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And These Are The Generations…

06/30/2010

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

And These Are The Generations Of…

I have not written about what I’ve been doing recently because I haven’t been doing anything. My life has been a dull slogging along doing historical research for that western novel I’m working on.

No spiritual highs or lows, just slogging.

However, look at this:

Yes, I’ve had fun playing with the internet discovering several sites for fun. The above epithet, I made at Tombstone Generator at http://www.jjchandler.com/tombstone/ .

Isn’t that fun!

And last night Ginny and I sat for four hours listening to the music of our youth on Pandora Radio at http://www.pandora.com/#/about . This great site allows listeners to chose their own play list and it plays the songs you chose. So we listened to the Beach Boys, Peter, Paul & Mary, the Kingston Trio, the Everly Brothers, the Mamas & The Pappas, Credence Clearwater Revival, and a bunch of other favorite groups.

This was the first time in ages we have done nothing but grove to “our” music.

Great fun!

Oh, by the way, that Tombstone Generator site also links to one where you can create various warning signs—such as:

Glog: A Dinosaur Novel Of Sorts is my favorite of all the books I’ve written or edited.

Speaking of writing, four years ago today, I posted the following newspaper article in my diary under the heading: (click to enlarge the article):

America’s Two Greatest Writers

06/30/2006

This newspaper clipping is fake but fun.

I used Newspaper generator at http://tools.fodey.com/generators/newspaper/snippet.asp to create it.

I did it because Stephen King is my favorite writer and I just finished re-reading his book Desperation, yesterday. I think it ranks among his finest.

If I tried to list my favorite Stephen King books, I’d include about 30 of his 40+ novels. And, as a writer, I find his non-fiction, On Writing and Danse Macabre inspiring.

Reading his books, I admire his skill in removing me from my world and getting me totally involved in his. I marvel at his command of English and at his thought processes as he takes ordinary people and places them in extraordinary situations.

Since I read Carrie when it first came out, I’ve bought two shelves full of Stephen King books. Obviously, Mr. King has never bought one of my books but if he reads this fake clipping, I hope he gets a kick out of it.