Quick Update

16 Jan

1. I have been severely blocked lately and haven’t been able to write or do anything else creatively constructive until today. Hopefully that’s over for a while, because it really hasn’t been fun.

2. Both of my sites will be participating in Stop SOPA on the 18th, which is Wednesday. I’m not taking the whole Campfire offline, just the front page, but the Authorblog will be blacked out for the day via a nifty little widget. Do stop by and see the video the widget will put up. 

3. I am considering combining the Authorblog with the Five Cats Press blog, just because I can’t keep up two blogs – at the moment I’m not even satisfactorily keeping up one! I’m also running out of room here at the Campfire, and removing the Authorblog would solve that problem for a while longer. I’ll warn everyone in advance when and if I do it so that you’ll all be able to change your bookmarks and RSS.

4. Happy Martin Luther King Day to all of you who have tomorrow off for it. I will be at work having a typical Monday, but do enjoy yourselves in spite of that. The rest of my family will be enjoying themselves right along with you; I have no doubt that they’ll all sleep in until noon unless I decide to wake them up before I leave just out of spite. :)

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Have A Happy Holiday!

25 Dec

Because even if you don’t celebrate this particular one…you hopefully still got the day off for it. ;)

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The Commercial They Should Have Made

19 Dec

UNICEF Sweden (link goes to article, not to UNICEF website) doesn’t appear to think very highly of Santa Claus – and I don’t think this commercial they made is going to put people in a giving frame of mind. If they wanted people to donate to this cause for Christmas, I think they should have done it something like this:

INT SANTA’S PRIVATE WORKSHOP – SNOWY DAY

SANTA is sorting through presents in prettily wrapped boxes. He smiles and nods as he removes the lid from each one to check the contents.

SANTA: Very nice fire truck – good paint job on that, it’s just perfect. Oh, a stuffed bear – looks nice and cuddly, some little one is going to love this. Now what have we here…

He pulls the lid off the next box…and stops. Then he tips the contents out on top of his workbench. Pill bottles and other objects which appear more medical than toy spill out in a heap. A look of great sadness crosses Santa’s face.

SANTA: A present for a child overseas. The Sudan, I think.

He looks into the camera.

SANTA: When I go to poor countries, I don’t take dolls and bears and fire trucks. I don’t take toys at all. (He holds up a pill bottle) Malaria tablets. (A small bottle and syringe) Polio vaccine. (A handful of little packets) Rehydration salts. Because the best gift I can give these children…is a chance that they’ll be alive to see me next year.

He starts putting everything back into the box, putting the beribboned lid back on.

SANTA: Send me some more of these, if you can. If I fill enough stockings with them now, then maybe someday I’ll be able to take toys to those children too.

FADE TO BLACK AS WHITE TYPEWRITER TEXT TYPES ACROSS SCREEN ONE LETTER AT A TIME

GIVE A CHILD THE GIFT OF ANOTHER CHRISTMAS
VISIT WWW.UNICEF.ORG TO FIND OUT HOW

Please excuse the creative formatting used to approximate script format. And no,this is not me promoting UNICEF. I just love Santa and hated their mean commercial, and fixing things with writing is what I do.

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