Author: Guy LeCharles Gonzalez

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RIDDICK’s Big Screen Return | GeekTyrant

About 10 years ago a relatively unknown actor, by the name of Vin Diesel, starred in a scifi/horror movie about a group of stranded travelers on a planet where hungry giant bat like creatures come out to feed in the middle of the night. Four years later that same character comes back to fight a race of conquerors who have a unhealthy obsession with death. And so… The Chronicles Of Riddick began. But, it seems to have stopped there. Well kids talk has been resurfacing again at the return of Richard B Riddick and all of his night vision ‘badassery’.…

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I’m still a Healer Idealist

Your Type is INFP Introverted Intuitive Feeling Perceiving Strength of the preferences % 44 38 38 44 INFP type description by D.Keirsey INFP type description by J. Butt and M.M. HeissQualitative analysis of your type formula You are: moderately expressed introvert moderately expressed intuitive personality moderately expressed feeling personality moderately expressed perceiving personality via humanmetrics.com I took this test 4.5 years ago and was typed as an INFP then, too, though much less introverted than I apparently am now, which seems...oddly right, actually. Overall, Keirsey's "Healer Idealist" description still suits me, especially this part: "At work, Healers are adaptable, welcome new…

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You are not your iPhone, not your Kindle

tin robot by Dirty Bunny
tin robot by Dirty Bunny

“Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn’t have to experience it.”
—Max Frisch

That an author needs to establish their own marketing platform nowadays has pretty much become a given, but I’ve seen many complaints about how difficult and time-consuming it is, and of course there’s the predictable flood of marketing gurus pushing all kinds of technology-enabled solutions to make things “easier”.

Some are well-intentioned and worthy of consideration, like the next-generation “social publisher”, Cursor, and the new, marketing-centric Writer’s Digest Conference. Others are just quick cash-grabs, like the brazenly opportunistic Twitter Boot Camp and 140 Characters Conference, my favorite description of which came from Loren Feldman: “biggest circle jerk of nothingness“. (NSFW!)

As Twitter’s still feeling the effects of last week’s crash, and Facebook’s acquisition of Friendfeed have shown, focusing on specific tools is the wrong approach, and limiting your platform development to your online presence is a recipe for disaster.

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Fight Club

via imdb.com TYLER You were looking for a way to change your life. You could not do this on your own. All the ways you wished you could be...that's me! I look like you wanna look, I fuck like you wanna fuck, I'm smart, capable and most importantly, I'm free in all the ways that you are not. JACK No... FLASHBACK - EXT. PAPER ST. HOUSE - BACKYARD - NIGHT Jack stands in the yard, vodka in hand, yells at Marla. JACK Tyler's not here. Tyler's went away. Tyler's gone. MARLA What? INT. HOTEL - RESUMING JACK This is impossible.…

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The Annual Gallup Inter-Tribal Indian Ceremonial

Since 1922, the people of Gallup, New Mexico have been proud to present the Gallup Inter-Tribal Indian Ceremonial each summer. A unique opportunity to immerse yourself in Native American arts, cultures, and traditions, “Ceremonial”, as it is known throughout the region, is a special time when indigenous peoples from throughout the United States, Canada, and Mexico travel to Gallup to share the best of their creative and performing talents and diverse heritages with the rest of the world, and to reunite with other indigenous groups. Nowhere else on Earth can you experience tribal ceremonial dances, a contest pow-wow, indoor and…

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The Unbreakable Dark Knight Double Feature

I have the house all to myself for the next couple of days, and a rainy Sunday is the perfect time for a double-feature of the best "superhero" / "comic book" movies ever: Unbreakable and The Dark Knight. The former is highly underrated (and still holds up), the latter justifiably lauded; both are the best movies either director has made to-date. Feel free to disagree, but you'd be wrong!

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