400th Blog Post - My Camp NaNoWriMo teaser

Sweating Bullets

Brett Cooper thought he had it made.  He ran a successful restaurant chain and was a world famous chili cookoff judge.  His girlfriend was a knockout.  Then one day he started sweating bullets from his pores and the world changed.  Now everyone is after him: the Sisters of the Most Holy Chainsaw, a group of militant fungus enthusiasts bent on summoning an alien monster to purify the world and bring about the age of fungus, and the ancient order that has been caretakers of the only weapon that can stop it since the world began.  It just hasn't been Cooper's week...

Intrigued?  Me too.  Now I just have to write the thing.

Camp NaNoWriMo already?

So, Camp NaNoWriMo kicks off Friday with a second one in August.  Why did I think there was only an August version?  Looks like Sweating Bullets might be coming to life sooner than I thought.  I was wondering what I was going to do with my spare time in July anyway.  It's looking like it could be a 30 day orgy of underpreparedness.

Here's what I have so far that I want to include:

• A man that wakes up sweating bullet-like objects one morning
• A sect of chainsaw worshipping nuns
• Furries
• Millitant environmentalists attempting to summon a sleeping alien monster that's in orbit beyond pluto
• Cicada Men living far beneath the earth's surface
• An order that's been the keepers of a bizarre organic gun since the Earth's creation
• A vast conspiracy

As you can see, it's a comedy.

I guess I should start stocking up on NaNo supplies like frozen pizzas, spam, ramen, and granola bars.  I wonder if I'll have enough juice left after Sweating Bullets to work on another one during the second Camp NaNoWriMo in August.

Geek alert - Interesting Search Terms

As I've mentioned before, I'm a compulsive stats checker on my blog.  I'm particularly interested in what search terms people use to get here.  Here are some interesting ones from my two blogs this week:

• gunslinger and jake little severian - I'm assuming I wasn't the only one that saw parallels between Roland and Jake's relationship in The Dark Tower and Severian's relationship with Little Severian in The Book of the New Sun.
• refrigerator smells like curry - self explanatory
• doom patrol gay kiss - I believe this is referring to the kiss between Monsieur Mallah and the Brain in Doom Patrol Volume 2.  As I asked then, is it gay if a gorilla with a male human brain passionately kisses a robot with a man's brain inside?
• april hairy pics - Something tells me they were looking for porn, not at the bumble bee picture they got.
• big hairy pics - see above. 

In a related topic, my book blog has been getting some serious hits due to my author interviews lately. 

The first comic I owned*

Way back in my pre-kindergarten days, my superhero loyalty was to Batman and Robin, more Robin than Batman, actually.  Who wouldn't want to hang around with a superhero like Batman?

Anyway, image my surprise when my mom brings me a comic home from the drug store and Robin's in it but teaming with Superman.  Was such infidelity permitted?  Were superheroes allowed to woo away one another's sidekicks?  I was intrigued.

Fortunately, the Dynamic Duo's domestic union proved to be as strong as ever and the fling with Superman was quickly swept under the rug.

I read DC Comics Presents #31 to tatters and eventually let it be thrown away.  Sometime in my twenties, I tracked down a near mint copy of this gem.  The story didn't wow me like it did when I was four or five but it still had its moments.  I was much more interested in the Whatever Happened to Robotman back up feature the last time around.

* I'm fairly sure I owned a couple issues of Spider-man before this but have no idea which title or issues they were, although I'm fairly sure The Wizard and The Trapster appeared in one of them.

I've had this song in my head for the past day and a half.

Amazon Rant - Update

It took twenty days, a bit of revising, and a lot of cursing but my review of Rico Slade Will Fucking Kill You finally showed up on Amazon.  I also reviewed Bradley Sands is a Dick and they took my review on the first try.  Apparently you can have as many Dicks in a review as you want as long as there's no Fucking.

Who wants a body massage? The GI Joe PSAs

Five or so years ago, one of my co-workers found a collection of GI Joe public service announcements that had been doctored.  Some were just odd but others were hilarious.  Imagine my surprise when today's write-up on daily steals referenced my favorite of the altered PSAs.  Click on this link to see the PSAs for yourself.  The body massage one is 003.