Cedar's Mountain

Friends? What Are These "Friends" That People Talk About?

noreply@blogger.com (G) — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:46:00 +0000

Disclaimer: The post that you're about to read is strictly a general observational post as it applies to me. You should not assume otherwise, because you know, I really want you to be my neighbor. Hi neighbor! I officially walked into the cyber world and started my second life as a majorly skewed life form in February 2007. I can't tell you the exact day was because I actually have no...

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The Story Of One Bull Pup

noreply@blogger.com (G) — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:13:00 +0000

While the basement was going through a little housecleaning, I happened to find a copy of an old newspaper story that I had photocopied during my days working at the library, which I would like to share with everyone today. The story was first published back in 1901 and its a perfect example of what passed for humor back then. Hope you find it as funny as I originally did back when I'd first...

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Rejection! But Wait, There's More!

noreply@blogger.com (G) — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 16:36:00 +0000

I don't handle rejection very well. However, when you're executing the craft of writing to the best of your ability, rejection is one key component of that craft. So over the course of the past five years, I've learned to develop a very thick skin when it comes to someone (usually an editor) rejecting a story of mine. As most other writers have stated time and time again, the rejection is...

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And Your Excuse Is What?

noreply@blogger.com (G) — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:52:00 +0000

Well, ya see, my excuse for not writing what you expect to see here, which is mainly a post of substance, is that I had a pretty busy and slightly messed up week. To whit: 1} Computer was out of commission from Monday thru Wednesday, as I finally gave in and bought 2GB's worth of memory. The only computer I had at my disposal was the household, and in two days, reverted back to my old habit...

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Exploring Rhythm And Melody

noreply@blogger.com (G) — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:24:00 +0000

No, we're not exploring Big Audio Dynamite today, but we are exploring rhythm and melody. For those of you who have been seriously long term readers of this blog (like since 2009), you may remember my very first foray into writing fiction with blatant sex in it. The story itself was inspired by the song Dani California by the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Now, even though the Peppers came to...

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What's The Word Of Today?

noreply@blogger.com (G) — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 16:51:00 +0000

The word of today is "progress". It may be only incremental, but it's progress just the same. So let's talk about the types of progress that I've made in the past month with my writing. Blackness In The White Sand I've made only minimal progress on this particular novella, in that I'd only gotten about three pages written in the past three weeks. On the positive side, I finally figured...

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Riddle Me This And Riddle Me That

noreply@blogger.com (G) — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:18:00 +0000

I had a very brutal five days this week, so the only thing I was able to come up with was this moldy oldy e-mail from eight years ago. After the long, miserable spring we had here in the great Northeast, we finally had a nice sunny, warm day. It happened to coincide with my 12 year old son being home from school on summer vacation. I asked him if he wanted to go for a ride, and he said, "Not...

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Without The Attitude Adjustment, "Customer Service" Is Simply Two Nouns Strung Together

noreply@blogger.com (G) — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 14:59:00 +0000

Customer service. It's a topic that's near and dear to me and it's one that I've touched upon in the past three and a half years on this blog. Usually I talk about the bad and never about the good. This time, I would like to talk about how a large business can produce both good and bad at the same time. "G, that's completely impossible. How can you have good and bad at the same...

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Moving At The Fantastic Speed Of Slow

noreply@blogger.com (G) — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 14:40:00 +0000

This post was inspired by this post written by this kewl blogger Flashback time. Early 80's, when I had hair, gas was about $1.25 per gallon, there were three grades of gas: regular, no lead and super and I was a newbie driver at the tender age of 22 (yes, I got my driver's license late. It also took me three tries, but that's another story for another time). Car of...

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New Music Does A Body Good

noreply@blogger.com (G) — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 14:31:00 +0000

Over the long holiday weekend, I picked up three c.d.'s with my B&N gift card: "Swordfishtrombones" by Tom Waits; "El Camino" and "Chulahoma" by The Black Keys. "El Camino" will be the focus of today's music review. I was first introduced to this group and this particular c.d. by noted writer/musician (click here for a song by his group American Falcon)/blogger Chris LaTray, who had posted...

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To Be Continued

noreply@blogger.com (G) — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 15:11:00 +0000

"Hi ho! Allow me to introduce myself! I is Brown Bear, and I's be the official spokesman for the owner of this blog, G. Without further ado, let's get down to the main purpose of this post." "What should I do next with my blog?" was the question that G had asked himself in last Friday's (12/30) post, and of which he spent the long holiday weekend thinking about. To refresh everyone's memory, G...

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What Is The Word That I'm Looking For?

noreply@blogger.com (G) — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 14:20:00 +0000

What is the word that I'm looking for? It's.....right there, not quite on the tip of my tongue, but definitely right there at the tip of my frontal lobe. Wait a minute....wait a minute...let me just pick up this two by four and...now for my best interpretation of a t.v. character, may I present to you.....drum roll please.... Colonel Flagg! WHACK! WHACK! WHACK! WHACK! There we go, a nice...

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A Most Refreshing Bath Was Had By All

noreply@blogger.com (G) — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 13:51:00 +0000

Boy was that an overly long soak. Five days spent in the bathtub and I is the pruniest prune that you'd even seen. Anyways, it was a most refreshing break from the blogging world and since I need to fill up this space with excess verbiage, to quote Ralph Kiner, let's go to the happy recrap. Christmas was interesting simply because I didn't get any clothes this year. What I did get was the...

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It's Cuervo Time!

noreply@blogger.com (G) — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 15:16:00 +0000

It is rare that I complain about a plethora of things all in one shot. Usually I complain about one thing at a time on this blog, then move on. However, this week has been, to put it bluntly, a bitch. Between being on pins and needles about waiting for a positive result from something I did last week and dealing with the fruition of Monday's post (Monday thru Wednesday I answered about 75...

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No Longer A Newbie, But He's Making Strides

noreply@blogger.com (G) — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 14:28:00 +0000

Betrayed! A few weeks ago, I brought a dozen copies of my self-pubbed chapbook to work so that I could kick off a new sales/marketing campaign for the new year and thus sell a few copies. There are two reasons as to why I'm doing this: 1) enough time has gone by and I believe that most people have forgotten about my first self-pubbed book, and 2) I'm slowly re-tooling and re-loading...

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Y times Z times 1 1/2 equals 0

noreply@blogger.com (G) — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 14:08:00 +0000

No, this isn't some new math formula pulled from one of my daughter's homework assignments. This is a math formula that was pulled from this year's state budget. For those of you who are unfortunate enough to live in Connecticut, what I'm about to say is depressingly familiar, so please bear with me as I bring everyone else up to speed. This year we elected a Democratic guv'nor who...

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Question

noreply@blogger.com (G) — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 17:48:00 +0000

Yup, it's a rare Saturday post. Well, not so much a post as simply a question for you the reader. I've been thinking about developing the very last disposable camera that I used for Shooting Suburbia and posting it. However, there are a couple of things that you should know. 1} I have no clue what's on it. 2} The pictures were shot sometime when the temperatures were between 60 and 90...

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Daddy?

noreply@blogger.com (G) — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 13:53:00 +0000

"Daddy?" "Yes, sweetie. What's Up?" "Can I ask you a question?" He pauses for a moment, then says, "Sure." "Why did that driver give you the finger?" "What driver was that?" "The one that you cut off when you were pulling out of the parking lot." "Sweetie, I didn't cut anyone off." "You didn't?" "No. I was simply going around another car who was undecided on which way to go." "So...

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Is Self-Publishing Right For You?

noreply@blogger.com (G) — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 14:47:00 +0000

Unless you've been hiding in a cave living like a hermit, then you know that a lot of people have been talking/perusing/embracing the concept of self publishing. If you're a writer, you've naturally asked yourself this particular question in one form or another numerous times. As someone who has been an active participant and a very interested bystander/purchaser of the product for the...

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"Miles To Little Ridge" by Heath Lowrence

noreply@blogger.com (G) — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 14:21:00 +0000

Last Thursday, I got a tiny little e-mail from David Cranmer asking if I would be interested in reading a nifty little novella western and offering my opinions of same. Pleased about the fact that David genuinely values my opinion on something and getting free goodies (who wouldn't want free goodies, eh?), I thanked him for the novella and said I would be more than happy to offer my opinion on...

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Is Friday? Then Brain Vacancy Here!

noreply@blogger.com (G) — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 13:45:00 +0000

Howdy. Today's post is a gonna be a bit of a ramble, in that I don't really have much in the way of a singular topic, but for a change of pace, instead of numbering my bullet points, I thought I would try to write this post as a story/essay. Because let's face it, I am wickedly rusty when it comes to writing non-business related non-fiction, so what better place to inflict my torturous...

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The Canadian Midwest

noreply@blogger.com (G) — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 14:19:00 +0000

A week ago, I ran a rather lengthy and dry post about what I was doing with a few of my short stories. At the beginning of the post, I offered to write a post about the first two people who were able to identify the lyrical snippet and/or group that the post title was connected to. Suffice to say, I had two winners who correctly identified the song title, "Words", and the name of the group,...

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Hard To Accept But It's Easy To Ignore

noreply@blogger.com (G) — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 14:55:00 +0000

The world "no". The American Century Dictionary defines the word "no" thusly: Indicating a negative, refusal or denial. The antiquated response of yore (that is, what you and I would typically do) would be to accept the answer and continue doing whatever it was that we were doing when we asked the question in the first place. The typical response of the modern day toddler (age range 4-7...

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Is The Cure Worse Than The Ailment?

noreply@blogger.com (G) — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 14:14:00 +0000

I very rarely talk about my health issues on this blog, simply because I try not to let them define me as a individual. I would rather define myself as a unique individual who happens to blessed with a genetic malady and the world's cheapest disease to have: diabetes. I say cheapest, because if you have diabetes, the insurance companies have to cover your prescriptions (if you have insurance...

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What Are Words For?

noreply@blogger.com (G) — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 14:59:00 +0000

The first two people who can either identify the song or the group, without using the Internet, that this blog title is connected to, will have a very nice blog post written about them. With that being said, what are words for? Kind of a philosophical question but really, what are words for? When you string a bunch of them together, you form sentences and paragraphs, which in turn conveys an...

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