Showing posts with label peta. Show all posts
Showing posts with label peta. Show all posts

Friday, December 13, 2013

Doctor Who, Boobies, and Beer

     Early yesterday I went into a Doctor Who rant on Facebook; which can be a dangerous thing for me when it comes to Doctor Who. It's like a crackhead visiting an old friends house that just so happens to moonlight as a crack house.
     When talking with my friend Touch about the whole spill of what number regeneration and number body is the Doctor currently on I hit rant point and paragraphs came out of me.
     And more now.
     The fucking body and regeneration thing being different numbers is just stupid. If that's the case what number is The Watcher that helped the 4th Doctor regenerate or The Valeyard? It's taking a concept that's complicated to a lot of people to begin with and making it even more completed by trying to explain away things perfectly. There's a difference between creator and fan games, that's a fan game.
     Every time anyone connected with the show tries to explain it they just make it more convoluted. They should of just said when time was changed in regards to the Time War John Hurt's Doctor became a paradox and that's why he regenerated right away into the 9th Doctor, it was time correcting itself. Because that's basically what the story said but NOOOO Moffat and everybody has to feed into fans bullshit and try to please everyone while actually pleasing no one.
     Over and over again people seem to forget fan stands for fanatic. Fans are like a spoiled child by nature. You don't give them candy because they are crying or being good for once, you do sparingly but without a pattern they can take advantage of.
     My problem isn't with people talking about this whole, that's a lot of the fun in any fandom, my problem is with the people working with the show talking about something instead of showing it in a story. Either show it like you want to be in a story{which I had thought they had done} or just say that's for everyone to have a view on.
     Because in the end the internet has this irrational hate on for Moffat and he isn't doing himself any favors by feeding the beast.
     This is the third thing I read him say about this since the special and other people with the show have made comments. Just show with the stories, that's all.

     Later while helping a relative troubleshoot a website problem{You know you don't know shit about something technology based when I'm helping you with tech stuff.}I watched a few episodes of my favorite web series, I'm so behind but I only made a comment on one of them. Sorry to disagree with one of my Gods in John Green but American beer isn't the best. It's only function isn't one of taste but to allow idiots to drink as much beer as possible with other idiots cheering them on because its mainly piss water or around here Brevard County water. Maybe they brew all American beer secretly in this area?

     Another of my Gods is David Lubar. Speaking of him, David Lubar on Twitter is one of the best things about Twitter. Such as = "Fox's Megyn Kelly tells viewers that Jesus was white. I guess it's just a matter of semantics. Or Semitics. Jesus wasn't white. Everyone knows Jesus is an Hispanic name."

     We went out after Mar got home to find some last minute gifts and craft stuff. While Mar was looking for something at the Dollar Store I was talking to someone in an exchange on Facebook about the issue of students being allowed to wear Support The Boobies type stuff at schools.
     My opinion is a lot of people only wear that stuff as an excuse to wear something that says boobies on it and act like its for charity or activism. In this case I stand with these students because boys have had Big Johnson shirts for years and no one goes after them but mention a womens breasts in any way and its STOP THE SMUT!

     When we were out looking for a gift, just before coming home, I ran into someone handing out pamphlets. As someone who has been on that side of things I know its not easy but there is a proper way to do it. You ask, you be polite, and you don't bug people. The following is what I tweeted after this encounter: No PETA person I don't want your pamphlet and you being an asshole when I politely said "No thank you" is one example why your group is shit.
     To say I don't like PETA is an understatement. They only care about publicity and do as much to help save animals, if not less, as your average slaughter house. Egocentric assholes who hide behind supposed activism to play club house party.

     Now for some shameless self-promotion.

 From the Tin Universe Store:

     That's the first poster in a series of inspiration posters I made for myself but also have available for sale. There are also a lot more Tin Universe materials in that store, many featuring the covers to my new book coming out on the 22nd of this month. It will be available for download on my Smashwords store for $1.00 per download. Like I've said before if you buy something from one of my stories I'll email you a PDF of Tin Universe Middle Grade Series #1 for free. All you need to do is put STORE ORDER RECEIPT in the subject box of an email with a copy of your order confirmation attached and send to hangofwednesday@gmail.com

Mildred Betbeze, Tin Universe Middle Grade Series #1
“Zombified people make me itch so I’d rather not touch.”

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Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Where I talk about working for free, the DOJ, ads in ebooks, and whip cream fun.



Where I talk about working for free, the DOJ, ads in ebooks, and whip cream fun.

Since I’ve created several System * Publishing sites I’m going to go back to Under The Training Book being my personal blogging outlet.
Getting back into blogging is just another writer meal to consume. I haven’t decided if I will be completely taking down my Live Journal site but more than likely that will be the case.

I’m going to start this by talking about some quotes on writing I recently came across.

Cory Doctorow  @doctorow  “Any writer who indemnifies a nonpaying publisher is a sucker; any publisher who asks is a jerk.” #businessOfWriting
I think that quote by Cory Doctorow is largely true. I'd love to work with a ton of people but don’t have the money to hire them and wouldn't ask them to work for free.
And the people I do work with I always work out some sort of payment even when people are saying they would work for free. I don’t like playing that game.
I’ve also had a number of people ask me to write comics or TV reviews for their sites for “exposure” I barely have enough time to write my own stuff, I’m not going to write for you for some kind of mythological golden exposure.

Jason Arnopp  @JasonArnopp “Rejection can be tough. Rant privately, learn what you need to, then forge ahead like the unstoppable steamroller you need to be to survive.”
I think in the internet age this is usually a lesson writers learn by fire so to speak. I use to take rejection so bad I would stop writing for long periods of time and that was just stupid. Writing is like playing baseball, no matter what you do, you ant ever Ever going to even have a 500 batting average. At least in my view failure is not only a option, its required to tough the skin and skill.

Tony Lee  @mrtonylee “What's worse than a writer that gets rejected? A writer that's so scared that they don't even TRY, and never write the story they dream.”
So true and this was me for some long. I took my own weakness as a pre-birth failure before even trying.

Tony Lee  @mrtonylee “If you can't accept that your first draft isn't perfect? Then GET OUT OF WRITING. Because it won't be. Change = improvement.”
This is actually something you learn fast when writing monthly releases or you die. I’m still finding the proper structure for my work towards making my releases the best they can be but rewriting, revising, editing- that a lot of time turns into the real writing.
People have asked me what doing monthly releases are doing for me personal for than anything else and I say it’s training under gun fire. It’s harsh and sometimes cruel but it’s the best writing learning process I’ve ever been involved with.

There are only two things that have given me as much pain and joy as writings and that’s sex and trying to play good defense on any version of Madden.

Here are some things I’ve found interesting online:

Department of Justice sues Apple & publishers for allegedly colluding to set eBook prices. http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/doj-sues-apple-publishers-over-ebook-prices_b49963
I’m sort of back and forth on this issue but in the long and painful road maybe it might be the best things to slap the publishing industry in the head about getting their drive in gear about digital works.

I like her even more now. PETA does nothing really for animal abuse. Well, except kill a ton in their shelters so I guess they can’t…be abused…when Dead? All they do is masturbate to their own self promotion actions. http://www.gossipcop.com/jennifer-lawrence-peta-feud-squirrel-scene-winters-bone-rolling-stone-interview/
Oh, and before someone jumps down my throat about PETA. I know someone who had blood thrown on them by PETA people. If I had been there I would have beaten that asshole. PETA should go fuck themselves. They get away with assault and playing look at me and doing nothing real.
PETA, “I love animals so lets puts somes ladies naked on a billboards. YES YES YES!”

I've thought about putting ads in my books but still resist. Yes it would bring in money but would it be worth it for me and also the people buying ads? http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-17657859

Santorum's biggest mistake. He went after porn. I'm not kidding. Porn is such a huge industry you know some of his supporters were all, "You can go after women, you can go after anything else, but let us row back that talk."

Go Jalen Rose, ESPN never calls out Skip Bayless. He's a character now, not a journalist. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/10/jalen-rose-skip-bayless-basketball-lie_n_1415422.html ESPN has becoming a sports copy of Fox News. They want to be called pure News when it benefits them and they want to be called entertainment when attacked. And just to add I've always said Fox New took a lot of lessons for doing their thing from the early success days of ESPN. ESPN perfected the newscaster is more important than the news itself structure.

Time to post this and knuckle down and get some writing down. The writer in me says go put more whip cream on my coffee. My body says "ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?"
At least I don’t funnel that stuff into my mouth like Mar does.
Oh, that just sounded bad, didn’t it? She’s going to kick my ass.

And as always here are some of the places you can find me online:

UNDER THE TRAINING BOOK: Official site of Brian C. Williams
CHAOS READ: Bimonthly Short Story Series
TIN UNIVERSE: Bimonthly Short Story Series
The  Facebook page of Brian C. Williams
Twitter feed of Brian C. Williams
Smashwords Store:

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