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Um, Hello There (or: Oops, I Wrote a Book!)

Posted by Ocelopotamus on February 7th, 2009 at 2:32 pm

So, yeah. No beating around the bush. I kind of disappeared from this little corner of Lower East Blogistan for about four months.
What happened is that I was writing a book.
Yes, it’s a book about Facebook. A Facebookbook.
See, for the last nine years I’ve been freelancing for Peachpit Press as a tech writer […]

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Tags: Meta · Culture · Tech · Journal · Books · Facebook · Facebook Me!

Wordslingers Appearance Now Online, and Poem of the Week on Deep Dish

Posted by Ocelopotamus on June 4th, 2008 at 12:41 pm


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Tags: Politics · Culture · Blogs · Journal · Chicago · Barack Obama · Books · Poetry · Fringe · Performance · Lit · 2008 Election

Capes and Crumpets with Roz Kaveney

Posted by Ocelopotamus on May 4th, 2008 at 1:18 am


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Tags: Blogroll · Culture · Blogs · Journal · Chicago · LGBT · TV · Books · Superheroes · Lit · Science Fiction · Doctor Who · Transgender

With Six You Get Blogroll

Posted by Ocelopotamus on April 22nd, 2008 at 12:46 pm


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Tags: Blogroll · Meta · Politics · Culture · Music · Blogs · Journal · Chicago · New Wave · Internet · Books · Oobleck · Neo-Futurists · Animals & Environment · Mike Scott & The Waterboys · Even in Blackouts · Modern Rock · Vegetarian & Vegan

Comical Cartoon Comics

Posted by Ocelopotamus on April 22nd, 2008 at 2:17 am


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Tags: Politics · Culture · Books · Comics · Nature

Bookshelves vs. Blogging: Cage Match

Posted by Ocelopotamus on March 2nd, 2008 at 5:30 pm


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Tags: Meta · Journal · Books

R.O.U.S.

Posted by Ocelopotamus on December 18th, 2007 at 4:06 pm


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Tags: News · Science · Comedy · Film · Books · Animals & Environment · Nature · Fantasy

Force of Hobbit

Posted by Ocelopotamus on December 18th, 2007 at 3:18 pm


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Tags: News · Culture · Film · Books · Ian McKellen · Tolkien · Fantasy

Roundup: Flight of the Humpback Edition

Posted by Ocelopotamus on November 19th, 2007 at 2:46 pm


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Tags: Politics · Culture · Music · Tech · Blogs · LGBT · Media · New Wave · The B-52's · Film · Climate Change · Apple · Barack Obama · Books · Superheroes · Comics · HIV · Lit · Star Trek · AIDS · Animals & Environment · History · Torture · Human Rights · Software · David Bowie · Nature · Feminism · Civil Rights · Kurt Vonnegut · Religion · Journalism · Macintosh · China · Fiction · The Economy, Stupid

Norman Mailer Yap Attack

Posted by Ocelopotamus on November 12th, 2007 at 3:31 pm


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Tags: News · Culture · Blogs · LGBT · Gore Vidal · Books · Lit · Pets · Dogs

Chicago Notes: Spukt, Sweat Girls, Mr. Fluxus, Andy Bayiates, and More

Posted by Ocelopotamus on November 10th, 2007 at 9:07 pm


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Tags: News · Politics · Culture · Blogs · Journal · Chicago · Comedy · Books · Theater · Oobleck · Neo-Futurists · Fringe · Performance · Lit · Iraq · History · Foreign Policy · Fantasy · France · Fiction · Middle East · Astrology · Art

Roundup: Where All the Corn Cobs Are Edition

Posted by Ocelopotamus on October 29th, 2007 at 1:36 am


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Tags: News · Politics · Culture · Music · Science · Tech · Food · LGBT · George W. Bush · New Wave · The B-52's · Film · Climate Change · Internet · Books · Comics · HIV · Star Trek · AIDS · Health · Advertising · Animals & Environment · Human Rights · Nature · Punk · Labor · Civil Rights · Fantasy · Pets · Europe · Healthcare Crisis · Law · Justice System · Organic Food · Roundup · Fiction · India · Death Penalty

No Backsies

Posted by Ocelopotamus on October 24th, 2007 at 11:26 am


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Tags: Politics · Culture · LGBT · Media · Film · Books · Lit · Science Fiction · Human Rights · Civil Rights · Education · Tolkien · Fantasy · Fiction · India

Of Dykes, Blankets, and Blockheads

Posted by Ocelopotamus on October 23rd, 2007 at 3:05 pm


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Tags: Culture · Journal · LGBT · Books · Comics · Lit · Fiction