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| | Spartacus: Blood and Sand | TV | QuarkMaster | 2010-01-31 19:37 |
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Spartacus: Blood and Sand on STARZ
If you aren't watching Spartacus on STARZ, I have one question for you.
WHY?
This show has more sex, more perversion, more exposed bare flesh than anything ever shown on TV before.
This show would make Skinemax blush.
It makes the movie 300 look like a Disney flick.
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Spartacus has:
- Full Frontal Male Nudity (of gorgeous muscled men)
- Wide selection of mostly gorgeious nearly naked men on screen nearly all the time.
- For straight men and lesbians: Lots of hetero sex and boobs galore (ala skinemax)
- For straights and lesbians: Lesbo sex. (hoping for some homo sex to come in future episodes)
- For Geeks: Lucy Lawless Naked! That's Xena to you.
- Perversion example: Husband and wife making love in front of their slaves, in order to get ready for sex, both husband and wife have slaves "fluff" them/pleasure them.
- BLOOD AND GORE: Graphic Novel/300 style blood and gore, unhinged acts of brutality.
- Higher body count than the Sopranos
- This is a show that treats slaves like the disposable property they are. You haven't seen slavery like this on TV before.
- It's from down under, from the people who brought us Hercules, Xena and Legend of the Seeker, only this is the X-Rated version of those shows, with about 10x better acting.
The only thing I can compare it to is Caligula. (Unrated version) If you liked Caligula, or even thought it a bit mild, then this is for you.
Follow the links to watch extended previews/scenes. (Actually today it looked like the whole episode 2--but I'd find that hard to believe.)
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| | More Long Time No Blog | Site News | QuarkMaster | 2010-01-31 19:13 |
| | Hi,
OK, been a long time no blog again. Got hugely tied up with work last several months. I'd been ramping up to continue on two long time in the writing stories along with my next Apprentice In Hell, but then got work backlogged. And then when time started getting free, I got attacked by another story that wanted to be written.
I'm currently writing on that, it was based on a discussion in SlaveNowForum regarding Randall's story about a slave used as a pet and went into dehuminzation etc. And that, plus maybe a bit of Avatar, through me to my new story.
It's basically SlaveFuture meets a.s.f.r. (if anyone remembers what that was/is) and like so many stories it was going to be quick one handed reading and then that escaped me and took on a life of it's own as this very new and different universe for my SlaveFuture story took on a life of it's own. Right now it's about 72 Word pages, and just getting to the super perverted stuff (although there had been a fair amount of mildly perverted stuff earlier). So I'm going to keep chipping away at this as fast as possible to get it done and out before something else overtakes my muse.
Of course, one thing that keeps me going on this line is Spartacus, Blood and Sand....see next (above) post.
QM
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| | Long Time No Blog | Site News | QuarkMaster | 2009-12-01 16:04 |
| | Hey,
So long time no blog.
Been totally swamped with work work and can't get caught up in this year.
I am however, still heavily percolating on things in my head. I have the finish for my current story Satyrcation ready to write down and the motivation, just not the time. It's a big "pan"sexual satyr transformation with nymph tf's as well and lots of freaky things like incest, heterosex, homosex, plantsex, beastiality, transgenderism.
Also really working through the outline to the sequal to The Island of Dr Monroe. Finally know what I want to do there and am excited to get started on that. Just want to finish off Satyrcation.
The Apprentice In Hell Episode III is half done, just need to get back to that as well.
Got distracted by James Cameron's Avatar, really want to see that super bad. Spent a couple days making my own Pandorans...still not super happy with them but getting close. I could also do some fun world building like in the movie...just not enough time in the day. But that would be fun, always wanted to make some floating chunks of land.
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| | Zerophilia on SHO This Week | Movies | QuarkMaster | 2009-10-11 18:41 |
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Zerophilia is an interesting/fun small GLBT film from a year or so ago that is now playing a couple times per week on Showtime.
It's about a young man who discovers he's a zerophiliac, a creature capable of changing gender at will. Like adolescent frogs that can spontaneously change gender.
So it's basically a teen comedy/romance/coming of age story about an insecure young lad who discovers he can/needs to become a girl at will.
I'd say its production and script are about typical of a good, GLBT film festival comedy. It's actually won awards at Breckenridge, Dalla and Ft Lauderdale festivals.
So it's better than most of the GLBT comedies out there, but not to the Hollywood level. (Which for many people is a big plus).
Obviously the special effects are not what <I> would want, but then if they were what I wanted, the movie wouldn't be on Showtime or on DVD or legal in many countries and several states ;) However, they are decent for a low budget films and in some scenes quite erotic.
Obviously, since I'm posting on it, I do recommend it for anyone interested in the coming of age/gender identity motifs in movies. It's about as good an example of the genre as we are likely to see in a film.
The images will take you to the official sites for the movie.
You can YouTube the trailer and a first TF scene, just search on Zerophilia, and it's at the IMDB |
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| | Satyr TF Music Video | Transformation | QuarkMaster | 2009-09-12 14:57 |
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Lugor over at CYOC posted a link to this super TF music video on the Tubes of You
This has got to be the best TF video since Thriller that I can think of...and the subject matter is far closer to my groin. It's the only Satyr TF Music Video I've ever seen (live action)
Unfortunately the group, The Cooper Temple Clause appears to have broken up, but they have other songs with interesting names, so I'm going to check them out. |
Unfortunately embedding for this version is disabled on da' Tubes so here is the link
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| | Alien Virus Rewriting DNA | Movies | QuarkMaster | 2009-08-14 15:05 |
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So, I managed to lose my original post on this movie because of a bug of my own design...nargh...will deal with that later.
Anyway, this is my plug for the new movie District-9 which comes from down under, Peter Jackson and is Weta workshop produced and Neild Blomkamp directed.
They'd gotten together to make the Halo movie and that fell through, but they still wanted to do a SF movie together so they put their heads down and this is what they came up with.
No one noticed, or seemed to care what they were doing down under and then wham here it came this summer to be a surprise. You've probably seen the trailers and the no Non-Humans Allowed posters.
What you may not realize is that it's an Alien Transformation movie!
Woo hooh! My kinda flick. It was the picture to the left that got me to paying attention, then some more reading and I was hooked. Posted on it last night, went and saw it today. Tried to reply to my last night post with new details and wiped it out. Nargh. Not sure what went wrong, used to be able to reply just fine. Nargh nargh.
Anyway, below is my updated post on my thoughts after seeing the movie.
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Saw it today...
Excellent. I'd put it up there somewhere between Mad Max/Road Warrior and Blade Runner in terms of SF films. I put BR pretty close, if not at the very top, and I think the Road Warrior and its predecessor Mad Max pretty much nailed the apocalyptic grunge future. Kahn is also up in those leagues.
It's style is very different, very 21st Century sensibility but at the end it's a story about humanity, or in inhumanity towards others.
And it was a True Transformation movice. Sure I might quibble about some aspects of the TF in terms of relative speeds...but it was pretty great/realistic. Just couldn't figure out why he wasn't happy and wanted to reverse it? Of course considering that Prawns are at best 3rd class citizens, I guess you could take it as a downgrade. But frankly, Prawn weoponry is pretty kick ass. And since only Prawns can use it...
There still remain some questions about what exactly happened when they got here, why things were so bad for them...but presumably we'll find out more in a sequel....director has said he'd love to do another one if this does well.
Box office to date is so so, but it was a cheap movie to make, can't believe only $30 M. However they relied heavily on the Weta guys from PJ's NZ stronghold. They have this stuff down pat. (Recall Black Sheep below) and that other trilogy of movies he did, name escapes me now...the one with the really short guys with big hairy feet.
Hoping that word of mouth gets people out there...it's something you don't see much of any more. Hard Edge, Visceral, Blood and Guts, "realistic" science fiction. Again, MM/RW and BR come most to mind.
And most importantly, completely original. Not a cookie cutter from a book, a tv show, a remake, a graphic novel...no a 100% completely original script (even if the theme/motif is pretty traditional/well known in the hard SF universe--just a very modern/today sort of take on it)
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| | Being Human | TV | QuarkMaster | 2009-07-26 23:07 |
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Being Human
As a rule, not sure why you want to be something so dull....however, this new BBC/BBCAmerica show sort of makes it clear.
So, a Vampire, a Werewolf and a Ghost share a flat...no it's not a joke...and while humerous at times, can also be very intense.
Watched the first episode, and took me a while because I was busy fretting about "innacuaracies" and the annoying habit of British series just "starting in the middle" but by the end was very happy.
Basic premise, that I can determine so far (lots of flashback story telling) Vampire and Werewolf meet up, realize that each is odd, and fighting internal demons of their "curse" if you will. Decide to take a flat together, and what do you know, said flat is haunted by a ghost.
At first only they can see ghost chick/or talk to her/drink her tea but she's learning to interact with rest of world.
I.e. all three have huge "crosses" (pardon the pun/term) to bear in trying to just "live" a normal life.
Vampire is trying to stay "on the wagon" and not kill anymore or create new vampires.
Werewolf is trying to not eat anyone after he changes. (Previews may indicate he tries to learn to control it)
Ghost is trying to get her "life" back as much as possible.
Positive things:
- Ghost is very likable/british babe type and very believable.
- Cause of ghostism seems to be standard--thus implies mystery--she doesn't know why she's dead, thought accident, but why is she still around--therefore there must be more to it.
- Werewolf boy is naked a lot and transforms a lot
- Werewolf transform is not bad for TV
- Infection story is consistent with modern "theory" of infection.
- Vampire guy is hot, and horny
- Vampires are blood sucking fiends
- Turning seems (by the end of Ep 1.) to be traditional ala Anne Rice---but at first was not clear, looked more like unstoppable plague.
- Traditional group of vampire evil types trying to get hero vampire off the wagon....looks like complex local mythology coming.
Negative Things:
- Goddamn vampires don't toast in the sunlight.
- There were lots of vampire things driving me nuts during this episode most were cleared up, but NOT this. Vampire seems to run around in daylight, or cloudlight.
- Nothing cinders my flesh like a sun hogging vampire who gets by with sunglasses.
- I can forgive a lot (crucifices, holy water--they don't work on me after all)
- But sunlight, NOPE, sunlight toasts a vampire. This alone makes Twilight "shit" no matter how otherwise "cute" [Barf]
- Only full "face" shot of werewolf caused me to cringe. Other shots/body shots were good. But when it turned to look at the ghost. Thought I was in a grade Z movie...hope that was one time badness.
Cringe-but-deal with it things:
- "His time of the month" jokes at werewolf's expense.
Anyway, surprisingly...good...yes there are flaws...but this is a really different take on the whole vampire/werewolf/ghost sort of stuff.
It's all about how does one actually cope with having said "affliction" and yet still try to get on with a normal life?
Worth checking out. First US episode was Saturday night, reruns will be happening and of course there is EZTV and bittorrent etc.
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| | More Blood | TV | QuarkMaster | 2009-07-26 22:45 |
| | So True Blood continues its insanity.
A lot of Greek going on. More and more gay going on. Lots of shapeshifting going on.
This Mary Anne chick, is some totally crazy greek sorceress who has a big thing for shape shifting, orgies, minotaurs and satyrs. And not all in that order. She's also a major free loader...apparently...
She really loves the orgies. Seems to "induce" one every week. Also goes around inciting anger management sessions in people who don't do what she wants. Looks like maybe some sacrificial stuff too.
She also has some weird claw like issues, seems to turn people into shape shifters/weres and loves wearing a minotaur mask head...or maybe is a female were-minotaur....not at all sure.
Then there is the hunky 2000 year old, Scandinavian, teen-age bisexual vampire that's in heavy duty religious bondage at the moment
Of course don't forget the gay prostitute, tortured and nearly died for selling vampire blood, drug dealer, LaFayette, who is now selling vampire blood on orders from vampires.
Not sure, but I think the sullen/recluse battle fatigued/scarred Iraq war veteran-fellow cook may be falling for LaFayette...might have a relationship there...although he goes to orgies with a female waitress...but think that is more to do with crazy greek sorceress bitch.
Or the sex starved Tammy Faye Baker woman who is cheating on her nutjob militant preacher husband with the oh so studly brother of our heroine. (who eventually ends up as a Were-Panther)
Or the 20 something mother's boy who freaks his prudish mom out by telling her and her friend he's dating a vamire and then invades a vampire hotel to find her.
Nor the nerd-cutie Son-of-Mathew-Broderick type telapath who worked at the Vampire Hotel and gave Sookie (our heroine) a huge "you are not alone boost"
Or the bloodsucking nutjob of a maker to our heroine's boyfriend who is one sadistic bitch.
And of course, Eric, who wants Bill out of the way so he can have his way with our heroine, Sookie.
This is like the ultimate fantasy/were/gothic/vampire/TF-Fetishist soap opera. I'd love to read the books but don't want to spoil the show.
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| | Now We're Cooking with Pan! | TV | QuarkMaster | 2009-06-15 00:39 |
| |  | Greetings
So, I just watched the first episode of Season 2 of HBO’s True Blood tonight and we've got Pan references (and Temple) and very probable mega-Greek activity coming up.
We also have: Vampires, Gay/Vampire rights, Transformation, Telepathy, Drugs, Prostiution, neo-gothic Hell scenes, Male nudity (butts, abs, chest) and of course lady boobs (it is HBO after all) and sex, sex sex.
True Blood is the HBO adaptation of the Sookie Stackhouse Mysteries, which is a vampire mystery series that was written post Anne Rice and Pre-Twilight, yes, before Twilight ever got started….
Sookie is a 20 something young woman of the South, who for no initially given reason, is a telepath and can read minds, not exactly at will. She lives in a universe where Vampires have recently came out in the world and revealed themselves. The entire vampire rights movement is more than obviously a metaphor for gay rights, right down to Vampire hating Christians that want them dead.
| Anyway, she ends up meeting this vampire Bill Compton when he moves back to town, he’s a vampire, the first “out” vampire most people in town have met, and Sookie discovers that she can’t read his mind. He’s blank to her, which is a huge attraction for her. (Note to Twilight fans…this was a totally stolen as a premise, just reversed) [NOTE: I have not read the books…only this TV show, Wikipedia and Twilight the movie]
Anyway, her other love interest, Sam Merlot, unbeknownst to her, initially, is a “True Shifter” meaning he can change form into anything he has a “template” for (get’s his hands on) Although normally he is a dog, his easiest form. Yada yada, lots of great drama in Season One. At end of Season one, this mysterious woman shows up and befriends a friend of Sookie who has had “issues” with Demonic possession (her mother, and theoretically herself) [and yes her friend, Tara, thinks demonic possession is a crock as well].
|  |  | Anyway, turns out Sam Merlot knows this mysterious, uber-rich woman of mysterious means.
So, now, Season II, in flashback we note that
- She’s exactly the same age/appearance now as she was 20+ years ago…Sam looks different (different actor) but she is not.
- She starts getting very magically weird during sex…very Clash of the Titans in my mind.
- She has this very freaky, very ancient fertility statue that Sam is highly interested in, then and now.
|  | Anyway, at one point, Sookie’s friend, Tara, is out by the pool, getting to know a young man, also a protégé of strange woman.
The friend, Tara, asks the odd woman, Maryann, what’s up with this strange carving on the wall beside the pool. We then have a cameara pan out, on the other side of the pool is a “pool house” that looks like an ancient Greek temple, in the center temple area is a large mosaic of a man with a very hairy ass and legs, obscured by a cloth, leaning over a naked woman.
Maryann replies that it is an image of “The Great God Pan” with his human lover. And things go on from there. What we learn in subsequent scenes is that this Maryann is very interested in having people to “get together” either for simple fornication, or for love we aren’t sure, but I am thinking perhaps love…given the romance of Tara and the other guest.
No idea who this woman is, but I’ll bet about anything she’s someone from Greek mythology. Not sure if I want to check on Wikipedia for more, I don’t recall any Greek stuff there, In fact, the stuff I read (last year) implied all Sidhe related stuff, Fairies etc. Not sure this is canonical with the books. But, whoever she is, she has a very huge fascination with Pan and with Sex, (and tropical fruits and wine and Pot) she is a very hedonistic psychologist/social work type person. | I should also note, one other place that the show and book canonically break is the character of LaFayette, who is killed in the first books, but lives in the second series.
He is gay and Tara’s cousin. He’s not only a cook at Sam’s restaurant, but a also a prostitute, with a website and a drug dealer, and a really nice guy. (He sells V (Vampire Blood) to Jason and well…long story…)
He now seems to be in “Hell” in a vampire dungeon or something…(vampires, neo-gothic dungeons, Pan, gay themes, hot nudity, shape-shifters—what’s not to love?) |  |  | I should also note that Jason Stackhouse, Sookie’s brother is an uber-hunk jock who takes a turn to the religious right, but who in Season 1 is naked, a lot, and is as hot as sin.
Anyway, if you haven’t been watching the series, time to rent the DVD’s, (Or On-Demand it) and then get going on Season 2. I think we are going to have a lot more Pan and Greek reTrue Blood Website on HBOlated fun this season.
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| | Miscellaneous | Site News | QuarkMaster | 2009-06-03 22:04 |
| | Hi,
So I am still working on my newest "short" story. Satyrcation. It was supposed to be short, relative to say "The Incubus" but it's going long...and I got tied up with work work. Hope to have it done in a week or so. It will probably be about 60 pages or so. I have trouble with short, short stories...
Satyrcation also sort of put on hold my processing of the pictures I've received from The Apprentice in Hell, episode 2. I've got half of them ready to post, but need time to prep the other photos. Apparently HellCams use a different format than normal cameras so I can't post what Balthazar provides, directly...
I discovered that the site had been having some email issues recently in sending out confirmations of sign ups.
If you've signed up for an account and not received an email, you should have, confirming whatever you typed as a password. If you experience difficulties, you can email me at archivist@quarkmaster.com (that's generally better than master@quarkmaster.com since I get a ton of mail from various places there, (Groups: yahoo and google etc)
QM
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| | Drag Yourself To Hell | Movies | Balthazar | 2009-05-30 19:11 |
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Greetings,
I, Balthazar, do hereby approve, and in fact demand, all loyal subjects proceed to the theatre and view this film. Drag Me To Hell
Naturally, I had my doubts about it, I point to Spider Man 3 as case in point, where the Venom suit failed to cement its hold on Peter Parker, among other issues; however having now reviewed this new movie, I can approve it.
I am frankly amazed, at the accuracy of this film. As far as I am concerned it's almost a documentary. Particularly given that...well, I can't say without giving information away...suffice to say, I was not displeased with it.
Further I fully expect that in the sequel an Apple Mac will be charging into hell with a chainsaw...
I've always wanted a Mac, I hope he comes with AppleCare and a fully loaded, heavy metal, iTunes library.
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| | Long Time No Post | Site News | QuarkMaster | 2009-05-13 17:16 |
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Long time no post. Evil Puppy was a bad puppy and forgot to update images as well. Had to swat him across the nose, but he got his images up today.
Since the last installment of The Apprentice in Hell, I have started work on Episode II and got side tracked by an extended family weekend last weekend and thus haven't completed editing it yet (they are snapshots sent to me from Balthazar in Hell).
I further got sidetracked when a Muse hit me over the head with a new Satyr text story that grabbed my brain and wouldn't let go. I hope to have that out soon.
Of course, I've been saying that about "The Incubus" for several years now. However, this story is a "short story" and I have a conclusion for it in mind, it's a real short story (for one handed reading) as opposed to "The Incubus" which is practially a novel for one handed reading over multiple of occaisions.
For comparisons, in the standard word editing format I use
- Dominance was 22 pages.
- Grandson was 36 pages.
- The Minos Project was 42 pages.
- The Island of Docter Monroe was 119 pages.
- The Incubus is "half done" or so, and is 127 pages.
- Satyrcation, which I am dong now, will probably be around 30 pages.
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| | The Apprentice In Hell: Episode 1 | Site News | Balthazar | 2009-04-12 22:31 |
| | Greetings Minions,
As you obviously recall (or else). I have put out a call for demon trainees, "apprentices" if you will. What with all the new reservations in hell from soon to be departed bankers (thank you, middle class peasants, I love a good uprising).
I have now received rsumes from several thousand supplicants and have narrowed the list down to the first 5; and they have been relocated to accomodations in my domain.
Rest assured these are not as nice as Donald Trump's.
If you are so amused, you may view their training and exploits on my website, www.damnedtohell.com. I have posted snapshots of the first episde.and will post subsequent images of their training and transformation.
The initial interview process is being conducted by my long time loyal servant, Lord Cornuto and his new Teaching Assistant, Adrian. (You may recall Adrian's recent suicidal decent into Hell).
-Balthazar
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| | Be-WERE of Sheep | Movies | QuarkMaster | 2009-04-12 15:53 |
| |  | Best were zombie sheep movie ever!
Now a lot of people will bad mout this great NZ import, but it's really great.
The FX are actually pretty good having been done by the WETA guys that did Lord of the Rings and the other Peter Jackson work.
Yes, it's a horror comedy, Undead Mutant Cannibal Were-Sheep, how could it not be? But there is great Transformation, mad scientists, some real horror and shocks, some homo-eroticism and some implied bestiality. What more could one want from a movie?
I saw it in the theatres and later bought the unrated version on DVD I liked it so much.
The left poster takes you to Amazon. The right poster takes you to the official movie site.
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| | Ssssss | Movies | QuarkMaster | 2009-04-07 16:49 |
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| So was thinking about various Snake TF movies last night, and remembered one of the true classics....
Sssssss which I spent a long time waiting for to come out on DVD, and which it finally did, and I watched it and forgot about it.
However, that was my bad, it's a great super cheesy seventies movie with production values about like you'd expect...of the let's say "$6 Million Man" sort...
But it's got all the classics: Mad Scientist on isolated ranch, young lad who stumbles upon the doctor and his lovely daughter and who gets injected with the doctor's serum and then slowly turns into a giant snake. What more could you want?
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| | Zelazny Met WS Burroughs and Visited Dante | Reading: Dead Trees | QuarkMaster | 2009-04-07 00:12 |
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Butcher Bird: A Novel of the Dominions
If Roger Zelaznay hooked up with William S. Burroughs and the two went off to visit Dante and found Neil Stephenson hitchiking and picked him up, this would be the book the four of them would write.
To the left is the picture of the hardcover, to the right the trade paperback. No idea why the big switcharoo. The left is the more "obvious" cover (and it is cool) depicting the two main characters and the sort of stuff that is going on (reality walking etc.) But frankly, the left is far more allegorical, and in my mind, truer to the spirit of the book, if not so obviously informative. (Although once you've read teh book everything on the cover makes sense).
And to be fair it was the hottie on the cover that got me to pick the book up in the first place, It's just a fantastically hot picture (and therein may lie the problem, those oh so tasty nipples and gorgeous tats)
Anyway, this psychodelic reality bending, mutilversal traversal trip to hell and back is a total blast and definitely one of the funnest books I've read in a long time. Of course any book with lots of demons, angels, wars between heaven hell and mysterious super-creepy "Black Clerks" is always worth while.
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| | Political Erotic Horror Satire | News | QuarkMaster | 2009-04-05 21:29 |
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So, yes, this link (Nature's Notes) is technically "British Political Satire" by Peter Brookes, but some of these images are, in my mind, highly disturbing erotic horror of the creepiest best kind. Thinking Naked Lunch etc.
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| | Sorry for some downtime | Site News | QuarkMaster | 2009-04-05 17:55 |
| | We had some downtime this afternoon...random attack of Microsoft...I did a .Net service pack update to fix and issue with another site of mine, and it hosed this one. Actually gave this site, which had been fine, the error I was trying to fix on a new site. Gotta love the guys.
Anyway took some finagling but should be back and fine now..
-QM
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| | Pride and Prejudice and Zombies | Reading: Dead Trees | QuarkMaster | 2009-04-05 12:09 |
| |  | The tale of the heroic Bennet sisters as they battle the hordes of "Unmentionables" overrunning their otherwise peaceful English village, Meryton. The lovely, well brought up young lady Elizabeth is determined to wipe out this vile menace of departed souls who don't have the good manners to simply stay dead and buried.
However, she soon becomes distracted by the arrival of the haughty and arrogant Mr. Darcy, and what ensues is a comedy of manners regarding the civilized sparring between young lovers, and the more blood soaked battle agains the undead.
--I just picked this up yesterday, after a friend's recommendation and lots of good reviews, so am reading it now--I don't normally recommend books I have yet to finish, but this is so delightful, I prey my readers forgive my brief indiscretion.
The book is a collaboration between Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith. It was, I believe, previously published in an edited form in 1813 as simply "Pride and Prejudice", the chapters regarding the "unmentionables" (aka zombies) were cut due to the delicate sensibilities of the readership, at long last today, a author's cut so to speak has been released with the full text.
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| | Favorite Fragments Part 2 | Reading: NetFiction | QuarkMaster | 2009-03-30 12:35 |
| | Ok, Continuing on my Favorite Fragments
- I can't believe I missed the SCRIM stories yesterday. I'd actually been search my hard drives for them on and off for the last 2 months wanting to reread them, but I couldn't remember their name or the author. Turns out...doh...
- The Monkey House at the Lowland Zoo: When De-Evolution is the best punishment around for sodomites and the like.
- Ok, now here is a very unusual costume story, which I love for its uniqueness: The Shadow
- Here is how the movie should have been done: House of Wax
More to come in Part 3...it's a smorgasboard of reading...and bringing back fond memories....I get so used to just looking at the "new" stuff, that I forget to go back and remember the old.
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| | Puzzling: Why is it considered horror? | Reading: Dead Trees | QuarkMaster | 2009-03-30 01:02 |
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So, for some strange reason this book is considered "Horror"
Clearly, it is erotica/porn that has been misclassified.
It's the story of a man who thinks he's lost it all, and is about to kill himself, when he is interrupted by the agent of a mysterious doctor who will pay him $1M for one of his arms.
And so begins an adventure into an upstate New York medical research facility where the good doctor likes to play Frankenstein with living people.
All the standard, enjoyable erotic things: Fleshsuits made up of multiple people's body parts in which living heads with only spinal cords attached are inserted. Unwilling donors, strapped to tables, unwilling recipients turned into "bleeders." People spending years as heads in jars (ala Futurama, but grosser)
It's a fun/light hearted piece of erotica, not very "horrorific" by web standards, but nice and fun in a very macabre way.
My main complaints are:
1) Ending is not happy by my standards
2) For some reason the doctor is considered evil
3) As is his wack job gay lover/security guard
--OK, so the security guard is an asshole closet case, and the good doctor is a bit unhinged, and has the ethics of a wall street banker...but does that make him evil? Just because he wants to chop people up and rearrange them? Grim, Grasp and Groan don't thinks so.
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| | Favorite Fragments Part 1 | Reading: NetFiction | QuarkMaster | 2009-03-29 14:20 |
| | Thought I'd share links to my favorite stories from Fragements.ws where Dave writes.
All are great, but these are my favorites:
- Nymphys and Satyrs is a very different take on how Satyrs come to be. I'd actually read something with a similar mythology a long time ago (regarding the relationships between humans, goats and satyrs) but don't recall where.
- Young Jackasses in Lust. OK this is totally bizarre a noir detective story with crazed transformationists and a great merging story that is right after my own heart (actually one of my favorite fantasies that I've almost written a story on a couple times)
- Curse of the Gypsy. I come back to this one again and again. It's like it's coiled around my heart.
- Scarlott Stallions makes me rethink high school sports.
- The Costume Shop another great Satyr story!
- I can't say why, but this is one of my all time favorites: The Curious Slave I had actually forgotten it was Dave's even though I've "read" it every few months.
Actually as I go through his site to remind myself, I'm going...shit there are a lot of stories I really love. That was just from the Furry section, and I skipped several that I am pretty sure I love but forgot about being his...so now I have to review those again.
And now I'm running out of time for this post, there is too much good stuff going to have to continue later...
But have to mention one of his oldest, which is what first reached out and drug me to his site..
More Favorite Fragments to come...
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| | Acccounts | Site News | QuarkMaster | 2009-03-29 13:59 |
| | We do have people signing up, alhtough no comments yet. But that because nothing to say.
Just want to make sure that all of you have signed up, got your email confirms. Let me know at
either master@quarkmaster.com or archivist@quarkmaster.com While I read the former daily when home,
the other gets a lot less clutter so emails won't get lost in the giant pile of Yahoo and Google group messages that flood my mailbox daily.
If the sign up screen said you were successful, you were, and can log in, even if you didn't see a confirm
email.
If you want to be able to initiate Blog entries, i.e. 'be a blogger' send me a note. I am beta'ing that now.
I eventually will have some controls to set up "blogger" pages. At the moment, everything is a single stream,
although you can group by :"Blogger" or "Commentator" and sort by blogger using the column headers.
--QuarkMaster
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| | New Applicants | News | Balthazar | 2009-03-20 16:11 |
| | Greetings,
Many of my loyal subjects have wondered why I, Balthazar, have not been posting as much the last week. Well, it turns out my reservations department got overloaded this past week. They were already overworked and miserable, as I like them, what with the glut of reservations coming from Wall Street; executives who made reservations in my domain by taking ridiculous bonuses for destroying their companies, but then last weekend we suddenly had a glut of reservations from AIG-FP people who reserved the most horrendous suites available in my domain. And after all, these are the people who destroyed the World Economy for me, so they deserve my best!
Of course, planning in Hell is about as bad as it is in Washington DC, so my minions didn't have enough suites available, so I've set them a digging new Oubliettes into which to throw these damned souls when they arrive.
Of course, my next issue is the hiring and training of new staff to torture these souls, believe it or not there is only a finite number of demons available, and the greed and corruption of the last several decades has far outsripped our ability to staff our facilities. Thus, DR (Demon Resources) is currently hiring apprentice demons. They need to receive at least 7 years of claws on torture before we can let them loose on bankers. But before that, they need to experience 6 years, 6 months and 6 days of directed torture, so they can learn first hand what is painful and what is exquisitely nightmarish. It's a 13 year plan, and we need to start now, I am pretty sure some of these bankers are going to be lynched by a mob with pitchforks once their names are released to the public.
So anyway, we are real busy down here. If you know anyone in need of work, have them send us their resume. Of course, realizing that working for me is an eternal commitment. You can't quit, EVER. You can of course get "Fired" so to speak, Heh Heh, but that's in the flames of Hell and is not as much fun as unemployment.
-Balthazar
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| | Hand Maiden Speaks | News | Balthazar | 2009-03-09 13:52 |
| | If you live in New York, Chicago or Boston do not miss my Hand Maiden, Ann Coulter, doing valiant battle with that vile "champion" of free will, Bill Maher in the 2009 Speaker Series.
Every time I think of that annoying Bill Maher character who thinks people should be "free" to do what they want rather than what I want...I get extra hot under my wings. Thankfully my beloved pet, Ann, will be there to battle him and extole the virtues of hatred, greed, arrogance and self interest.
NYC tonight, Boston Tuesday, Chicago Wednesday don't miss the Archon of Evil, the Dark Lady Coulter squash that easy going "love thy neighbor" "God & Satan don't exist" pot smoking nut job Bill Maher.
Remember the quote was not "Do unto others as you would have done unto you" it was actually "Do unto others as I, Balthazar, would do unto you!"
-Balthazar
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| | I Am Watching the Watchmen | Movies | QuarkMaster | 2009-03-08 03:31 |
| |  | Who is watching the Watchmen?
Hopefully you are, it's a great adaptation.
And it's got more full frontal male nudity in it than any other R rated movie I think I've ever seen.
Is it a perfect translation, no, but it's very good, I was very impressed by how much was preserved. It was not a slash job. It fully brought the graphic novel to life in my mind. Of course it's been fifteen years since I've read the book, I was going to reread, but it's buried somewhere very deep in my closet in an unmarked comic long box.
Like I said, I was very happy with the translation of Dr. Manhatten you fully got his sense of isolation, and he really did walk around buck naked when he wasn't doing his "official duties." Really didn't think they'd have the "balls" to do that.
And I also think they caught the core essence of most of the characters. Rorschach, Dr. Manhatten and The Comedian in paricular. Sally Jupiter as well. I do think Ozymandias could have stood some more work, as could perhaps Laurie, although I'm not sure they didn't cover most of the bases and there may just be limits to the character.
Anyway, I totally enjoyed it and found it's 163 minute runtime about appropriate.
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| | O.M.D! Best Reaper Ever! | TV | Balthazar | 2009-03-04 04:19 |
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Oh. My. Devil!
Was that not the greatest Reaper episode to date?
Or at least the most recent.
I order you all to have enjoyed it.
If you missed it, well, I shall enjoy feasting on your entrails.
You miscreants will perish shortly, and feel my wrath.
-Balthazar
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| | New Porn, Fixed Screw Up | Porn | Evil Puppy | 2009-03-03 19:07 |
| | Nargh...awoooooooo!
Mad at myself, found screw up in galleries for last 2 months where I had names and links right, but the link image wrong. So it looked like I was repeating the pictures of December for Jan and Feb.
Actually the names changed, and the links if you followed them were correct, but the image on my page was wrong. Bad doggy, bad....
Fixed that.
Added another set of Men for March!
-Evil Puppy
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| | Voted Smoted, Watch Reaper! | TV | Balthazar | 2009-03-03 18:13 |
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Who cares if you Voted for a politican?
Vote for the best TV show in Hell, Reaper on the CW, returns tonight at 8E/7C.
Watch it or die!
-Balthazar |
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| | Voted | Crazed Rant | QuarkMaster | 2009-03-03 17:29 |
| | So, voted in the primary today.
Yes it's election day in Chicago. Time to replace Rahm Emmanual who's run off to save the world economy at the expense of his neighbors.
Ah well. Whatcha gonna do, people seem awfully attached to jobs and having retirement savings for some reason, so somebody's gotta deal with it.
Rahm's seat of course is quite an hysterical seat, and I don't mean historical. I mean hysterical.
Not only did the colorful Rahm have it for the last few years, before Rahm it was held by none other than IL's recently disgraced "Rod the Bod" Blogo-jock-itch, the governor that wanted to sell Obama's senate seat.
Before Rod the Bod, it was a republican for 2 years, probably about the only Republican to represent a Chicago area House District in the 20th Century.
Of course the Republican had it because he ran against the Democratic incumbant, Dan Rostenkowski, who was in the middle of and then indicted and convicted of assorted corruption charges and spent almost a year and half in prison before Bill Clinton pardoned him.
Of course, not settling for one prisoner as his former office holder, Rod's predecessor as governor was George Ryan who is in prison for bribary (still one of the best governors in IL history).
George Ryan's predecessor was not a crook, despite having a crime ridden administration with scandels, but he did declare March 13, "L. Ron Hubbard Day" which tells you something about him.
So anyway, I voted for one of the two candidates in the race that are regularly/always marching in the Gay Pride Parade, and who seemed to have the best record on issues I care about.
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| | Satyr Netpublished Fiction | Reading: NetFiction | QuarkMaster | 2009-03-01 18:46 |
| | So, shortly after my last post I came across the following in my Yahoo Group: Satyr Life
Nathan Arzil posted a recommendation for The Last Paladin by Vaughn R. Demont.
You can read the recommendation on the group, but here is the link to the book, and it's description.
Starting at: $2.49
by Vaughn R. Demont
Closeted pagan and self-proclaimed prude Lennox Kingsley is the last person anyone would expect to be a follower of Pan, the god of lust and revelry. When he meets Karden, a handsome satyr, during a jog in the park, Lennox begins a journey he could have never imagined. Karden is about to show Lennox a world he's never imagined, but first he has to be initiated. Will this sacred knight-to-be learn to put his prudish ways aside?
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| | Dead Tree Porn...uhmm...Literature...err...Art | Reading: Dead Trees | QuarkMaster | 2009-03-01 18:29 |
| | I have bought a lot of porn over the years, both static visual, video, literary (and not so) and downloaded a even more.
Today I am talking about static image dead tree porn.
Mags are mags, and quite frankly end up being more expensive than than coffee table books. However, they have the serious advantage of being light weight and having spines that bend a lot easier than CTB's. But they are disposable and once you've seen one twink, one bear, leather dude you've pretty much seen them all, (of course I keep buying them anyway--because you can't see to many).
I think it's the poses and the backgrounds that sort of bore me with most of them, good for simple lust, but not great for the mind/imagination/soul. Nutrient free eye candy.
So this is where CTB's come in. Of course the vast majority of the CTB's are simply thinly disguised porno magazines. But there are some exceptions.
I think my favorite are the Paul Freeman "Bondi" books. It's real (hot) men in real (hot) situations, that yes I know never actually happen (why would a hunk be hanging around all grease covered in a mechanic's garage?)
But it doesn't look like the fake stagecraft of a pornomag to me.
You can see more of Paul Freeman's work at his website:
Paul Freeman Photographer
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| | More Recent Favorites | Reading: NetFiction | QuarkMaster | 2009-02-26 00:29 |
| | So now time for some more recent favorites from the web:
- Walking Sideways by Daymion at the NCMC
- Extreme Magical Body TF and lots of sexy weirdness
- Long in the Tooth by Calamity King also at the NCMC
- Very well written Grimm's Fairy Tale for adults, literary porno.
- Mappy's Monster Stories at CYOC
- OK, so not perfectly written, perhaps a new author.
- But what I liked about them is they reminded me of my early teenage sex fantasies.
- I didn't realize I was gay, but I knew I liked guys (me in particular) mutating into horrible sex monsters (preferably at the hand of a mad scientist...but wacky magic works too)
- ACK!!! Just went to metabods to look up one last old story and found it's been updated, at least stories with date 2/14/2009...going to investigate!
- What I went looking for was the classic: The Cock by Brian Ramiraz Kyle
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| | Norse Wolves | Reading: Dead Trees | QuarkMaster | 2009-02-25 23:48 |
| |  | In my next installment of Dead Tree Fiction recommendations, I want to recommend
A Companion To Wolves by Sara Monette and Elizabeth Bear.
You may recall Sara Monette from The Mirador trilogy (a gay wizard gets royally hosed over and lots of court intrigue) which is also quite good, although a tad heavy at times.
And of course Elizabeth Bear who has written way too many things to cover here.
ACTW is a very weird book. It takes place in an alternate Nordic world beset by Trolls. The villagers are guarded by the WolfCarls who are rather barbaric men who telepathically bond with giant trellwolves and go out troll hunting.
Very primal, very pack oriented. No physical transformation but the men due take on the mental characteristics and pack like behavior of wolves. For example when a bitch trellwolf is in heat, so is its partner (who, of course is male...) and there are the ritual battles between wolves and men to see who gets to mount the bitch (and partner).
I enjoyed it, the writing is decent enough, but the main reason I recommend it and think it is worth reading is because it's "out there" and unlike the vast majority of stuff in the Fantasy realm. It is a totally different fantasy take, and for that it's extremely worthwhile.
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| | Watch Reaper or Die! | TV | Balthazar | 2009-02-24 01:39 |
| | As a reminder to all my victims out there:
Reaper returns to the CW next Tuesday, March 3, 2009.
You are hereby ordered to watch it or I will feast on your bowels while my minions force feed you castor oil!
-Enjoy Balthazar
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| | Minor Updates | Site News | QuarkMaster | 2009-02-24 01:20 |
| | Did some minor updates/typos and other behind the things scenes tonight.
The new stuff is a bit more complicated because it needs to be compiled (at least for best performance).
Introduced an automated "Latest Blog" thing on home page, but home page is still ancient ASP code, not ASP.Net so to stick in an asp.net item I had to iFrame it and thus the links are whonky.
One other possible bug is with the outgoing emails this sends. When/if you sign up, you are supposed to get an email with your username and password....or you used to...that was broken/got broken. May have got it fixed.
It's mainly a security feature with the outbound mail server on the site, that I have to work around.
Even if you don't get an email, you will be activated with whatever password you typed. The problem will be the "forgot password" link since it was having trouble sending emails. You can also always just email me.
-QM
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![[Expand]](App_Themes/Office2003%20Blue/TreeList/CollapsedButton.png) | A Whole Pack of Fun | Reading: Dead Trees | QuarkMaster | 2009-02-23 15:46 |
| | OK, so here is a Dead Tree Fiction recommendation (e.g. a "book")
Joshua Dagon's "Into the Mouth of The Wolf" (also available on Kindle) is a werewolf novel told from the point of view of the werewolf, and thank god, these are no bleeding heart, lovey dovey werewolves. These are ravaging beasts from hell that would just as soon eat a person as talk to them. Or so people believe.
It's not a heavy book, and the end is a little anti-climatic for my taste, but it is a fun read and there's a lot of playing with media hype, crazed lawmen/military fear, lycophobia that says a lot about our time and how the media and the government deal with threats.
I'd call it a Werewolf novel for the "Post 9/11 Media Circus Age"
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| | Oldies But Goodies | Reading: NetFiction | QuarkMaster | 2009-02-23 15:39 |
| | So I thought I'd start of my new blog habit of posting links to favorite stories with some oldies but goodies.
- Headshop by Xformguy aka Alistair Bentley. An all time super classic.
- One of Alistair's earlier works is "Becoming", which is an interesting 2nd person attempt. Normally I don't like 2nd person, but I really like this story. While I have this 2002 story, I don't know where I got it/or where it's posted. At the moment, I'm not yet sure I want to start an online archive (what with emailing authors for permission and all that time consumption)
- A Reward by A.B. Zorro is one of my favorites because of it's very dispassionate clinical/scientific detail of the transformation.
- Adsorbing Passion by S.B. Douglass This thing is too hot and crazy for words. I love it.
- Metal Harvest and Metal Harvest Beta: Earth Defense Force The hottest alien brothel in the galaxy.
Not necessarily a lot of rhyme or reason, just perusing through my library for titles I know by heart and can easily find online links to. More later.
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| | How to sign up. | Site News | QuarkMaster | 2009-02-23 13:42 |
| | If you do want to post on the site, you can sign up by using the Login button. The window that opens will have a sign up screen.
Unlike, the forum, users are automatically approved if they give a valid email address. So no back log.
Eventually, there will be more forum like features and the ability to post stories, images etc.
As I mentioned on the main page, this time around I'm taking it slowly rolling out feature by feature, in the hopes of eventually getting stuff actually on the site and working.
A big reason for starting with the blog is that it will allow me to add content and links easily/fast and then can add more permanent places for them later.
In particular I have a few thousand stories written by various authors that I want to share/recommend/review.
In the past my approach was to start with an archive sort of solution, but then the daunting task of editing/formatting and uploading all the stories and notifying all the authors sort of weight me down.
I think this time I'll start by posting links to stories that are still alive on the web and figure out what to do about stories that are no longer online etc. |
| My Name has nothing to do with publishing. | Crazed Rant | QuarkMaster | 2009-02-23 01:14 |
| | On various sites, and google searching you will see links to posts of people that claim to be "Quark Masters"
As I search for links to my site to redirect/fix to the new location, I see a lot of listings for these people and their discussions of Quark Express.
Oooh...they managed to master an Ancient Desktop Publishing Application...
No that's not me, yes I played with Quark Express in a previous century...but please...it's not Zen.
No, I am called Quark Master because I have mastered "Quarks" which are sub-atomic particles. I have a Ph.D. in experimental particle physics and my disseration was on the production of particles containing "Strange" quarks (There are also Up, Down, Charm, Top and Bottom quarks as well--they combine in groups of 2 or 3 to form particles...they also have different colors...but that's a long story).
Of course, there is no way to make money in that. The only joy is in creating High Energy Death Rays to shoot down your enemies. You know like Tek Jansen does. (I still love those tasty looking Pillsbury aliens he toasted and ate.)
And anyway making Death Rays is a lot of work. And like I said, the money sucks.
Instead I went out and became a Network Systems Architect and started writing electronic trading and portfolio management applications and systems and in fact spent the last year working on a loan trading system so that I could collapse the world financial markets.
Think I did good.
Bwah hah hah hah.
Oh and in my spare time I kidnap people and turn them into freaky sex monsters.
Bwah hah hah hah.
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| Missing Comments/Page Counts | Site News | QuarkMaster | 2009-02-23 00:27 |
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One reason I left my old hosting provider, of 10+ years was that they crunched me down without warning and yada yada yada...I lost data.
I have lost 18 months worth of comments and "site counts"
What this means is that any comments you may have left about images...or stories, in the last 18 months or so...at both QMG and D2H are toast/gone/goodbyed.
Also the page counts for all my pages and images are reset back 18 to 20 months.
So if your comments are missing...it wasn't intentional...it was my stupid former hosting site.
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| | Welcome To My Blog | Site News | QuarkMaster | 2009-02-23 00:23 |
| | So! Welcome to my new blog.
This is both a first post, a welcome message and a test to make sure the system is working.
Yes, I did test it on my development box, but you find out all sorts of fun things when you move it to a live box.
I hope to be posting more exciting info/stuff shortly, but right now I have to get Damned To Hell back alive again.
and I have to triple check this site from old links...plus I need to replicate my old website paths that google shows, and some people's bookmarks might show.
For one thing, the old site is still there, sort of functional, but not being updated. It will be gone in a month.
-QM
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