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Didn’t Die Young Yet ePub
Saturday, December 11th, 2010
You know, for Kindles
After week(s) of research and nearly as much real time hacking together a conversion, Didn’t Die Young Yet by Jacob Cholak is available for $3 on Amazon as an eBook.
eBook formatting is much more akin to website development than anything approaching or resembling design. I happen to know quite a bit about web development, and I was also horrified to see what any of the “pdf to ePub” or even “html to ePub” converters did to my beautiful little book, so I had to start from just about scratch and format that damn thing properly by hand. This involved a lot of mindless and blinding precision copy and pasting, liberal use of search and replace and the delete button. I had to write a number of scripts (shell and javascript) to expedite the tedium. I will probably write some set of tools that will make the translation of our other book, White Horses much smoother.
The interesting thing I found in my research into eBooks is that no-one really cares about them yet. The designers haven’t latched onto them because they’re still a fairly “ugly” format that lacks most of the control you get with the much more standardized and documented web. And on the other side, the programmers haven’t jumped in to flesh out those controls and standards, because it’s still books, which everyone knows is for the grandparents of extinct dinosaurs. This means that the whole format is in an exciting state where it’s still unpolished and developing. Commercially the medium is growing by leaps and bounds (we’ve all seen the charts), but, strangely for the internet, the technology is lagging behind just a touch. This is exciting news for someone both obsessed with books and internet technology. A fertile but unplowed ground to combine two fetishes.
So the (e)Book is up and there’s another one coming. Also if you’re a sucker for paper, the real thing is still on sale too: Didn’t Die Young Yet and NaDA has the fundraiser going on for the rest of the month. Please support our thankless labors.
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Short of Horror
Monday, August 23rd, 2010
A short piece of mine has just been put up on a horror micro-fiction site: Micro Horror. I unearthed it the other night digging through my box of google docs. Check it out: The Long Trail and its End.
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White Horses Elsewhere
Friday, July 30th, 2010
Doug and White Horses got plugged and interviewed the other day for a site called Thoughts in Progress. Read to exist. Also worth noting that White Horses is 15% off until August 13th if you enter the code: BEACHREAD305 at checkout. That is all. Here is the interview
“I think WHITE HORSES was my attempt to create something that might possibly make all these bad things better. Like I could weave a safety net out of words. Like I might be able to save what little I still had. I think all these desperate factors together created a sort of poetry.” -Doug
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Letters to its Editor
Sunday, July 25th, 2010
“Dear, sweet Jelly Smithson:
It seems as though the great state of Indiana, while contemplating its many dead sons–maimed by bayonet, vivisected by grenade–grew a massive erection that turned out to be, as Bob Dole has since proven humanly possible, permanent. Ten stories high and topped with a dead sailor. O! how adored and adorned. What could be more patriotic?
I’ve been told by the butler to inform you that your mother expresses her deep love to you, Smithson, but it’s also been expressed that that love comes with a grain of salt. She knows where you come from and is unimpressed with its yeasty proclivities. But, you know, kin is kin. She’ll cherish you to the end, you disgusting, disgusting thing.
Flourish your burger like a barbecue chef flourishing his burger.
Delightedly,
–Marcel Proust”
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Achieving Failure
Thursday, May 27th, 2010
A bit back I composed an interactive meditation on failure for an open call from Several Pursuits. The task was taken up merely as a direction for thought/activity, and the objective was met (for me) as soon as the piece was completed, however, because it was a directed effort, it has hit a mark, and they’ve accepted my submission. Follow this link to Several Pursuits to bring you back here.
5:36:24…5:36:23…5:36:22…
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Last Day to Pre-Order White Horses
Monday, May 24th, 2010
Only 24 hours left to pre-order White Horses by Douglas W Milliken from NaDA. Order today and get it for cheaper AND better (personally stamped, signed, written, and drawn). After tomorrow it will be available for the regular $12 from Lulu.
Pre-Order White Horses. I should also mention that it is the author’s (pictured above) birthday today.
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Ten days remain to NOT Die Young Yet
Wednesday, April 14th, 2010
Ten days left to commission a story for NaDA’s upcoming collection of fiction by Jacob Cholak, Didn’t Die Young Yet. We’ve been soliciting stories from (friends and) strangers to compile into a book of shorts. Jake is one of the most legitimately brilliant and insane people I have the pleasure of knowing first hand. I highly HIGHLY recommend you take this opportunity to enable some fiction.
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Antithesis
Friday, March 5th, 2010
A nuclear bomb detonates with such incredible force because it is the ultimate collision with concrete reality. An Atom – inarguable. Prove enough points and we’re all reduced to… To imagine the energy of the Universe, of the moment(s) of its birth – the Big Bang, imagine all atoms simultaneously exploding. The total energy of all atoms in the universe. E=Mc2 where M (mass) = EVERYTHING. The whole history of activity back since the very beginning in one single event. Back to the pre-atomic. Back to the microseconds of speeding – seething plasma. A glowing glow – for there IS nothing else but the glow. All the energy only. Everything it takes to hold us together. We are because of a force equal to all of the energy in the Universe. The antithesis of thought is an atomic bomb.
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No sir, you are mistaken
Friday, February 26th, 2010
try I’ll, and error
“A man’s errors are his portals of discovery.”
-Joyce
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Didn’t Die Young Yet
Monday, February 22nd, 2010
New project from Jake Cholak & NaDA just launched tonight, Didn’t Die Young Yet: Stories for Strangers. We’re soliciting friends and strangers through Kickstarter for money for stories. Jake Cholak is basically furious, also a fantastic writer. This is a foray of an experiment. For now, pledge an amount to the project and you will receive a story written just for you. Pledge over $12 and you will receive a copy of the resulting book collecting all the stories written for the project. For the sake of perpetuating fictions.
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