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I tweeted a recent magazine article by Joel Stein, Time Magazine’s humor columnist, who had an interesting take on some High Schools pushing nonfiction over fiction literature (How I Replaced Shakespeare ti.me/QOonQ4 via @TIME). It had me revisiting a blog I wrote last year at the muse, http://blameitonthemuse.com/non-fiction-and-other-necessary-evils/, which in my own unique brand of humor, agreed.
28 Wednesday Nov 2012
Posted in Writing Dystopian Themes
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Apocalypse, Dystopian, Environment, Global Stage, Maslow, Science Fiction plots, Writing Science Fiction, Young Adult Literature
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An author friend, Hope Ramsey, asked an interesting question last week on her blog post: What Happened to My Modern World. She wanted to know if the younger generation’s interest in dark, scary, post-apocalyptic fiction was a rebellion against us Baby Boomers who have over-consumed our way into climate change. Well … given my writer’s interest in the genre, I felt compelled to put some thought into it.
21 Wednesday Nov 2012
Posted in Writing Dystopian Themes
I stumbled across an interesting blog article from last year’s Thanksgiving. Titled Thankful for the Right to Read: Dystopian Novels about Censorship. It was posted by Emily Kickinson, who is associated with the Daniel Boone Regional Library in Missouri. Given my interest in all things dystopia, Emily talks about the classic stories by Ray Bradbury, Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, and mention of Alan Moore’s V for Vendetta. Censorship is the key theme of these classics. It is a noble premise in our current world where censorship has smeared the literary arts for centuries, and worth reposting.
14 Wednesday Nov 2012
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I’m blogging today as DT Tarkus at http://ow.ly/fhxLK and embracing my inner funny bone about holiday indulgence. Tell me what you think.
08 Thursday Nov 2012
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In setting up my author page, I struggled with what to choose as my author byline. For those who know me, I haven’t exactly embraced concepts of social media, relegating the establishment of an author brand as something found in infomercials. I expressed my curmudgeon behavior of the subject recently at http://blameitonthemuse.com/confessions-of-a-website-avoider/ as DT Tarkus. The resulting commentary told me to suck it up and get with the program. Sigh.
An author friend of mine advised to look at my stories and find a common element. I tend to write about YA protagonists ripped from normality to face dark, impossible situations. To me, it is about moving toward that proverbial light at the end of a long, seemingly-infinite tunnel. Searching for light in the darkness. I’m not the first to make this connection.
25 Thursday Oct 2012
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My daughter recently made me sit through back-to-back episodes of the Walking dead. I love conflicting characters in a stark, dystopian tale, and this one was dripping with emotion. That’s not all that was dripping. It had me longing for the days of low-resolution cathode ray tubes.
22 Monday Oct 2012
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A little over a month ago, I experienced the incredible dream of handing my oldest daughter to the man she loves. With Zion National Park as her chapel, she took a step into a new life with promises and her husband’s name. It gave a father much to muse on when the excitement and emotion dissipated. As tradition dictates, I was the last to speak at the reception. For muse Monday, I’d like to share those words with you.
08 Saturday Sep 2012
Posted in Writing Dystopian Themes
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Could you love a lizard? Could you even like one? I originally discussed this unseeming subject last year at www.blameitonthemuse.com, and thought I’d repost this on my new website. I got some flack for responding to a fellow blogger’s subject of writing to your core. All I said was: What’s with the current trend in movies/television for technologically advanced aliens who look like mutant lizards, don’t wear clothing, grunt/squeal/roar like a cross between a stuck pig and a Tyrannosaurus Rex, and reproduce with the emotion of a fish?
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