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The 1Q Amazon Report
Posted on 04.06.08 by Widge @ 1:41 am

Well, I think it's pretty clear what the most expensive item you guys bought from Amazon through the site during the first three months of 2008: it made us so happy, we've already blogged about it.

But what were the most popular items, i.e. the ones that had the most repeat sales?

Well, by far that honor goes to Richard Simmons.

Richard Simmons

No, I'm serious. Various flavors of Sweatin' to the Oldies were purchased. Not to mention related titles like Disco Sweat and 60s Blast Off. On DVD and VHS, even. Plus some Simmons-branded exercise clothing. No shit. Hey, if the site (or Dindrane's review of Sweatin' to the Oldies) inspires you to get in some exercise, we say go for it. Lord knows we're parked on our butts enough here where we could use some.

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Knocking Down Walls and Stuff
Posted on 03.30.08 by Widge @ 6:04 pm

Okay, so we've made a couple of changes. First of all, welcome to the center of your screen.

I dunno, I kinda like it out here. Feels a bit roomier, you know? It started to get to where we were jammed up against the website that was right off the lefthand side of your screen. I know you couldn't see it, but man, talk about not having a side yard. Felt like living in one of those subdivisions where you can literally lean out your window and step into the open window of the house next door.

So we've done that. Also, in case you've noticed, we use tags. And when we are talking about something or somebody that we've written a few things about, we have a tendency to link to our tags so you can read more on that subject. So if I were to mention Mike Patton, and if you were to click through, you'd see something like this:

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I Have an Offer For You
Posted on 03.29.08 by Widge @ 3:54 am

Mystics on the Road to Vanishing Point book cover art
Magnificent Desolation cover art

Howdy, friends. I have a proposition for you.

As you are probably aware (or maybe not, because I frankly suck at self-promotion), I have two books in print. I'm working on some other things to bring back into print even as I type this. But for now: two books. One, a novel of regular straight dramatic fiction--that's Mystics on the Road to Vanishing Point. The other is a short story anthology--that's Magnificent Desolation.

They're available from Amazon right now. People continue to buy them, for which I'm grateful. I can see the purchases come through our Amazon affiliation. I've released them under a Creative Commons license as well, so you can download them for free. I realize my One Tusk site is dormant at the moment so here's some direct links here for Mystics and here for Desolation.

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We Pause to Say Thank You
Posted on 03.17.08 by Widge @ 1:29 pm

Samsung LNT4671F 46" 1080p 120Hz LCD HDTV

So, let me set this up. As you know--and as we try to remind you in a gentle, non-annoying way (one of the few gentle, non-annoying things we try to do on this site)--when you make purchases from Amazon through us, we get kickbacks. We figure if you're going to shop at Amazon anyway (and you are--if you read this site, chances are you order online a bit) we'd hope that you'd do it through us and so we get the kickback and everybody wins.

Everybody wins because while there are a few ads on the site and a few blatant reminders about our affiliations and eBay and other subtle hints about where to buy things (CLICK ME!!) there are certain things that annoy the shit out of us and we want to shy away from. Like those peel away ads that you see the corner of some sites. Feh. And those ads that pop up and suddenly you've got cavorting pygmies when you were trying to read an article and you have to find the miniature Close X button. I hate that crap. And ads that overlay themselves on videos. It's like when you're watching television and suddenly characters from another show pop up and cavort and advertise for their show, thus distracting you from the show you're trying to watch. Does anybody think, 'Oh, Psych, of course, seeing your cast's tiny bodies take up the bottom quarter of my screen suddenly fills me with a desire to see you!" No. No one thinks that.

Anyway, we don't do that shit. And we hope you appreciate that we don't. Even though, as we've mentioned before, we're trying to go pro with this so day jobs can be killed and we can give you more of this mayhem that you, for some twisted reason, seem to like.

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January's Greatest Hits
Posted on 02.01.08 by Widge @ 12:23 am
The Champions!

January is over. Everybody still with us? Still have all your limbs? Good. Let's take a look at the top posts for the month:

Needcoffee.com:

Daily Kicksplode:

Colors Are Overrated:

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