patrickwhitehurst
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My brand new-to-me car got a little dirty in the drought, but now I can wash it. The sparkle of diamonds will have nothing on my Volvo after I get done dousing that thing. After all, I got told by California American Water I should pay more because I used less of it during the…
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Its weight is the first thing you notice. It’s not ashamed of it. Not looking to be sleek or refined. It’s a workhorse, full of metal and grit, and the typewriter knows it. You wouldn’t want it any other way. Like a boulder tumbling through the river of time, your typewriter is a reminder of…
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Dainty canned piano music plays in my left ear courtesy of the Internal Revenue Service and their help line. “Our representatives are still helping other customers. Please continue to hold.” I should have been counting how many times they said it. The piano music isn’t enough to make me fall asleep, but it tries. Did…
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Spoiler Alert! Do not read if you have not seen Star Wars: The Force Awakens If you do not care, keep on keeping on Lincoln kept his hat on. Not sure why. It’s not like we were going to have our pictures taken or anything. If anything, people would think he was an actor on…
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I know I am excited. I know I think about it every single day. I know I can’t wait. At the same time, I fear it will go by so fast that it’ll be over before I know it. Or it will be so alien to how I think I’ll leave with no real idea…
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So many books and no time to nerd out. Less than one book a month; that was all I could muster in ’15. I very nearly cleared twelve, so I was close. Had I finished that bad ass Six Million Dollar Man book I would have made it to one book a month, but alas.…
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My 101-word short story took second place in the Monterey Weekly’s recent short fiction contest. And they used my doobie-smoking Jedi kittie on the cover of the print edition. Pretty exciting. Click here to read the stories.
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While hard at work editing my soon to be published book/comic/news project “Mantula: have some discord” (collecting the entire online “Mantula” story), I thought I would share the process a little. This keeps me from editing, so it’s worth the effort. But then I thought, how boring, who actually reads blogs about someone editing a…
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Photo/Kip Mooney A tarantula and a quail are clearly visible leaping from a burning apartment in Cottownwood. (Online news article) Lone wolf reporter won’t stop By Kip Mooney Verde Valley Blog News VERDE VALLEY, Ariz. – It’s true that I am responsible for the fire in Cottonwood that destroyed a handful of apartments. It’s true…
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Doug kind of likes California California’s nice if you can find parking. There’s ocean here where I live with Diana, fog in the summer, rain, humpback whales breaching in Monterey Bay, and dolphins of all types shoot the tubes along Marina Beach. It’s a lovely place. It’s also a place where regular folk are choked…
Patrick Whitehurst 