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Yes, I’m doing it again. I am out here pimping myself for a podcast author. Another author who has made good and is now set to release an old fashioned ink and paper book on the world. The author in question, or in subject, is J.C Hutchins and the book is Personal Effects: Dark Art (PE:DA) due out on Monday, June 9th. PE:DA follows the extensive notes of art therapist Zach Taylor’s investigation into the life and madness of Martin Grace, an accused serial killer who claims to have foreseen, but not caused, his victims’ deaths. Zach’s investigations start with interviews and art sessions, but then take him far from the hospital grounds — and often very far from the reality that we know. The items among Grace’s personal effects are the keys to understanding his haunted past, and finding the terrifying truth Grace hoped to keep buried… But, PE:DA is not just a read it and leave it book, though it could be. PE:DA is a new approach to telling a story. PE:DA is a true leap from paper into alternate reality that the reader is welcome to join. It allows the reader to see what Zach sees and feel what he feels. It comes with credit cards, business cards, photographs and other tangible items that the reader can use to dive deeper into the story. There are websites and phone numbers to call. You can even interact with Rachel Webster, @pixelvixen707 on Twitter, who is Zach’s girlfriend and a reporter for the New York Journal Ledger. Now, why am I whoring myself for Hutch? Thats easy. I want you to help make him a superstar in the world of published fiction. I want you to buy a copy of and read Personal Effects: Dark Art when its released on the 9th. Hutch has given so much of himself to his fans over the past three years and I want you to help me pay him back. To reach my lofty goal, I want you to do two things. One is to visit J.C Hutchins‘ website and subscribe to his great FREE(1) content and two, I want you to use this link(2) to buy your copy of PE:DA. Already a Hutch fan? Already a Beta Clone? Even better. I know you will buy a copy of the book but I also know you will use the link here and get one of the cool PE:DA avatars off his site to use in AIM, Skype, Twitter or any of the other places you can show your support of Hutch’s work and help me pimp its quickly approaching release date. By following these simple steps you help me pimp you out and get out the word. So, come June 9th, I’ll be at my local Brick and Mortar book store buying my copy of Personal Effects: Dark Art. All footnotes are for reference only. These have no bearing on the information presented above and may include: side thoughts, more links or just more scattered information. Read at your own risk.

Yes, I said FREE as in beer, content. Its Hutch’s link, not mine. I’m not getting anything from this except knowing that Hutch is selling a great number of PE:DA copies.

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Fried Green Zombies is a Podiobook.com novel written by John Allen. Its a tale of Zombies (of course), Aliens, a Computer Nerd, Rednecks and corrupt Southern Law Enforcement. What is not to love in that mix? Here is a blurb from Allen’s website - Chett and Harry are two recently unemployed construction workers on their way to a weekend of beer, Southern Comfort, and frog gigging at their musty-rusted 1970’s RV parked at their favorite hunting camp when they stumble on Bob, the mysterious, busty, burqa-clad, non-English speaking beauty just standing in the middle of nowhere on the side of dusty Nine Mile Cutoff in rural Bovina, Mississippi. Then all hell breaks loose. Their favorite pond is missing. They’re being chased by truck driving zombies, dirty cops, UFOs and other ne’er-do-wells. Someone stole Chett’s jacked up Scottsdale four-by-four. Zombies are traipsing around their trailer, and crazy Uncle Crank is trying to feed them zombie chicken for dinner. Aided by a classic computer nerd, a crazy man wielding a frying pan, and a space babe who gets nekkid any time someone turns out the lights, follow Chett and Harry as they battle their way across the rural countryside and ultimately save the world. Why is their pond missing, and why did the Dodge of Death spring from the muddy crater left in its center? Who is Bob and why is she so good with shotguns? Why are they being chased by two really skinny, pale, bald, goatee-clad wierdos? What is the dirty county sheriff hiding? And will Chett and Harry ever make it out alive? I can tell you that this is a humorous book. Head over to Podiobooks.com to start listening or FriedGreenZombies.com to get your listen on! Two days ago I bought a new, to me, iMac . I got it home and set it up. It ran like a top. The only downside was that, being an early 2006 model, it still had OS X 10.4.11. I remedied that last night and picked up a copy of the Boxed Set along with a game for D5. My wife had been home all day using the new ‘pretty penny’, as she called it, to fill out job apps and apply for positions. She needed to print a copy of a state app she had filled out. I dutifully attempted to plug in the printer and the USB cable sparked killing the printer and disabling the iMac . Sadness ensued. Luckily we are in an Apple friendly area and my wife was able to get a hold of a local repair shop, Mac Pac, for some help. Unknown to my wife, this was the same shop that I bought the OSX bundle and game from. I’ll be taking it in for their techs to look at in a week, after I get paid again. We’ll see how it turns out. Below is the Audioboo that I recorded. Have a listen.

Fried Green Zombies is a Podiobooks.com novel written by John Allen. Its a tale of Zombies (of course), Aliens, a Computer Nerd, Rednecks and corrupt Southern Law Enforcement. What is not to love in that mix? Here is a blurb from Allen’s website - Chett and Harry are two recently unemployed construction workers on their way to a weekend of beer, Southern Comfort, and frog gigging at their musty-rusted 1970’s RV parked at their favorite hunting camp when they stumble on Bob, the mysterious, busty, burqa-clad, non-English speaking beauty just standing in the middle of nowhere on the side of dusty Nine Mile Cutoff in rural Bovina, Mississippi. Then all hell breaks loose. Their favorite pond is missing. They’re being chased by truck driving zombies, dirty cops, UFOs and other ne’er-do-wells. Someone stole Chett’s jacked up Scottsdale four-by-four. Zombies are traipsing around their trailer, and crazy Uncle Crank is trying to feed them zombie chicken for dinner. Aided by a classic computer nerd, a crazy man wielding a frying pan, and a space babe who gets nekkid any time someone turns out the lights, follow Chett and Harry as they battle their way across the rural countryside and ultimately save the world. Why is their pond missing, and why did the Dodge of Death spring from the muddy crater left in its center? Who is Bob and why is she so good with shotguns? Why are they being chased by two really skinny, pale, bald, goatee-clad wierdos? What is the dirty county sheriff hiding? And will Chett and Harry ever make it out alive? I can tell you that this is a humorous book. Head over to Podiobooks.com to start listening or FriedGreenZombies.com to get your listen on! Two days ago I bought a new, to me, iMac(1) . I got it home and set it up. It ran like a top. The only downside was that, being an early 2006 model, it still had OS X 10.4.11. I remedied that last night and picked up a copy of the Boxed Set along with a game for D5. My wife had been home all day using the new ‘pretty penny’, as she called it, to fill out job apps and apply for positions. She needed to print a copy of a state app she had filled out. I dutifully attempted to plug in the printer and the USB cable sparked killing the printer(2) and disabling the iMac(3) . Sadness ensued. Luckily we are in an Apple friendly area and my wife was able to get a hold of a local repair shop, Mac Pac, for some help. Unknown to my wife, this was the same shop that I bought the OSX bundle and game from. I’ll be taking it in for their techs to look at in a week, after I get paid again. We’ll see how it turns out. Below is the Audioboo that I recorded. Have a listen.

All footnotes are for reference only. These have no bearing on the information presented above and may include: side thoughts, more links or just more scattered information. Read at your own risk.

its an early 2006, Intel 20″ iMac. It was turned off at the time and is now dead… sob. It was a great HP photo printer. The iMac now refuses to power on. The front indicator light/circle lights and a fan turns, but there is no joy in Muddville beyond that.

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I have just finished listening to Letter From China by Peter James Froning. I downloaded it from Podiobooks.com. Listing to this book and the authors journey I was wanting more. While very uplifting and enjoyable the end of the book hit me hard. I guess I am becoming more emotional as I get older (a massive 41 as I write this post) and the end of someones journey, someone that I have come to like very much, hits me hard. Be that end real or imagined. Peter spent a year in China teaching ESL(1) to university students. His emails home (the subject line was Letter from China) detailed his life during that year from his arrival in Beijing to his departure and trip home. A chronicle of his life and how the people and culture effected him. In the end it was more about how he lived and the lives he touched. I found that, through his writings I had come to like Peter quite a lot and wanted his voice telling his story. I was wondering why he had not done the audio himself(2) . The answer came at the end of the book. Peter had died a few months after returning from China. The outpouring of love from his students and friends showed how Peter had effected all those he met. His family received over 150 letters and emails from his former students in China. No small feat. I, Like them, was in disbelief that this man I had come to know had died. I mention this book because of its effect on me. I looked at what Peter had done and those he has touched and then at my life. Sure, I’m loved. I have five lovely daughters and a lovely wife whom I know love me. But I know that I am not living near the same caliber life that he had. In the end I guess what I want to say is have a positive impact on those you meet. Make your legacy more that what you have and who you know. Thank you Peter. I wish I had known you.

All footnotes are for reference only. These have no bearing on the information presented above and may include: side thoughts, more links or just more scattered information. Read at your own risk.English as a Second Language The audio was done excellently by Barret Whitener. End Footnotes