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Hold Onto Your Girdles, It’s Haiku Thursday

Well, it’s been one week since the inaugural Haiku Thursday and that means it’s Haiku Thursday!

Garret’s Haikus

Warning: my haikus today will involve sea animals:

It was on the news.
Australia’s epic beasts,
That’s right: monster sharks

No one knows his plight.
Being different is hard.
Swim true, monster shark.

If I’m three meters,
And monster sharks are six, then
it is time to run.

In other world news,
NASA launched a big rocket.
The moon best watch out.

The thought just occurred:
there’s monster sharks and rockets.
What is next? SPACE SHARKS.

There you have it. All the shark haikus you’ll ever need.

Andrew’s Haikus

All of Andrew’s haiku this week strive for greatness.  Also, more on sharks.

The Go club is great:
people are very kind and
dick jokes are subtle.

Halloween is great:
candy is cook, but the coke
parties are the best.

Megasharks are great:
although, it is bad news for
Samuel L. Jackson.

New rockets are great:
next step, we fit it with a
megashark warhead.

Megashark rockets:
Samuel L. Jackson can’t hide.
This shit just got real!

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Old Hotness: Kindle, New Hotness: Nook

nook1Over the passed couple of years the eBook craze has all went nuts. While some early adopters went to Sony and others, picking up their respective readers, it wasn’t until Amazon kicked open the door like Steven Seagal with their Kindle that eBook readers became really popular. And truth be told, this writer has had a nerd crush on the Kindle since its inception but has never had the extra monies to pick one up. The Kindle dominated market, however, may be up to some stiff competition if Barnes & Noble has their way. Last week, to confirm many rumors, B&N unveiled its take on the eBook reader, and it is one sexy piece of plastic.
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NaNoWriMo: National Novel Writing Month

It’s that time again! (Or for those who have never heard of this: It’s that time!) That’s right, here in just a couple short weeks is NaNoWriMo time! What, pray-tell, is NaNoWriMo? Well it’s none other than National Novel Writing Month, if the title of this post has anything to say about it. So dust of your thinking caps and get your pens and computers ready; here is the breakdown of how this works:
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Haiku Thursdays!

From now on, Thursdays will be Haiku Thursdays. We’re tired of not having more 17 syllable phrases floating around. LET’S BEGIN:

Headache in the night,
Cat thinks it is time for play,
Cat lives outside now.

Sorry that was me,
Didn’t mean to punch your face,
It was in the way.

They’ll never honor
your bogus treaties, now! Watch
out,Tigerbot Hesh!

Have any that you’d like to add? Throw them in the comments!

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Author Exposé: Cherie Priest

Cherie Priest

Last time, we brought you a bio of Scott Westerfeld, author of super cool, steampunktastic Leviathan. Today, following in those punky steam boots, we’ll discuss another author who rolls in that genre: Cherie Priest. Just a few weeks ago, her latest novel, Boneshaker, was released, replete with zombies, airships, and a walled Civil War era Seattle full of craziness; and from all I can tell, it’s pretty damned cool.
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