Danny    Thompson,    Freelance    Copywriter


The world sticks to the paved roads. The roads are paths paved by industry. The paths are trails widened by the marketplace. The trails are hacked by the Weird, who leave the paved road for the sake of curiosity and wonderment. Where the Weird go, the world follows.

Archive for January, 2005

AAAAaaaaaaagggghhhhh!

Monday, January 31st, 2005

*Ahem.*
I repeat:
AAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaggggggghhhhhhhhh!
First Amendment No Big Deal, Students Say

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Hey, you!

Monday, January 31st, 2005

Yes, you.
Read this. Now.

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It’s that time of year again…

Monday, January 31st, 2005

The ADDY’s are coming ’round once again and we’re busy getting things ready to submit (while maintaining our 110% effort for our clients, of course).
It’s funny how you can go all year without giving it much thought, and then, there it is, and I get all excited like a kid at Christmas (of course, […]

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Monday, January 24th, 2005

Numanuma
Sorry. I know that’s a couple of minutes you’ll never get back.

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A new, fun exercise: Write in this vein.

Monday, January 24th, 2005

The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest: “Since 1982 the English Department at San Jose State University has sponsored the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, a whimsical literary competition that challenges entrants to compose the opening sentence to the worst of all possible novels.”

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On Television

Monday, January 24th, 2005

Roy Williams has been pondering television and it’s place in society (both rightful and actual).
Like Chuck Woodbury (you’ll get to him near the end of the piece), I’ve quit watching the local news. For me, it wasn’t just the constant focus on the negative; I’ve never been too affected (infected?) by negative influences in […]

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Methane Rain, River Beds Found on Titan

Friday, January 21st, 2005

This is too cool. I know, I’m a geek. But I don’t care. I still have a soft spot for certain areas of science.
Methane’s an organic compound…may we someday find signs of life there? Not sure about methane’s properties as a solvent–one of water’s key funtions in earthbound life processes. So maybe not.
Still, it […]

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