Yar's Revenge

News Flurry Returns and going Friends-Only.

2009-09-01T18:34:07Z

Does anybody here remember the News Flurry?

http://newsflurry.livejournal.com/

It's back, bitches. Add newsflurry to your Friends list.

Since that account will be the thoughts I share with the world, this is going friends-only. I'm not really paranoid, but I suppose I will need a private space to share my not-so-public thoughts.

Published Again!

2009-08-21T20:01:22Z

I've been given $0.99 for something I wrote about TF2. It's the most money I've made by writing so far. But Associated Content's gears turn slowly. Here's something you can read right now:

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2078761/why_the_sandman_is_the_worst_thing.html?cat=19

Gee, I actually wrote that. Compared to the links at the bottom of the page, it seems pretty trite. Oh well. I'm thinking of bringing back a certain news feature from my days as a Lancer...

ETA: this is what gets you a buck these days: http://webmail.associatedcontent.com/c.html?rtr=on&s=mgs,5zp7,faq,ftfu,6e0e,6asr,9bfx&ac_url=www.associatedcontent.com%2Farticle%2F2073313%2Fmad_as_a_hatter_for_the_classless_update.html

Required Viewing

2009-08-18T03:17:58Z

Remember, this will be on the final.

I never realized how much we all have in common with transfolk. I don't have enough tentacles, either.

I remember this.

2009-08-17T19:13:59Z

http://www.poetv.com/video.php?vid=64767

It had a video game, too.

mikeyarrum @ 2009-08-13T11:19:00

2009-08-13T18:27:28Z

So.

Some of you may have noticed I totally blanked on the promise to update this journal like a professional blog. My bad.

On the upside, I have plenty of ideas for a gaming blog... I think I'll try one o' dems for Associated Content. Forget practicing here.

My mother is going to visit. She wants to meet everyone.

Thinking of finally finishing up my Wishworld piece. It would make a good example for a portfolio - fantasy is big right now.

There are a million directions for me to go right now. My head is spinning.

My Life According to Devo

2009-08-08T04:01:18Z

Using only song names from ONE ARTIST, cleverly answer these questions. Pass it on to at least 15 people and include me. Try not to repeat a song title. It's a lot harder than you think! Repost as "My Life According to (Artist)"

1. Are you a male or female?
Happy Guy

2. How do you feel:
Ton o' Luv

3. Describe where you currently live:
Planet Earth

4. If you could go anywhere, where would you go?
The 4th Dimension

5. Your favorite form of transportation:
Red Eye

6. Your best friend is:
Secret Agent Man

7. What's the weather like?
Beautiful World

8. Favorite time of day:
When We Do It

9. If your life was a TV show, what would it be called?
The Day My Baby Gave Me A Surprise

10. What is life to you?
Strange Pursuit

11. Your fear:
Shrivel Up

12. What is the best advice you have to give?
Time Out For Fun

13. Thought for the day:
Shout

14. How I would like to die:
Love Without Anger

15. My soul's present condition:
Stuck in a Loop

16. My motto:
Through Being Cool

Meme caught from rosalarian

mikeyarrum @ 2009-08-05T10:27:00

2009-08-05T18:03:59Z

I'm a writer who hasn't been writing. There have been a few things, here and there - little one-offs I don't share with anybody I know. The pieces I did for the workers rights group (which I haven't seen in print, since I've flaked on them).

I feel like my brain is deteriorating. Talents and skills leaking out my ears, as if my head were some kind of fuel tank with a hole in it.

These days, it's all about the bloggers. The tweeters. The writers who are distilling the special something about the NOW.

There will always be other writers. I'm as excited as heck about the new Pynchon novel. The publishers even have a clip about it, possibly narrated by the reclusive author himself: http://www.poetv.com/video.php?vid=64207

But that's like living in a high-rise in the heart of a city. Comfortable, sure, if you can get it.

The blogs are a frontier. Just as much fighting, a lot more disorder, but a lot more space, too.

I won't be getting into either without some mental muscle built up. And this ol' LJ seems as good a place as any to do it. So look forward to big, honking entries from me about anything, every day. I'll be filling up your friends page like freeloaders at Burning Man, what what.

I suppose this is the Mikey Times. News of the Me. All the Myself that's fit to type.

Only, I'm not the one with news. Big entries from my friends. And I don't need Livejournal to tell me that they're going through some tough things, anyway. It really bothers me when people I care about are hurting. Maybe that is because I rely upon them to keep me sane. But nothing cures, heals or strengthens quite as well as Time (provided, of course, one isn't in one of those downward spiral things that only go deeper. But I'm mixing my metaphors and getting tangental). I am just plugging away, doing my small things until the big things come along.

Which is another problem I've been noticing in myself. My little things. I don't have something big I can do. My skills are limited and I haven't been honing them. I'm living the extended childhood of my generation, where a four-year degree is somehow a milestone and not a goal. Or maybe that is me complaining.

I have people, though. Oh boy, do I have people. Even when they are hurting, I know I am not alone. And that means a lot.

This is rambly, isn't it? Not the sort of thing that gets published or read by strangers. But it is a start.

Writer's Block: Let's Be Friends

2009-08-02T01:15:01Z

After a break-up, do you try to remain friends with your former flame? Does it work?

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I really only have one ex. We tried. Much like our relationship, it was on again and off again until it was finally off forever.

But we had serious communication issues, so I suppose things were always uber-doomed.

Ashley is a totally different story...

Writer's Block: Bite Me

2009-07-27T23:56:19Z

From Dr. Polidori's Lord Ruthven to Stephenie Meyer's Edward Cullen, the annals of vampire lore are filled with attractive, charming bloodsuckers. Which one would you most want to be bitten by?

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Yo.

Alternately...

mikeyarrum @ 2009-07-27T10:33:00

2009-07-27T17:33:45Z

Who do I gotta blow to get a job in retail?

Gah.

My favorite part of a job interview...

2009-07-25T00:22:41Z

Is when they are over. Gosh, so many questions I have no idea how to answer...

Here's hoping, though.

Geist

2009-07-22T02:03:00Z

I haven't been this excited about game stuff for awhile.

The new White Wolf game is Geist. It bears a strong resemblance to old Changeling, which I like.

In a nutshell, the PCs died, but were brought back to life by making a deal with the spiritual beings of the title. Now, they have to live with a possessing spirit, which in turn gives them strange powers.

This is totally something I'd run. I think a SoCal setting.

Huh. I'm some kind of ethereal spirit bullshit.

2009-07-21T01:38:30Z

Hey Yar, have you been volunteering with any workers' rights groups lately?

2009-07-15T16:03:09Z

Why yes, yes I have.

It's been fun, writing again. Hard, though - really not much good news for anyone lately.

The hardest part is being told how much I'm needed. Not that I mind, but I can't write for lunches. I'm afraid I owe more to the people I live with than the workers of California, sad to say.

But I don't think I'm alone in that regard - unless somebody around here has been volunteering full-time without anybody noticing.

The worst part about this is...

2009-07-08T20:50:38Z

That somebody, somewhere, is furiously masturbating to it.

All of it.

Not safe for work. Violence starts around 0:35.

You heard it here first.

2009-07-06T18:30:14Z

http://www.poetv.com/video.php?vid=62319

Unless you heard it elsewhere.

Personally, I think what makes this video is the way that goth chick rocks the honeypot. Yeah, go grab that power-up... never mind the pile of headless corpses around it.

mikeyarrum @ 2009-06-28T15:48:00

2009-06-28T23:05:46Z

Been back for less than 24 hours and I'm already flaking on people. Promise not to make it a habit. Things have been fun so far, and everyone's making the effort to spend time and give me an overall welcome. Looking forward to Tuesday and possibly other days as well.

Getting a lot of mixed feelings with no idea of where to direct them. Must just be the effects of coming home.

mikeyarrum @ 2009-06-26T08:31:00

2009-06-26T15:45:24Z

Ah, nostalgia.

I tried getting my camera to work. Turns out there's some software I need to put the footage onto my hard drive, and I can't find it. Oh well, if nothing else I can just learn to use a DVD ripper.

Tried reformatting the disc so now what was on there is lost forever to time. The notable thing was dark_bob_13 deadpanning that the real reason we went to Anime Expo was to see Space Chimps, and me babbling about TInkerbell after we were supposed to be ghost hunting.

I also have another disc, with footage of even longer ago, including treesandmagma before we were dating, as well as the back of fantasylite 's head, kevinbunny , and kit1508 (sorry, taken without your permission and has been deleted). There's also a pic of cinnicat taken with the night vision of him being... well, him.

Had uneasy dreams. One took place at Christmas, and as I frequently do, I went on a walk. The neighborhood was somewhat familiar. There was one of these parks sandwiched between the street and an artificial river that I've seen often in Long Beach. There was also a large house in the middle of the park, on fire, most of it already gone. I thought of calling someone, disturbed when I didn't realize quite where I was (though I imagined it being south of my Mom's house, opposite direction of Heartwell). Then a family showed up, and from the way they acted it was quite obvious they lived there. I left after that.

In another dream, I'm in a big building with a lot of water. I think it's an aquarium, though it looks more like an airport. The speakers are announcing something about the penguin exhibit becoming operational again after being declared unsafe. I'm ankle-deep in water. I go near a tiny swimming pool with a diving board, though really its no bigger than a bath tub, to get back a shoe I left. Turns out there's not just a shoe, but two complete outfits of mine, sitting in the water.

Writer's Block: Environmental Confession

2009-06-26T15:30:59Z

'Fess up: What do you do that's bad for the environment?

Sponsored by One Million Acts of Green brought to you by Cisco.

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I drive. I need to do that less. I hate driving.

Of course, I'll still take you wherever you need to go. I don't need the bus no matter what. It's just, after living in Davis for four years, I've gotten spoiled.

mikeyarrum @ 2009-06-21T11:49:00

2009-06-21T18:49:40Z

'cuz music videos seem all the rage right now.

mikeyarrum @ 2009-06-17T14:54:00

2009-06-17T22:04:02Z

And I said I'd update this more often.

Testing season is over. On the plus side is kelsied 's lovely Job Hunting Club, plus my long-awaited visit. Also gonna run more Changeling stuff next game.

Playing way too much TF2.

Applying to the Sac Co-op. Don't want to get my hopes up, but local, community-centric work? Hell yeah.

Wondering if I should try and get published somehow.

mikeyarrum @ 2009-06-08T14:49:00

2009-06-08T21:51:27Z

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090607/ap_on_re_us/us_abortion_shooting

Dr. Tiller's murderer says there are similar killings being planned. Wonder when he'll get waterboarded?

Writer's Block: Significant Choices

2009-06-08T02:10:53Z

If you had to choose between your friends and your significant other, who would you choose?

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Oh just fuck you.

Mike by the barrelful!

2009-06-06T13:01:02Z

16:08 I'm in your game, runnin' your scenes. #

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Mike by the barrelful!

2009-06-05T13:00:57Z

08:07 @Iron_Spike I'm liking Moze more and more. #

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