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Finished Painting [ CONTENT OVERRIDE: KILROY2.0 IS HERE!!! ] The House

October 27, 2009 By Lynette

It’s been a long long weekend, we are having the Pumpkin’s 2nd birthday party on Sunday (his actual birthday is on Halloween) – I can’t believe he’s *2* already!  Being that I work well with deadlines, we decided to invite a gazillion people over to motivate myself to fix the ‘honey-do’ list around the house.  Last year – YIKES – the shower upstairs

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leaked and ran down the wall, messing up the paint in the downstairs bathroom and kitchen.  So I finally fixed it.  $20 for paint and $300 for all the new fixtures, cabinet and mirror I wanted.  I’ll post pictures when I can!

Kilroy 2.0 is EVERYWHERE

PS – Today my favorite author of all time, J.C. Hutchins, has his brand new book “7th Son” hitting all major bookstores.  Websites, Facebook, and Twitter accounts worldwide are getting ‘hacked’ by one of the main characters of the book.  It’s an amazing story, you really need to check it out.  Be sure to visit his site, subscribe to his podcast (he gives the audio book away for *free*), and purchase a copy or two of the book to read. I promise it’s great!

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My Audio Love Affair

October 22, 2009 By Lynette
Beta Clone ???

Podcamp Philly 2007 -- Photo credit : C.C. Chapman

There is no other way to say it. I love to read, but some years back found myself with not a lot of time to actually sit still with a bound and printed dead tree and read – hello parenting. I eat books. I read lightening fast, and even the last Harry Potter book of 759 pages didn’t take me but under 2 days to read.  Sci-fi and fantasy are a favored genre but strangely enough I haven’t even picked up a Twilight book yet.

Years back, I was (and still am) a huge fan of Podcast Pickle (a podcast directory years ahead of iTunes.) The community was buzzing about ‘one of their own’ producing an original book, released in serialized audio format.  7th Son by J.C. Hutchins had been hitting podcasters and listeners by storm.  I had never been a fan of audio books, because honestly the person reading the book doesn’t convey the passion that only (in my opinion) the person that wrote the book can provide.  Besides, you can’t peek at the ending of an audio book, and you can’t consume it any faster than it is read to you.

In the first four minutes of the very first 7th Son episode, my head was reeling, I was in love with the voice and the story.  I joined the party at about the fourth or fifth episode – so I’m not really an ‘original’ listener, I jumped in after the series had already started up.  Didn’t stop me from being a crazed fan (note picture, I was 7+ months pregnant in the photo and had designed my own “Beta Clone #???” tee because the official seller of the shirts couldn’t make me a maternity one!)  Every cliffhanger had my heart beating in my throat, every death of a character had me in tears (no spoilers here I promise.)  It was a long, gorgeous, plot-twisting, wonderfully read, outrageous cleaver, and dangerously possible of happening in the near future – story that had me telling everyone I could about the series.  I would copy a few of the first episodes on a CD, write the website on the disc with a Sharpie, and hand it out to friends.  Every update the author would give on how more and more listeners were finding him and loving the work would make me feel like somehow I had personally contributed to it.  Hutch made it *our* story.

Radio silence to a degree after the third audio book had finished up, filled by interviews with other interesting authors and people, as well as a bit of behind the scenes info on how Hutchins was doing on his quest for a print deal.  I won’t lie, I was a little disappointed to find out that the first book deal to get to print was not 7th Son, but Personal Effects : Dark Arts.  PE:DA is an amazing story, complete with phone numbers to call, blogs to visit, birth certificates and photographs to gain clues and insight into the characters lives (even if fictitious.) It gave me nightmares…ktktktktktktktkt… Truth be told, I wanted *my* book, all of three of them, to be printed in one big huge fat hardcover so I could eat it for dinner.  After a reality check, I knew success had been long-earned by Hutch, and this only meant that more people would find his work and buy whatever he produced.

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Giving BACK

August 24, 2009 By Lynette

No surprise I am a compassionate and empathetic person. At least I *hope* it’s no surprise! I also value other people’s time, opinion, experience, and feelings. And with that I want to tell you what I try to do every week. I give back to people that have given me something that makes me happy – or changes my life for the better – but I try to show that thanks in a way they need most.  Money.  Sometimes I can’t do it every week, but I at least try every week.  Sometimes all I have to give is my time, a blog comment, re-Tweet, or a honest to God heartfelt complement or word of thanks.  That I *can* do every day.

As strange as it sounds, I’m going on a Rick Springfield cruise this November.  I’ve been to 10 concerts of his so far.  Not only is the cruise a unapologetic gift to myself (from myself), but it does in a way reward and thank RS for /cough/ 30+ years of his music to me, he gets money from it.  Not the most direct way to show my appreciation, but counting myself in a tiny percentage of rabid RS fans that would pony up the money and float around on the ocean for 4 days DOES say thanks better than any other way I could think of.

Secondly, I love love love Matthew Ebel, have for years, and finally realized that maybe I should show a ‘starving musician’ exactly what his music means to me – with money.  So I bought a one year VIP subscription to his fan club and music.  I already purchased every CD and track he’s released, but this was my above and beyond thank you for years of robots, ninjas, crayons, and piano ballads he’s made.  I tell the world about him every chance.  I am confident I have turned more than a few people into Ebel fans as well.

Drew Olanoff at Blame Drew’s Cancer is a story that kind of hit me in a weird way.  I’ve met Drew at  Podcamp Philly, and although I’m certain he doesn’t remember me, his personal story of cancer hits home closer than a lot of people may ever know.  I remember very vividly when that Tweet came across when he brought the fact he had cancer public.  The fear it struck in me to how it must feel to say it out loud, how it makes it real somehow hit me right in the gut.  I bought a tee shirt, I donated to Livestrong.  I gave money, but I’m not sure I made a difference.  I sure as hell hope *he* does.  Sometimes money alone doesn’t make it better.

Tonight I gave a few Starbuck coffee’s worth of money to my favorite author J.C. Hutchins via Podiobooks.  I will purchase every book he ever writes.  I have downloaded every audio novel he’s ever spoken.  I wanted to thank him more, so I gave him some money.  I am lucky enough to get to chat with him via Twitter every now and again, and would empty my pockets for him if I could just so he could sit home every day and WRITE.  I absolutely love his work.  I’m only sorry and sort of ashamed I hadn’t clicked that donate button years ago.

Am I so flush with cash I can click away at any PayPal Donate button I see?  No.  Am I more passionate about things I enjoy and love more than other people?  Maybe.  Do I feel that I need to show my appreciation for things I value in a way that *they* place value on? YES.

What do you value and love so much you would open your wallet & say “thanks”?

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Fangirls & Bucket Lists

June 3, 2009 By Lynette

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about my bucket list, and how I’m now 38 /falls off chair/ and how I am to the point in my life where I can start putting check marks next to things I’ve always wanted to do, or people I’ve always wanted to meet.  I have the usual stuff like ‘go to Europe’ on the list, but for me it’s more of connecting and meeting people as well as going to exotic places. I don’t get tongue tied if I meet a celebrity, I don’t scream and carry on at concerts, and I’m not a crazy groupie.  With exception. Quite a few of them.  Here are some of my more memorable moments… [Read more...]

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