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- January 11, 2010-- I'm happy to say that
one of my plays has been accepted for the Greenbrier Valley Theatre's second
annual New Voices Original Short Play Festival later this month.
This play's called "...and Tigers and Bears" and is a
thematic sequel to last year's accepted play "...to a
Flame," though with none of the same characters.
(This, I guess, is another entry in what seems to be developing
into The Ellipses Cycle of cryptozoological-based plays set in West
Virginia.) While "...to a Flame" was about WV's
infamous Mothman, "...and Tigers and Bears" is about the
various African lion sightings that happened in Greenbrier County while
I was living there and (coincidentally enough) happened last year in
Bluefield, VA, just across the state line from where I live
now. In fact, the receptionist at my wife's office was one
of the people who saw the lion, catching sight of it on her way to work
as it was gnawing on a cow in a pasture not far from her
neighborhood. It scared her half to death. My version is,
of course, a light comedy. Shows are January 21-23 and January
28-30 at the Greenbrier Valley Theatre in downtown
Lewisburg.
- In related creative news, I'll be doing a
reading of some sort at the Arts Day at the Capitol event in Charleston
on January 25, 20110. Not sure what I'll do yet or whether it
will be of a Horribly True Nature.
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- 9/5/09
Unlike most Twittererers, who tend to enjoy tweeting about their
opinions on paint chips, how many toblerones they've eaten that day, or
the number of squirrels currently menacing them, I have chosen a
different creative route for my subject matter. It is entitled
THINGS YOU FORGOT. TYF covers a wide range of trivial
information, some of which might even be accurate depending on which
parallel earth you happen to reside upon, other than our own.
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- 9/5/09 I have
also stepped into the Facebook river and am all socially networked, and
stuff.
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- 9/5/09 The WV
Writers Podcast continues
apace. We post brand new, 20 minute episodes every other week and
mini-bonus outtake episodes in the off weeks in between.
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- 4/23/09
I've taken my first step into podcasting with the WV Writers Podcast.
This weekly podcast is in promotion of both WV Writers, Inc. and its
upcoming writers
conference June 12-14, 2009 at Cedar Lakes Conference Center in
Ripley, WV. The podcast updates each Friday at 6:03a.
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- 5/8/07
Great Googally Moogaly, it's been another six months since the last
update! That's just terrible. Okay, so here's an update in
honor of the fact that I've now aquired the domain name MrHerman.com,
formerly owned by some Canadian web guy who was determined to sew
confusion. This update is also in honor of the fact that Dr.
Larry Davis is now reading my site and knows
some of the characters in this story. It's a previously
unchronicled Horribly True Tale called "The
Talkin? Mount Childless Wonder, Mama?s Little baby Loves Ziggurats,
Emergency Baby-Sitting the Borg Blues"
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- 11/2/07
Sweet
merciful crap, it's been nine months since the last page update?
Whooooo, that's a lotta months. Time for a page update! Let's
see...
what to update.... what to update... Well, I haven't had any
Horribly True Tales for a while. Let's throw up a couple new ones
in that department. We've
got:
- The
Talkin? No Distant Networks , Phoning up India, Won?t
be a Problem, Fighting
with The Man, DIRECTV
SUCKS ASS, Pooping an
Angry Monkey Blues,
detailing my battles with DIRECTV (which indeed sucks much ass).
- And
then we have a more recent tale, The
Talkin' Soul-Less
Telemarketer, Actual Fantasy Conversations Not Actually Heard at My
House Blues.
Oh, the pain.
So, feast ye mighty and despair upon these tales, my jainkees!
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- 3/20/07 Updated the
Catgames page with a brand new Hate
Mail Page, preserving the insults and threats against my person in
perpetuity. (Or, at least until they burn down my hosting
provider in protest.) This one is almost as funny as the emails I
keep getting from some Canadian guy who thinks the Ed Herman of this
page is also the Ed Herman from Ultimate
Fighting Championship.
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- 9/4/06 Updated the
Catgames page with several brand new catgames. Feast your eyes on
them HERE.
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- 7/31/06 Updated the links
page for the first time in fordamnever.
Ditched some broken links, added some new links and defecated a whole
live monkey. Now THAT was an adventure.
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- Speakin' of Adventures, one of my short
stories, "...to
a flame", was recently published in an anthology we at
WV Writers, Inc. put together called Mountain Voices. If you
buy a copy from the Authorhouse site above, all profits from the book
will go to help support WV Writers.
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- 5/24/06 Added two of my
published book reviews to the site. One is for Belinda Anderson's
latest short story collection The
Bingo Cheaters. The other is a collection of
illustrated stories by the late Shel Silverstein entitled Runny
Babbit.
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- 5/10/06 Hola, and
welcome to yet another long overdue update. This time I've
restructured my photoblog feature. No longer will it be a single
picture that never gets updated. Now it shall be a whole page of pictures that never get
updated. This is known as progress.
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- 4/3/06 Good day, and
welcome to a long overdue update. I've added a new
short story to the Prose Page entitled Blueberry Radio.
No
fantasy or sci-fi elements present. Just good old fashioned
gossip-mongering over sweet delectible berry bushes. Well, okay,
there is one sci-fi element, but you have to pay attention or you'll
miss it.
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- 9/13/05 added a new
short story to the Prose Page. This one is called Old
Country and is a tale set in 1980s New Auckland involving
creepy old ladies, the mafia and a quilt. Though this tale is
firmly set in the Avatar Universe, it stands on its own.
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- 8 / 7 / 05 Mister
Herman's Swag Shop is now open for business and Mister Herman T-Shirts,
coffee mugs, buttons and magnets featuring the Mister
Herman Partially Deflated Smiley Balloon Universal Symbol of Warped
Optimism are here for the taking. (By "taking", we of course mean
"purchase".) When I announced the shop here last week, I had
originally intended to use it to raise a little extra cash.
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- 7/30/05 It occurred to
me the other day that my website has been around in one form or another
for 10 years now. That's a decade to you and me. I figured
at the least I should do up some new graphics to celebrate. Then
I figured, why not sell some T-shirts and coffee mugs and make a little
green on the side. Which brings me to...
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- Mister Herman's Swag
Shop will be going live on Sunday, August 7, 2005. We'll
have lots of
Mister Herman T-Shirts, coffee mugs, buttons and magnets featuring the Mister
Herman Partially Deflated Smiley Balloon Universal Symbol of Warped
Optimism.
This will be an ongoing venture and I'm already designing some limited
edition merchandise for you fans of the Cat Games and Recipes
Page. So come back in a week for all the details and then you too
can start swanking up your pad with Mister Herman swag.
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