The Written (Inked) Word

So I have this new addiction that I occasionally give into. I call it StumbleUpon. It is a small little button that you hit that randomly takes you to a website that people think is interesting. well, I've been wandering like a bad boy while I should be typing up my blog. Silly, silly me.

Now while I have been wandering, I have come across one of the coolest website ever. As we all know, I love the written word, and that I also have the occasional love for tattoos. Well StumbleUpon has found a website that has taken both of these loves and stuck them together. The website is known as Contrariwise. The fantastic imagery that people use to write their favorite literary phrase, or in some cases, their gibberish, and also below the picture in each post is where the phrase comes from. Please go check it out. It is full of amazing and I love it. I will admit though, some of the pictures there are very amazing, some of them are as follows:

This,

This,

and This.

Like I said, go look! Have fun!

A Little Bit of Random Clutter

Can you breath? Will You Stop Me from Doing It?

Yours was the only song that I ever wanted to hear: I wanted it to engulf me

in the sweet sound of it's embrace.

This pain...

I want to be all over you, the embrace of your fingers a gentle caress...

would you fucking kill me if I admitted it?

Would it kill you?

Just let it kill you and take all of the pain from you...

Would it make you want to die from it all?

I want them... I want them bad... I will try to take them for myself... but

can you sit there and allow it? The song pounding in your ears?

I wish that they said that you must...

It will all get better... after all, nothing is happening is it? Or has the

song made you blind? Has the song rendered you deaf?

No, I want your song, I want to be with you... I can do what I want because

you will let me won't you? I want the song to wash over me and consume me...

You don't mind really do you...?

Nothing you say matters anymore...

Let the song slowly murder your insides... Let it kill you... Let yourself

die...

No, trust the song... It only hurts a little bit, just a sweet little bit...

I promise that you will be better...

Remember to breathe... Breathe the words of the song as they confound you...

You'll survive all of it... Even if it hurts to let the song go... Even if

you die inside when the song abandons you...

Trust the song that its alright... I'm here with you again... I've always

been here as your song... the song will be there...

Just be silent and take in the songs regrets and let it consume you...

Just be quiet and take it all...

Silence is all we demand from you... take it...

Just be still and take it...

Fantasy Reboot

I love reading short stories. I really do. I like to quickly, just for a shot while, to be transported to another world. Everyone likes to be in another world for just a short while and it is that short while that makes short stories a little hard to master. One has to be able to mesh characters and a strange new world that is believable and then make a small story out of a small problem that could be a big problem. It also has to keep your attention. One of the best places to see this is in small magazines and webzines.

One of my favorite magazines is called simply put, "Fantasy Magazine". For a while there, the magazine seemed to be floundering. Well, lucky for us, just recently, they got a whole new Editor, a personal favorite of mine, John Joseph Adams.

Head on over to my website of choice (io9) and see a partial bit of the interview that they did with him.

Clickies here!

Also, when you are done, why no t head over to the website and see what you can see there as well?

Hurray for News!

The fantastic has happened and the flood gates have lifted and I must say that we have been blessed with an actual time and date. That date is as follows:

JULY 12TH

That is the date when George R.R. Martin's next book in the song of Fire and Ice comes out - a Dance of Dragons.

To read a bit more, please go to my favorite website for news on geekery - io9.

The link is as follows:

YAY CLICK HERE!