The Skwib
Blog URL http://markarayner.com/blog/
Located London, Ontario Canada
Tags humor, humour, satire, fiction, comedy, speculative fiction, The Amadeus Net, novelist, humorist
The Skwib -- Mark A. Rayner's irregular and explosive weblog, a daily sputtering of satire, comedy, and odd, odd fiction.
Latest Blog Posts
- The Magic Donkey on Nov 20, 2009 in flickr magic donkey panda spewing rainbows photos searcher
I love Flikr. I can spend hours looking for images, and I’m easily distracted by all the shiny new art I can find there. In particular, I find the absurd and surreal groups quite engrossing. What I didn’t know was that Flickr culture i...
- Marvellous Hairy is now an eBook! on Nov 19, 2009 in Skwibby fiction eBooks Marvellous Hairy Smashwords
For those of you waiting to experience the thrills, the laughter and the dementia of Marvellous Hairy until it was in eBook form, your wait is over. You can find it in all the major formats at Smashwords for only $3.99 US. Yes, you read that correc...
- Seeking cherub-monkey parity — the conversation continues on Nov 18, 2009 in Skwibby fiction angels authors conversations fabulist satire linoleum Marvellous Hairy Mercury Falls monsters parody
Welcome to the second half of a conversation between Rob Kroese, author of Mercury Falls and Mark A. Rayner, the scribbler behind Marvellous Hairy. You can find the first half of the conversation at Rob’s blog, Mattress Police. Check it out a...
- I love lamp … no, wait on Nov 17, 2009 in college humor parody Pixar satire video
Beware the adorable, yet homicidal lamp. A brand parody of Pixar: You can find it here, if the embedded video crushes your browser. Brought to you by alltop, humor-blogs.com, and the letter “z”.
- Writted good! on Nov 17, 2009 in Skwibby fiction
Okay, I’ve got to be honest, Nanowrimo is not going so well for me this year. This is due, largely, to the fact that I’m still somewhat distracted by trying to get some attention paid to Marvellous Hairy. I’ve been running a virt...
- Ask General Kang: I just read a novel about a guy being turned into a monkey — is that possible? on Nov 16, 2009 in Ask General Kang
I hate to carp on this point, but was he turned into a monkey or was he turned into an ape of some kind? I seriously doubt it’s possible to turn a man into a monkey, unless you’re talking about what happens every time you invest in unsec...
- Counterintuitive Fairy Tales: Doug’s Disaster on Nov 13, 2009 in Skwibby fiction bus global warming gun nuts media hype swine flu terrorists
Doug was freaked out. Global warming was going to melt his face (right after it killed all the polar bears and drowned the Maldives). It was a maxim that terrorists or free-roaming gun-nuts boarded his bus and either blew it up, or shot him with a se...
