John Passarella Author Blog

• Phillies: Wow! What a way to end a game. Unassisted triple play by Bruntlett, and after a couple errors/bad fielding plays. #
• All Of Rorschach's Secrets – Revealed! – io9 #
• LAST DAY! Order autographed SHIMMER trade p/b for chance to win Prize Pack. Winner selected 8/25: #
• Michael Jackson died from lethal dose of propofol: coroner – Yahoo! News #
• Watched FUNNY GAMES (2007) last night. Too post-modern & nihilistic for my tastes. Sabotaged any power it might have had through goofiness. #
• Amazon guarantees release-day delivery on Dan Brown's follow-up to THE DaVINCI CODE, THE LOST SYMBOL: #
• LAST HOURS! Order signed SHIMMER p/b for chance to win Prize Pack. Will select winner by midnight ET: #
• The SHIMMER Prize Pack drawing winner is… Detra F from Easley, SC! (Detra bought 4 copies of SHIMMER, so had 4 chances!) #
• Woke up to third Blue Screen of Death this week. This is not good. Every other week, I can live with. This, not so much… #
• Congrats, to Detra of Easley, SC for winning the SHIMMER prize pack! I'll be mailing her box-o-goodies by SAT. #
• Watched and enjoyed Sunshine Cleaners, quirky drama with a dash of humor about two sisters who make a living cleaning crime scenes. #
• Watched the Eagles bumble to a pre-season win, Phillies botch a late lead. Getting closer to a client site launch. Overdue eye exam FRI. #
• Catching up on FreakAngels, free online comic. #
• Back from eye dr appointment: eyes fully dilated. Near vision blurry/cloudy for a while. #
• As seen in Windows Secrets, Annoying tweeters meet their zombie demise from Tweetlejuice: #
• Found out official name for my eye condition (which flares up now & then): recurrent corneal erosion. Sounds worse than it is. Basically. #
• Watched The Strangers (sorta like Funny Games), better than FG, but I don't get the pointlessness of these movies. "Story" failure for me. #
• Just back from the post office where I mailed the SHIMMER prize pack to Detra in Easely, SC. They tell me it will take 2 days to arrive. #
• Phillies: Cliff Lee proves he is, indeed, human after all. Watched War on Showtime. Bit muddled, not wasn't expecting much from an actioner. #

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• Saw District 9 with my sons. Enjoyed it a lot. Wonder if they'll be a "District 10" sequel in "3 years", per Christopher Johnson. #
• Finished client's weekly podcast & announcement. #
• Between Books, Claymont DE, (again) sold out of signed copies of SHIMMER, so I'm taking 10 more copies over today. #
• Final 3 days: Order autographed SHIMMER trade p/b for chance to win Prize Pack. Winner selected 8/25: #

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• Finished converting a site comp to a layout for a new Web design client. Waiting for feedback before placing content for the other pages. #
• Phillies are cruising. Eagles looked apathetic. Yes, it's preseason & yes they have injuries, but aren't some guys fighting for jobs? #

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• Feeling < motivated to work on my birthday as I contemplate my mortality. Having a rum & coke to celebrate since the fixins were at hand. #
• Final 5 days: Order autographed SHIMMER trade p/b for chance to win Prize Pack. Winner selected 8/25: #

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• SHIMMER flavors: Kindle: – eBook: – Autographed trade p/back: #
• A massive black storm cloud is moving over our house like an alien mother ship about to take prisoners. #
• …And the Phillies announcers just compared the dark cloud moving over the stadium to Independence Day. Nasty lightning, booming thunder. #
• Thanks to all my Twitter followers, Facebook and MySpace friends for the Happy Birthday wishes! #

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• Lot of reading today; been out of touch. Looking to get a few client web updates done before turning in. #
• A Blue Screen of Death is not a fun way to start the day. Worse, my PC takes 45 minutes to get back to work responsiveness post reboot. Ugh! #
• Terminator Litigation: Did Terminator 5 Just Get A Lot Less Likely? – terminator – io9 #
• Anyone know how to recover from a WordPress auto upgrade failure? Stopped at upgrading database. Just nothing. Stuck in maintenance mode. #

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• Looks like Firefox is back to not working with Twitter again. Getting my "Whoops!" messages which were constant post hack attack. #
• @amy_grech Was fine until today. When I try to follow-back or post, I get the "Whoops! Something must be wrong." message. in reply to amy_grech #
• @jackiebrown20 Thanks. Hope the library has it for you! in reply to jackiebrown20 #
• Just watched Brad Lidge botch another save with sloppy fielding & play in the bottom of the 9th. The shine is off the perfect season. #
• Another good Being Human tonight. Heart-wrenching story. Must have been a very hard choice to make. #
• @angiebatgirl I've really liked Joseph Gordon Levitt's indie flicks, Brick and The Lookout. in reply to angiebatgirl #
• Bad eye day today; postponed District 9 to FRI; instead, hrs of mowing, whacking, edging, not exactly great for the eye either, but needed. #
• @angiebatgirl Brick is cool, a kind of teen noir with its own dialogue (a fast-paced idiom), tricky to hook into. in reply to angiebatgirl #

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• Coming up for air after a few hours of Website design. Need to step back from the design table for a while to see things fresh. #
• Hoping to see District 9 as a birthday present of sorts this weekend even though my b'day is WED. Will probably need a babysitter for Emma. #

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• Got so tired up with hosting companies and registrars, part 2, that I forgot Phillies had an afternoon game. Time flies… #
• @AdeliaReid Best of luck to your husband for a successful surgery and a speedy recovery. in reply to AdeliaReid #
• @BostonMaggie Generally you gird your loins… with armor. 🙂 in reply to BostonMaggie #
• Literary Twitter: For writers, it's a 140-character development – USATODAY.com #

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• Today has been crazy dealing with web hosts, multiple control panels & registrars, email configurations, support tickets & mayhem, oh my. #
• Spent a low-stress night. Nothing on the tube. Read a book, while watching the Phillies cruise to victory. Need to gird myself for THURS. #
• Shimmer for Kindle is #38 on Amazon in Horror/Occult. Be nice to crack the top 10. #
• How Can Bryan Singer's BSG Movie Compensate For Leaving Out Six? – Battlestar Galactica – io9 #

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