John Passarella Author Blog

• Our 2.5 hrs of yard work turned into 4 hours when we had to cut down too LARGE branches (in danger of falling) on a front yard tree. Whew! #
• Disney to buy comic book powerhouse Marvel for $4B – Yahoo! News #
• No luck getting ADVENTURELAND through Red Box for $1. Might have to break down and pay $5 at Blockbuster. No, I don't torrent, on principle. #
• Worked on & posted bunch of photos for client's site. Hard to believe it's SEPT already; faster year I've had, relatively speaking, natch. #
• Twitter-Only 1st 2 to order signed SHIMMER p/b get my $4 flip chapbook FREE. DM B4 order to C if U won #
• Read & enjoyed a lot of Westerfeld's YA fiction this year. Leviathan ( ) due out OCT 09. Trailer: #
• SEPT 12 – SAT 2-4PM – SHIMMER Book Launch Signing. Call Between Books, Claymont DE to reserve a copy 302.798.3378 #
• Took Emma to meet 3rd Grade Teacher. Ordered copies of SHIMMER for SEPT 12 signing at Between Books. Fingers crossed they get here in time! #
• WhoCrashed blames my last 40 blue screens of death on symevent.sys (Symantec Event Library), but is it the cause or the effect of the crash? #
• Working on characters for new novel (for new series), characters @ center, setting/world around that, then plot. Don't always work this way. #
• Just scored 'The Principles of Successful Freelancing' for free! http://twitaway.com #twitaway #
• Organizing Tweetdeck followers by groups. If you're an author, reply w/ #author; if you're a book lover, reply w/ #reader. Both? Use both! #
• RT @amazonmp3 Celebrating 1 million followers! Get 1 song. Limited-time only. Restrictions. Code FIRSTMIL. Details http://snurl.com/firstmil #
• @lynnaj Thanks. Had to add you manually. You weren't showing up as a follower of mine in TweetDeck for some reason. in reply to lynnaj #
• How did I miss this? Imogen Heap's new album (ELLIPSE) is out: #
• Some web updates, client mailing list updates, run to post office foiled by early closing. Had oped to avoid a SAT trip to P.O. #
• Organizing Tweetdeck followers by groups. If you're an author, reply w/ #author; if you're a book lover, reply w/ #reader. Both? Use both! #
• "Dexter" author offers latest tale of murder: (love the show; haven't read the books, but might soon) #
• @the_chrishall Enjoyed it a LOT. As did my sons, 12 and (almost) 16. in reply to the_chrishall #
• Fall Books: Brown, Albom, Crichton, King, Sparks, Grafton big names to watch (USATODAY): #
• Watched Serenity again. Been so long since I watched it, I was able to enjoy it like it was the first time all over again. #
• Just sent a mass mailing to my clients about the new WordPress attack & the need for WP users to upgrade to version 2.8.4 immediately. #
• Houston we have a problem: Lidge blows another save for Phillies — in Houston. Scales really balancing after his perfect season in 2008! #

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• 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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