Comments for COLLIN PIPRELL http://www.collinpiprell.com Generating realities, exploring them, losing the thread. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:47:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Comment on 1) Godwotterous writerly brain syndrome 2) Blaming your tools, looking for magic programs by Collin Piprell http://www.collinpiprell.com/http:/www.collinpiprell.com/1-godwotterous-writerly-brain-syndrome-2-blaming-your-tools-looking-for-magic-programs/#comment-2168 Collin Piprell Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:47:51 +0000 http://www.collinpiprell.com/?p=2271#comment-2168 And some responses on Facebook: Kevin Cummings Does your brain have visiting hours, Collin? I'd pay admission for that fantastic voyage. Cheers. 2 hours ago · Like Collin Piprell Thanks, Kevin. In fact, you can have my place for free, and good luck, eh? Bring a spool of thread, though. I didn't, and I can't find my way out again. ... A knock at the door. Could that finally be the boys in white? The ones with nets? 2 hours ago · Like Collin Piprell From Kevin: Mad Hatter - They're Coming to Take Me Away www.youtube.com Neuroticfish's song "They're Coming to Take Me Away" with clips from Tim Burton'... See More http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DBBYrL7VmB2U%26feature%3Dshare&h=RAQHAo5akAQGtVnO105vRuTJtw3ZSDlfq8V6g70yxjtAqhg. And some responses on Facebook:

Kevin Cummings
Does your brain have visiting hours, Collin? I’d pay admission for that fantastic voyage. Cheers.
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Collin Piprell
Thanks, Kevin. In fact, you can have my place for free, and good luck, eh? Bring a spool of thread, though. I didn’t, and I can’t find my way out again. … A knock at the door. Could that finally be the boys in white? The ones with nets?
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From Kevin:
Mad Hatter – They’re Coming to Take Me Away
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]]> Comment on 1) Godwotterous writerly brain syndrome 2) Blaming your tools, looking for magic programs by Collin Piprell http://www.collinpiprell.com/http:/www.collinpiprell.com/1-godwotterous-writerly-brain-syndrome-2-blaming-your-tools-looking-for-magic-programs/#comment-2167 Collin Piprell Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:45:13 +0000 http://www.collinpiprell.com/?p=2271#comment-2167 John Frederick responds by e-mail: "Myself, I'm resigned to a marshmallow grip on reality. If reality isn't going to stay real, why should I humor it?" This is serious aphorism country, by God. I like it. John Frederick responds by e-mail:

“Myself, I’m resigned to a marshmallow grip on reality. If reality isn’t going to stay real, why should I humor it?”

This is serious aphorism country, by God. I like it.

]]> Comment on 1) Godwotterous writerly brain syndrome 2) Blaming your tools, looking for magic programs by Collin Piprell http://www.collinpiprell.com/http:/www.collinpiprell.com/1-godwotterous-writerly-brain-syndrome-2-blaming-your-tools-looking-for-magic-programs/#comment-2166 Collin Piprell Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:43:06 +0000 http://www.collinpiprell.com/?p=2271#comment-2166 Sometimes -- e.g. when I read my last blog entry -- I wonder whether I'm losing my iron grip on reality the way it was wrought, back there in the beginning. Why do I suddenly get this feeling all the world's a digital stage and I appear a capering loony upon it? Sometimes — e.g. when I read my last blog entry — I wonder whether I’m losing my iron grip on reality the way it was wrought, back there in the beginning. Why do I suddenly get this feeling all the world’s a digital stage and I appear a capering loony upon it?

]]> Comment on 1) Godwotterous writerly brain syndrome 2) Blaming your tools, looking for magic programs by Collin Piprell http://www.collinpiprell.com/http:/www.collinpiprell.com/1-godwotterous-writerly-brain-syndrome-2-blaming-your-tools-looking-for-magic-programs/#comment-2165 Collin Piprell Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:38:16 +0000 http://www.collinpiprell.com/?p=2271#comment-2165 Very helpful. *The Presbyterian Endoplast*? We're rich! Very helpful. *The Presbyterian Endoplast*? We’re rich!

]]> Comment on 1) Godwotterous writerly brain syndrome 2) Blaming your tools, looking for magic programs by Osho http://www.collinpiprell.com/http:/www.collinpiprell.com/1-godwotterous-writerly-brain-syndrome-2-blaming-your-tools-looking-for-magic-programs/#comment-2164 Osho Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:18:14 +0000 http://www.collinpiprell.com/?p=2271#comment-2164 I didn't know the brain is plastic. My personal brain has turned to mush. What you should do is make a movie of your trilogy. Nobody reads books anymore. Or publishes them, either. Wasn't there a movie guy in town some time ago, Caprice or Cappuccino or something like that? Team up with him and make a movie about MOM and the Presbyterian endoplast or whatever. Am I helpful, or what? I didn’t know the brain is plastic. My personal brain has turned to mush. What you should do is make a movie of your trilogy. Nobody reads books anymore. Or publishes them, either. Wasn’t there a movie guy in town some time ago, Caprice or Cappuccino or something like that? Team up with him and make a movie about MOM and the Presbyterian endoplast or whatever.

Am I helpful, or what?

]]> Comment on Some good things to do with an Internet addiction by Collin Piprell http://www.collinpiprell.com/http:/www.collinpiprell.com/some-good-things-to-do-with-an-internet-addiction/#comment-2159 Collin Piprell Fri, 27 Jan 2012 03:55:03 +0000 http://www.collinpiprell.com/?p=2252#comment-2159 I'm afraid that's a very real tendency. And the idea that no one can write a book if they're within arm's reach of an Internet connection is probably pretty accurate. Meanwhile technology is trying to ensure that no one, anywhere, 24/7, will ever be without Internet. The horror, eh? I’m afraid that’s a very real tendency. And the idea that no one can write a book if they’re within arm’s reach of an Internet connection is probably pretty accurate. Meanwhile technology is trying to ensure that no one, anywhere, 24/7, will ever be without Internet. The horror, eh?

]]> Comment on Some good things to do with an Internet addiction by Ray http://www.collinpiprell.com/http:/www.collinpiprell.com/some-good-things-to-do-with-an-internet-addiction/#comment-2158 Ray Fri, 27 Jan 2012 03:31:03 +0000 http://www.collinpiprell.com/?p=2252#comment-2158 Hi Colin, I met you last night for the first time at the Bangkok Writers' Guild. really enjoyed listening to your stories; very funny! I think this is a great idea, I for one know I need myself a writing zone, away from distractions, away from the internet, which is just oh so easy to click and check your facebook, or blog stats, or email.... Is this new age making it impossible for anyone to concentrate long enough to write novels? Perhaps they will become a thing of the past and people will be content with reading comments on youtube.. Hi Colin, I met you last night for the first time at the Bangkok Writers’ Guild. really enjoyed listening to your stories; very funny!

I think this is a great idea, I for one know I need myself a writing zone, away from distractions, away from the internet, which is just oh so easy to click and check your facebook, or blog stats, or email…. Is this new age making it impossible for anyone to concentrate long enough to write novels? Perhaps they will become a thing of the past and people will be content with reading comments on youtube..

]]> Comment on Some good things to do with an Internet addiction by Collin Piprell http://www.collinpiprell.com/http:/www.collinpiprell.com/some-good-things-to-do-with-an-internet-addiction/#comment-2147 Collin Piprell Thu, 05 Jan 2012 06:16:20 +0000 http://www.collinpiprell.com/?p=2252#comment-2147 The idea fast evolves into new territory, even as one and all become mired deeper and deeper in Internet addiction: Anou Raut Desai Piprell: Are you frozen catatonic over router, hammer in hand? 2 hours ago · Unlike · 3 Ann Kuzy This concept is pure genius. If this is what it will take to get your latest book finished, I am all for it. Just think, nothing at all between you and your word processor! I think you need an hour each day in the "yard" for exercise, though, along with conjugal visits. :) about an hour ago · Like · 2 Anou Raut Desai Extrapolate the conjugal visits to your paying guests, and imagine how much you'll clean up on those. about an hour ago · Like · 1 Suzanne Levi-Sanchez Yes...it's like the big victory for gamers...write a certain amount and earn points for internet and sex and potions..It would be interesting to see how many would choose internet over sex and drugs, now wouldn't it? about an hour ago · Like · 1 Collin Piprell The way things are shaping up, "Madame Muse's" might be closer to the mark. ... I have an undead router. There is no hope. about an hour ago · Like · 2 Collin Piprell But I do like the way this enterprise is evolving. about an hour ago · Like · 2 Suzanne Levi-Sanchez Bounded Besse's Book Brothel about an hour ago · Unlike · 2 Collin Piprell Each branch, in the various international capital cities around the world, could have its own name. about an hour ago · Like Collin Piprell A friend posted the following on my blogsite under a name I can't use for fear of attracting assassins, when all I want are investors. What he says means I've only partly reinvented the bicycle, this time. Read on... about an hour ago · Like · 1 Collin Piprell Anonymous friend: For decades Japanese publishing companies have “canned” writers who were in danger of failing to meet their book or magazine article deadlines. The leading hotel to be canned in was the Hilltop in Tokyo, which happens to have the nicest nine-seat bar in town. Takashi Tachibana, the country’s top investigative reporter, so greatly in demand that he had trouble keeping to all his many deadlines, was canned there repeatedly. The nine-seat bar was of no use to Tachibana or other authors subjected to canning, as they were not permitted to leave their rooms until they supplied completed manuscripts. (The Japanese borrowed the word canned from Engllsh but modified it to kanzume.) about an hour ago · Like · 2 Suzanne Levi-Sanchez Ktabkhane kati khush va khohesh (Dari - Book house of desires and joy) about an hour ago · Unlike · 2 Anou Raut Desai Now we're talking! BBBB has my vote, although I am shattered at the Prospect of yielding royalties on PPPP. about an hour ago · Unlike · 2 Collin Piprell Okay, now it's stake-through-the-heart time for my router. about an hour ago · Like Suzanne Levi-Sanchez Yup. I've heard that before. about an hour ago · Like · 1 Collin Piprell There's still 10mins. till lunch; I should be able to finish that book. The idea fast evolves into new territory, even as one and all become mired deeper and deeper in Internet addiction:

Anou Raut Desai
Piprell: Are you frozen catatonic over router, hammer in hand?
2 hours ago · Unlike · 3

Ann Kuzy
This concept is pure genius. If this is what it will take to get your latest book finished, I am all for it. Just think, nothing at all between you and your word processor! I think you need an hour each day in the “yard” for exercise, though, along with conjugal visits. :)
about an hour ago · Like · 2

Anou Raut Desai
Extrapolate the conjugal visits to your paying guests, and imagine how much you’ll clean up on those.
about an hour ago · Like · 1

Suzanne Levi-Sanchez
Yes…it’s like the big victory for gamers…write a certain amount and earn points for internet and sex and potions..It would be interesting to see how many would choose internet over sex and drugs, now wouldn’t it?
about an hour ago · Like · 1

Collin Piprell
The way things are shaping up, “Madame Muse’s” might be closer to the mark. … I have an undead router. There is no hope.
about an hour ago · Like · 2

Collin Piprell
But I do like the way this enterprise is evolving.
about an hour ago · Like · 2

Suzanne Levi-Sanchez
Bounded Besse’s Book Brothel
about an hour ago · Unlike · 2

Collin Piprell
Each branch, in the various international capital cities around the world, could have its own name.
about an hour ago · Like

Collin Piprell
A friend posted the following on my blogsite under a name I can’t use for fear of attracting assassins, when all I want are investors. What he says means I’ve only partly reinvented the bicycle, this time. Read on…
about an hour ago · Like · 1

Collin Piprell
Anonymous friend: For decades Japanese publishing companies have “canned” writers who were in danger of failing to meet their book or magazine article deadlines. The leading hotel to be canned in was the Hilltop in Tokyo, which happens to have the nicest nine-seat bar in town. Takashi Tachibana, the country’s top investigative reporter, so greatly in demand that he had trouble keeping to all his many deadlines, was canned there repeatedly. The nine-seat bar was of no use to Tachibana or other authors subjected to canning, as they were not permitted to leave their rooms until they supplied completed manuscripts. (The Japanese borrowed the word canned from Engllsh but modified it to kanzume.)
about an hour ago · Like · 2

Suzanne Levi-Sanchez
Ktabkhane kati khush va khohesh (Dari – Book house of desires and joy)
about an hour ago · Unlike · 2

Anou Raut Desai
Now we’re talking! BBBB has my vote, although I am shattered at the Prospect of yielding royalties on PPPP.
about an hour ago · Unlike · 2

Collin Piprell
Okay, now it’s stake-through-the-heart time for my router.
about an hour ago · Like

Suzanne Levi-Sanchez
Yup. I’ve heard that before.
about an hour ago · Like · 1

Collin Piprell
There’s still 10mins. till lunch; I should be able to finish that book.

]]> Comment on Some good things to do with an Internet addiction by Collin Piprell http://www.collinpiprell.com/http:/www.collinpiprell.com/some-good-things-to-do-with-an-internet-addiction/#comment-2146 Collin Piprell Thu, 05 Jan 2012 04:15:38 +0000 http://www.collinpiprell.com/?p=2252#comment-2146 Wow! They stole my idea. Can I sue retroactively? Once again, I fear, I have reinvented the bicycle. Is there really nothing new under the sun? Wow! They stole my idea. Can I sue retroactively?

Once again, I fear, I have reinvented the bicycle. Is there really nothing new under the sun?

]]> Comment on Some good things to do with an Internet addiction by Kim Jong Un http://www.collinpiprell.com/http:/www.collinpiprell.com/some-good-things-to-do-with-an-internet-addiction/#comment-2145 Kim Jong Un Thu, 05 Jan 2012 04:04:18 +0000 http://www.collinpiprell.com/?p=2252#comment-2145 For decades Japanese publishing companies have "canned" writers who were in danger of failing to meet their book or magazine article deadlines. The leading hotel to be canned in was the Hilltop in Tokyo, which happens to have the nicest nine-seat bar in town. Takashi Tachibana, the country's top investigative reporter, so greatly in demand that he had trouble keeping to all his many deadlines, was canned there repeatedly. The nine-seat bar was of no use to Tachibana or other authors subjected to canning, as they were not permitted to leave their rooms until they supplied completed manuscripts. (The Japanese borrowed the word canned from Engllsh but modified it to kanzume.) For decades Japanese publishing companies have “canned” writers who were in danger of failing to meet their book or magazine article deadlines. The leading hotel to be canned in was the Hilltop in Tokyo, which happens to have the nicest nine-seat bar in town. Takashi Tachibana, the country’s top investigative reporter, so greatly in demand that he had trouble keeping to all his many deadlines, was canned there repeatedly. The nine-seat bar was of no use to Tachibana or other authors subjected to canning, as they were not permitted to leave their rooms until they supplied completed manuscripts. (The Japanese borrowed the word canned from Engllsh but modified it to kanzume.)

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