{"id":1033,"date":"2010-10-22T12:09:43","date_gmt":"2010-10-22T17:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/?p=1033"},"modified":"2013-04-14T21:44:37","modified_gmt":"2013-04-15T02:44:37","slug":"im-not-on-vacation-im-just-blocked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/?p=1033","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m Not on Vacation, I&#8217;m Just Blocked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No recent posts because I&#8217;m working on an epic post about Kindle, self-publishing and so much more.\u00a0 The problem is I don&#8217;t even know where to start or finish.\u00a0 In the meantime, here are some things for you to read and do:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>By all means, read this article in <a href=\"http:\/\/\">The New Yorker <\/a>about\u00a0 Glenn Beck&#8217;s extremist roots..\u00a0 It&#8217;s sobering and scary.<\/li>\n<li>Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/yearzerowriters.wordpress.com\/\">The Year 0 Collective<\/a> page because resistance is futile.<\/li>\n<li>Then go to <a href=\"http:\/\/eightcuts.wordpress.com\/\">The Eight Cuts Gallery <\/a>and read an interview with the frighteningly talented Cody James.<\/li>\n<li>Take a look at\u00a0 my novella <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smashwords.com\/books\/view\/6095\">The Death Trip <\/a>and take advantage of the freebie coupon offer (CF23W).\u00a0 It&#8217;s short enough that even if you don&#8217;t like reading on a computer, you can get through it.\u00a0 I guarantee that reading it is a more constructive use of your time than aimlessly browsing the internet.<\/li>\n<li>Check in again next week when I&#8217;ll be making an announcement about the print version of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smashwords.com\/books\/view\/19153\">Loisaida &#8212; A New York Story<\/a>, which I&#8217;m also giving away electronically <em><strong>this week only<\/strong><\/em> with coupon &#8212; BA97J.<\/li>\n<li> Both these books, by the way,\u00a0 are allegedly available in the i-book store, but I don&#8217;t know for sure because not owning the i-pad or i-phone, I can&#8217;t actually get in there which makes me want to slam this effing Mac against a wall.\u00a0 So if you are one of the hip elect who has access to the magical store, can you go there and buy the books because Steve Jobs could use a new pair of shoes, and then\u00a0 could you write a nice review or something because that would help put more money in Steve Jobs&#8217;s pockets.<\/li>\n<li>Watch this fun video from the <a href=\"ttp:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=y54FRMedT_s&amp;feature=player_embedded\">youbube<\/a> which should give you a laugh and has nothing to do with me and is not related in any way to my annoying self-promotional schemes.\u00a0 It made me smile and being the cockeyed optimist that I am I just wanted to share.\u00a0 Either that or I think it&#8217;s all going to shit very fast, and this will be our last collective smile before darkness descends, forever:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><object width=\"640\" height=\"385\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/y54FRMedT_s?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/y54FRMedT_s?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No recent posts because I&#8217;m working on an epic post about Kindle, self-publishing and so much more.\u00a0 The problem is I don&#8217;t even know where to start or finish.\u00a0 In the meantime, here are some things for you to read and do: By all means, read this article in The New Yorker about\u00a0 Glenn Beck&#8217;s &hellip; 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