tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26760390767688963492010-01-14T06:11:42.281ZJacob Ditkovskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10401533969908155964noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125DaringTalesOfDaringhttp://feedburner.google.comSubscribe with My Yahoo!Subscribe with NewsGatorSubscribe with My AOLSubscribe with BloglinesSubscribe with NetvibesSubscribe with GoogleSubscribe with Pageflakestag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2676039076768896349.post-64491196463130135982009-01-12T09:00:00.001Z2009-01-12T09:00:01.050Z2009-01-12T09:00:01.050ZJacob Ditkovskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10401533969908155964noreply@blogger.com0The monkeys... my God, the monkeys!No!No!NO!There is no God! There is no God!When you read this I will be dead. All of us are... so many...They came. We weren't ready. We didn't know. And now...Tell my wife I love her.* ADVERTISEMENT *Pineapple...<br/> <br/> (click post title to continue)http://blog.daringtalesofdaring.com/2009/01/crash-site-amazon-p-9.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2676039076768896349.post-43560578288750268252009-01-05T09:00:00.009Z2009-01-06T14:46:50.439Z2009-01-06T14:46:50.439ZJacob Ditkovskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10401533969908155964noreply@blogger.com0It is dark in the jungle. As dark as a pitch-black plum pit sitting in the deepest reaches of a black panther's gastrointestinal tract.I am writing long-hand. I must guess where the edges of the paper are, occasionally ending my lines on my khaki...<br/> <br/> (click post title to continue)http://blog.daringtalesofdaring.com/2009/01/crash-site-amazon-p-8.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2676039076768896349.post-81815175458687769232008-12-29T09:00:00.000Z2008-12-29T09:00:01.077Z2008-12-29T09:00:01.077ZPenelope Atwoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07253814888575494517noreply@blogger.com0The next dispatch will be posted on January 5, 2009. Pleasant New Year!P.A.<br/> <br/> (click post title to continue)http://blog.daringtalesofdaring.com/2008/12/note.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2676039076768896349.post-47563814740593638912008-12-22T09:00:00.002Z2008-12-22T13:08:42.493Z2008-12-22T13:08:42.493ZJacob Ditkovskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10401533969908155964noreply@blogger.com0Nossa Senhora Das Orelhas is the best hospital in Sao Paulo. Benvolio’s room has a view of the city’s trademark sprawling squalor and the surgical instruments used in his operation were fairly clean. Benvolio is incompetent when it comes to simple...<br/> <br/> (click post title to continue)http://blog.daringtalesofdaring.com/2008/12/crash-site-amazon-p-7.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2676039076768896349.post-37015539930251145812008-12-17T09:00:00.002Z2008-12-17T09:00:00.834Z2008-12-17T09:00:00.834ZJacob Ditkovskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10401533969908155964noreply@blogger.com0Amiel couldn’t find a taxi that would take him to the South Bronx so he took the Subway to the Longwood Ave. stop on the 6 train and walked down Longwood to where he was supposed to meet Pasha.It was an abandoned industrial yard. Grass and weeds had...<br/> <br/> (click post title to continue)http://blog.daringtalesofdaring.com/2008/12/fire-proof.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2676039076768896349.post-29759032323956119002008-12-15T09:00:00.004Z2008-12-15T09:00:00.840Z2008-12-15T09:00:00.840ZJacob Ditkovskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10401533969908155964noreply@blogger.com0We arrived in Sao Paulo just after dawn. The city is beautiful when there is little light to see it by. Just the twinkling shimmer of the shattered glass and the faint autumnal hues of the corrugated metal roofs. The Wayward Trope docked on pier...<br/> <br/> (click post title to continue)http://blog.daringtalesofdaring.com/2008/12/crash-site-amazon-p-6.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2676039076768896349.post-6054545033402714022008-12-10T09:00:00.004Z2008-12-11T13:28:44.937Z2008-12-11T13:28:44.937ZJacob Ditkovskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10401533969908155964noreply@blogger.com0Don was sick of the article he was writing about a police detective in SoHo who shot a kid in the chest for stealing a woman’s handbag. It was a sob piece about the plight of the young people forced to rob from old ladies and get shot in the chest....<br/> <br/> (click post title to continue)http://blog.daringtalesofdaring.com/2008/12/regolith-sand-gravel.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2676039076768896349.post-62623750215277693892008-12-08T09:00:00.005Z2008-12-16T13:48:33.391Z2008-12-16T13:48:33.391ZJacob Ditkovskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10401533969908155964noreply@blogger.com0The Sept. In French, Le Sept. Known throughout the world as the most feared group of French assassins. Period. Virgule.My first encounter with the troupe du mains non lavées, as they are also known, was on a warm night in Algiers. It was April,...<br/> <br/> (click post title to continue)http://blog.daringtalesofdaring.com/2008/12/crash-site-amazon-p-5.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2676039076768896349.post-31576799324201673732008-12-04T09:00:00.003Z2008-12-04T09:00:00.859Z2008-12-04T09:00:00.859ZJacob Ditkovskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10401533969908155964noreply@blogger.com0“So it was Fredo?”“God damn, Vance, he fucking says it. He fucking says it! He SAYS it! Are you that fucking stupid?”“But who – I mean, what did Fredo DO?”“What?”“I know he says, he says, ‘Fredo, you did it.’ But what did he do?”“He tried to have...<br/> <br/> (click post title to continue)http://blog.daringtalesofdaring.com/2008/12/great-fart-of-meaning.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2676039076768896349.post-5464002141199667772008-12-02T09:00:00.005Z2008-12-16T13:48:44.501Z2008-12-16T13:48:44.501ZJacob Ditkovskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10401533969908155964noreply@blogger.com0Rough seas are much like a woman. Except without a viable uterus. Admittedly some women are also without a viable uterus. Rough seas are like those women.Voyaging through the Corniphlo Pass is always challenging. Far more sinister than the...<br/> <br/> (click post title to continue)http://blog.daringtalesofdaring.com/2008/12/crash-site-amazon-p-4.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2676039076768896349.post-83885103631547049622008-11-26T21:14:00.003Z2008-11-26T21:18:10.055Z2008-11-26T21:18:10.055ZPenelope Atwoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07253814888575494517noreply@blogger.com0We are severing our relationship with Google Alerts as they never worked correctly. Kindly cancel your Google Alerts and sign up for full subscription through the most recognized name in weblog syndication -- FeedBurner. The module to do this is...<br/> <br/> (click post title to continue)http://blog.daringtalesofdaring.com/2008/11/google-alerts-is-bullocks.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2676039076768896349.post-5468249224661507152008-11-24T09:00:00.004Z2008-11-24T09:00:00.564Z2008-11-24T09:00:00.564ZJacob Ditkovskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10401533969908155964noreply@blogger.com0We assembled in New York City and then took a tramp steamer from Pier 82 to Calston, Flordia where we boarded The Wayward Trope, our home for the seven-day voyage to Sao Paulo. Our captain is a weathered old sea dog named Farnsworth L. Pendulum but...<br/> <br/> (click post title to continue)http://blog.daringtalesofdaring.com/2008/11/crash-site-amazon-p-3.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2676039076768896349.post-68534026735155156732008-11-24T08:59:00.001Z2008-12-10T13:08:28.418Z2008-12-10T13:08:28.418ZPenelope Atwoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07253814888575494517noreply@blogger.com0It's a book. (Seriously, ask anyone.)<br/> <br/> (click post title to continue)http://blog.daringtalesofdaring.com/2008/11/advertisement.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2676039076768896349.post-70568541683682690142008-11-20T23:10:00.000Z2008-11-20T23:10:01.084Z2008-11-20T23:10:01.084ZJacob Ditkovskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10401533969908155964noreply@blogger.com2I can't even believe he was serious. Funny Videos | Funny Cartoons | More Video ClipsOne has to wonder if that's truly Togo's midriff.<br/> <br/> (click post title to continue)http://blog.daringtalesofdaring.com/2008/11/carlough-was-serious.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2676039076768896349.post-18662104961095832992008-11-19T09:00:00.005Z2008-11-19T10:54:08.996Z2008-11-19T10:54:08.996ZJacob Ditkovskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10401533969908155964noreply@blogger.com0The first time I met Will Carlough was in a fox-hole in an unauthorized war you will not find in any text book. Since then he has become an award-winning filmmaker, talented comedian and world-famous gangsta hip-hop artist. His Paraphrase Theater,...<br/> <br/> (click post title to continue)http://blog.daringtalesofdaring.com/2008/10/will-carlough.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2676039076768896349.post-40525569903563973332008-11-17T09:00:00.002Z2008-11-17T10:48:34.518Z2008-11-17T10:48:34.518ZJacob Ditkovskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10401533969908155964noreply@blogger.com0Before setting off on my latest adventure I stopped by the University to consult with Professor Ashua Kellinsworth. The principle goal of the expedition being to find Captain Quinn Danner's crash site somewhere in the Upper Amazon, Prof....<br/> <br/> (click post title to continue)http://blog.daringtalesofdaring.com/2008/11/crash-site-amazon-p-2.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2676039076768896349.post-51932079051007174672008-11-12T09:00:00.006Z2008-11-14T10:04:55.628Z2008-11-14T10:04:55.628ZJacob Ditkovskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10401533969908155964noreply@blogger.com0Chandler checked his watch. It was 6:23 A.M. Walt would be one of the first people aware of the bounty. Word spread fast, by afternoon every two bit scumbag and professional assassin in New York City would probably be on him if the bounty was north...<br/> <br/> (click post title to continue)http://blog.daringtalesofdaring.com/2008/11/fate-of-mary-mallon.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2676039076768896349.post-67646855801583622102008-11-11T23:48:00.004Z2008-11-12T02:51:37.047Z2008-11-12T02:51:37.047ZPenelope Atwoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07253814888575494517noreply@blogger.com1The book is now available on Amazon. This is a very good thing. You can get free Super Saver Shipping and if you have Amazon Prime you also get free shipping. If you have an Amazon credit card I believe you get double points. It's a wonderful...<br/> <br/> (click post title to continue)http://blog.daringtalesofdaring.com/2008/11/amazon.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2676039076768896349.post-10165386166744081142008-11-10T09:00:00.002Z2008-11-10T09:00:00.954Z2008-11-10T09:00:00.954ZJacob Ditkovskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10401533969908155964noreply@blogger.com0In my first memoir: Deepest Depth of a Dark Dragon Called Adventure I described adventuring thusly:The true adventurer is the man who eschews all respect for man and beast, for decency and morality, for intellect and truth. The true adventurer...<br/> <br/> (click post title to continue)http://blog.daringtalesofdaring.com/2008/11/in-my-first-memoir-deepest-depth-of.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2676039076768896349.post-41018127240573459462008-11-09T16:32:00.002Z2008-11-09T19:34:47.258Z2008-11-09T19:34:47.258ZPenelope Atwoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07253814888575494517noreply@blogger.com3The book is currently on sale here. It will be on Amazon by the end of the month. Frankly, though, we have a much better deal with CreateSpace. Don't tell Jacob I said that. He maintains Amazon has panache.P.A.<br/> <br/> (click post title to continue)http://blog.daringtalesofdaring.com/2008/11/book-sales_09.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2676039076768896349.post-25909120202625713722008-11-03T09:00:00.001Z2008-11-03T09:00:00.282Z2008-11-03T09:00:00.282ZPenelope Atwoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07253814888575494517noreply@blogger.com0All,I'm very excited about the coming launch of this website as well as the entire Daring Tales of Daring! series. Mr. Ditkovski is currently in Brasil on expedition and I have just begun going through the early dispatches, preparing them for...<br/> <br/> (click post title to continue)http://blog.daringtalesofdaring.com/2008/11/coming-dispatches.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2676039076768896349.post-72913299044687987722008-10-10T17:09:00.004+01:002008-11-03T02:53:44.496Z2008-11-03T02:53:44.496ZJacob Ditkovskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10401533969908155964noreply@blogger.com0Daring Tales of Daring!Coming Monday, 10 November 2008.Do you dare?<br/> <br/> (click post title to continue)http://blog.daringtalesofdaring.com/2008/10/launch-date.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2676039076768896349.post-53198473855188895292008-09-15T14:48:00.000+01:002008-11-15T14:49:07.242Z2008-11-15T14:49:07.242ZJacob Ditkovskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10401533969908155964noreply@blogger.com0Test.<br/> <br/> (click post title to continue)http://blog.daringtalesofdaring.com/2008/09/test-post.html