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I've been off the blogging thing for a bit but I'm back now. I spent the Thanksgiving week in Flordia with the in-laws (that just sounds weird), so it's a whole thing of getting ready to take a week off, taking a week off, and then catching up from the week off. So it's a been a bit hectic.

I've been working on my projects a lot as well. I submitted two humor pieces in the past month, one to McSweeney's and another to Mad Magazine. The McSweeney's piece was rejected, and after looking around the Web for possible sites/media that would be interested in a op-ed piece by a retarded robot dinosaur, I found none. That's so weird, isn't it? (And by the way, The Onion does not accept unsolicited material, so phooey on them). Anyway, I'm going to post it here as a point of reference, and maybe the musings of Grimlock the Dinobot will find an audience somewhere on the magical World Wide Web.

I haven't heard anything from Mad, so I thinking no on that. But I have to say, they have one of the better form letters for submissions I've ever seen.

I'm working on some other things as well. Unfortunately, none of which was on National Novel Writing Month. My plan was to sketch out a plot based very loosely on the events of my own life (primarly the death of my dad) as a way for me to easily write something around a structure. However, I found I kept writing too much about my own life and the structure never really went anywhere, so eventually, I tripped myself up with self-doubt, got ideas for other things, and moved on. I don't really feel that bad about it as I'm working on other creative avenues and putting feelers out there, so it's not like I haven't been unproductive. I'll probably give it another shot next year.

So yeah, the Grimlock piece to come as well as the oddball joke or two I've devised recently.