Fizghoi

noreply@blogger.com (wade) — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 02:41:00 +0000

I should probably find a better place to put random one-off stuff that isn't related to one of those other things I'm doing/not doing.
For instance this, thing that basically sprang fully formed from my head on Saturday morning, metastasized from a dream that barely had any resemblance to it at all and that I can't remember. I thought about adding in some colors or tweeking the the background hues, but that got obnoxious way fast. It already feels enough like a pfsc ripoff for me to spend too much more time with it.

noreply@blogger.com (wade) — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 02:45:00 +0000

I wasn't really sure what to do with this little comic I made about impotent rage. It was part of a conversation on a friend's blog about being angry at her job, but it's a closed blog, so I thought I'd put it up here since there doesn't seem to be any other place for it.
Also updated the frontpage a bit and the pages from the thing with the bird: Now with Buttons!

Cheap Solutions for a Cheap Lo Fi Website

noreply@blogger.com (wade) — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 01:24:00 +0000

So I tweaked the frontpage a bit. Oh, it is still painfully obvious what a hack I am at web design, but I almost wouldn't have it any other way.
...Almost.
Lurking over there now is a link to something only accessible from that entry point, something that further shows off how lousy I am with html, how lazy I am when it comes to cleaning images up in photoshop, and how cheap I am when it comes to paying for web hosting. I mean upwards of tens of people have visited this website over the past year, but I have yet to find the incentive to step out of the free internet hosting ghetto. Maybe some day.

Oh yeah, I also had a little bit more to say about echidnas on that other, banner free, webpage.

Micro-fiction contest over at Fantasy Magazine

noreply@blogger.com (Lane) — Sun, 31 May 2009 18:17:00 +0000

For anyone who might follow this blog, this is Lane, not Wade. My story is one of the ten finalists in Fantasy Magazine's micro-fiction contest. Ten stories, ten sentences or less, based off some image. The picture I used may look familiar to anyone who clicked through to get here.

Feel free to check out all the winning stories, then vote on mine (or anyone else's, if you insist). Voting is open until June 12.

Fantasy Magazine's May Madness Micro-Fiction Contest

Update
Well, the voting period was shortened, the contest is over, and I made Third Place.

Micro-Fiction Winners

Podcastle will be podcasting the winners. I'm looking forward to hearing someone read mine.

Because a lag this long is a little depressing...

noreply@blogger.com (wade) — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 04:54:00 +0000

Febuary 1st was once again Hourly Comics Day. I participated again, and once again, my entries were pretty awful overall, BUT they were better than last year, and since this blog is pretty near unviewed by anyone other than a rare visit by myself, lane, or the odd random person linking from a search for "random weird stories" I feel unthreatened enough to post a link.

What is the Best Animal?

noreply@blogger.com (wade) — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:14:00 +0000

My obsession with the echidna has taken an unnecessary turn.

Real Life Weird Stories

noreply@blogger.com (Lane) — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 05:39:00 +0000

Just wanted to point out this contest Jeff Vandermeer is having on his blog. Those who post the best true life weird tales get a load of books written and/or edited by Jeff and his wife, who is an editor for Weird Tales Magazine.

Real Life Weird

The deadline is Sunday February 17, Midnight EST, so if you actually came across this site and still have time, might be worth a try. His books are good, especially if you're into more literary weird stuff. Of course, no one reads this blog, so my posting is a moot point anyway.

Update:
A little late (only a few months), but just wanted to post that I ended up as one of the winners. Here's the link.

Feral Pigs

A Statement of Things to Come?

noreply@blogger.com (wade) — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:15:00 +0000

Who knows? What I do know is that I've already commited to participating in Hourly Comic Day, not to be confused with 24 Hour Comics day. One difference, for instance, is that the hourly comic project doesn't necessitate taking a day off work, or even drawing skills which I don't really have. Could this upcoming something be something that could be refered to in the future as a fizghoi? I have no idea. Perhaps. Perhaps I'll stop refering to things as fizghois. Perhaps I'll stop rambling in entries about just what the nature of a fizghoi is. I mean, a lot of things could happen. I could win the lottery*. I could start putting more entries here. Somebody other than the contributors could actually look at this here webpage.

*Actually, I couldn't win the lottery seeing as I never purchase lotto tickets.

Is this a fizghoi?

noreply@blogger.com (Lane) — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:55:00 +0000

Old, out of date fizghoi?

Something going nowhere

noreply@blogger.com (wade) — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 19:34:00 +0000

Being bored and stir crazy at work while a girl giggles nearby over last night's outtakes from Leno can drive a man to do strange things.
case in point

You tell me.

noreply@blogger.com (wade) — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 17:43:00 +0000

Hello. If you're reading this, then my guess is that you probably know, know of, or have seen a reference to the guy writing down these words. If you don't, congratulations for wandering this way, and could you please tell me what you did wrong to end up here? Did you perform a google search for the word 'fizghoi'? Because I find that a little bit hard to believe, and you must be lying because 'fizghoi' doesn't mean a damn thing at this point. Why would you even lie about that anyway? What do you have to gain? That's just kind of weird, and perhaps, yes in fact, a bit creepy. Can't you just leave a comment stating what I'm sure turns out to be a perfectly reasonable and mundane explanation? Is that so hard? Why all the secrecy from a hypothetical and most likely non-existant entity? Ok, if you're a bot scanning through the 1s and 0s of the internet I can perhaps forgive you for not commenting because what you're doing can hardly be described as 'reading,' can it? I mean, you can't even comprehend what it is that I'm saying, much less that these words are directed at you. Ok, enough of the questions directed at those too non-existant or lacking in self awareness to answer.

For the rest of you, I have no idea exactly what this is just yet. The most that I've been able to rigidly set up in my mind is "a broad conglomeration of various disparate elements" which is oh so very clear and not vague, isn't it? I expect that things may get clearer and less vague over time, but we'll just have to see.
I don't intend for this to be simply an accumulation of blog postings by one individual or another, but I'm not ready to say that isn't one of the elements that might at some point be represented in the conglomeration. In fact that is something that you might see from the individual writing down these words, in fact it is something you're seeing right now, but this blog here for instance I don't mean to turn into a place to turn to when you read the daily ruminations on some aspect of the life of this individual. That might show up somewhere else, or it might not, but this blog I'm intending to be more about content and whatever the hell it is that a fizghoi, fizghoi, or however it will be refered to, is.