moon phases

Started this before change to "New Blogger", as backup in case of trouble with digiphoto blog "In a Small Dark Room", or rants & links blog "Hello Cruel World" . Useful - at one stage Dark Room was there, but like the astrophysical Dark Matter, we could't see it ... better now, but kept Just In Case.

---

---

There is nothing. There is no God and no universe, there is only empty space, and in it a lost and homeless and wandering and companionless and indestructible Thought. And I am that thought. And God, and the Universe, and Time, and Life, and Death, and Joy and Sorrow and Pain only a grotesque and brutal dream, evolved from the frantic imagination of that same Thought.
Mark Twain (letter to Joseph Twichell after his wife's death)
[me, on a bad day]

---

WRITER'S LINKS
Absolute Write Paypal donation button:

Absolute Write is one of the leading sites for information on writing and publishing, especially the scam versions thereof. It has a broad, deep online community with an enormous message base going back years. Now it needs help. See the details and discussion here
Preditors and Editors
Everything you wanted to know about literary agents
On the getting of agents
Writer Beware
Miss Snark
Writer's Net

---

(and my Wish List)

---

 
The Grandiloquent Dictionary - some recondite words  
The Grandiloquent Dictionary

www.islandnet.com/~egbird/dict/dict.htm
Example:

lalochezia
The use of foul or abusive language to relieve stress or ease pain.

The home page contains the following disclaimer:

Please also note that no one connected with this site takes any
responsibility for anything. This dictionary is offered "as is" and by
reading it you agree to assume all responsibility for any damage, insult,
or injury sustained. Furthermore, by reading this dictionary you waive any
rights to sue anyone for any reason.

Similar material may be found at : phrontistery.50megs.com

... And, for something completely different ...
asifa.net/robinson/pimp/2001.htm
Animation World Magazine 2001 Animation Pimp columns (Years 2000-2003 are archived at this site.)

mag.awn.com/index.php?ltype=search&sval=Animation+Pimp&article_no=382
The Animation Pimp: On the Condition Known as Aural Allochezia*

Boy, the Pimp is never happy! This month, the Animation Pimp discusses his
great distaste at being hit over the head with music. Of course, he uses
more colourful terms...

August 08, 2001
By Chris Robinson
*You look it up!
[permalink] posted by Mez at 5:55 pm