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Lately I’ve been doing a lot of reading and writing (although I’ve probably been doing more reading than writing…) and I haven’t felt compelled to post anything because it seems to me that mostly I’ve just been boring and have nothing interesting to say. Since I don’t have anything interesting to say, I’ll talk a bit about some of the interesting things I’ve been reading.

First, I’ve been listening to  SomaFM.com, specifically the "Secret Agent" station. I discovered this thanks to a post from Wil Wheaton and so far I haven’t gotten bored with the station. It makes for an excellent soundtrack when I’m writing and I feel like my neck muscles have become thick and muscular due largely in part to nodding my head for hours at a time while listening to groovy spy-ish music.

 I’ve been developing an interest in the psychology of marketing so of course there are a couple of sites that I like. MarketingSyndrome has been a great resource for niche marketing on the web. I’ve also been keeping up with HorsePigCow, the blog of Miss Rogue the Pinko Marketer. Her approach to marketing is very different from what most people are used to, definitely a must-read if you’re into marketing and stuff like that. I’ve also been reading the blog of Will Pate, the new Community Ambassador of Flock, my favorite browser, which I’ve come to learn is actually still under a "developer preview" version and not even beta yet. Wow, if it works this well as a preview I can’t wait to see what’s in store for later. I wish I were a developer so that I could say more technical things about Flock other than just "It’s cool because it works and it does cool things." Seriously though, it’s cool because it works and it does cool things. BeyondMadisonAvenue is a pretty cool blog about advertising, it has everything from news to gossip to thoughts of the day.

In addition to web reading I’ve been doing some of the dead tree variety. I’m almost finished with "Pretties" by Scott Westerfeld and I can hardly wait to pick up the third (and final - oh no!) in the series. I started reading the George Saunders collection by the name of "Pastoralia" and he just had an article in the New Yorker, so yay, a new writer for me to explore. I can’t say much about his work since I’ve just started reading him but he seems pretty funny so far. Extremely funny actually.

I’ve been doing some writing as well. Mostly working on a web site that I started a little while ago. I just started a new fiction piece that I should be working on right now and I’m also working on another travel sort of article that is due soon (and that I should be working on right now) with another article due soon after that.

That’s what I’ve been up to. What’s going on in your life? 

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