The New Toy

You know, I really have a lot to do tonight.
Seriously, I shouldn't even be thinking about blogging.
What I should be doing is wrapping up a few stories, a few book reviews, a couple of print interviews, and prepping for my next video interview. (Which happens to be with Mississippi novelist, Ace Atkins, who is, by the way, appearing at the Poisoned Pen in Scottsdale, AZ on Tuesday the 20th to promote his latest novel, Infamous. So make sure to stop on by the store at 7 PM.) But, no, I'm down in the living room, a cup of coffee close at hand and I'm writing about the TOY.

What is the TOY, you ask?

Well, like 92 million other Americans (BTW, I'm thinking Steve Jobs and the good folks at Apple are exaggerating those numbers just a tad bit?) I got suckered into buying an iPad. And not just one, but two, because there was no way in hell I was going to share with the wife

But I'll be honest with you, gang, I don't really feel like I was suckered into anything, I just really, really wanted one. And believe me when I tell you this, me and the wife, neither one of us is real big into keeping up with the Jones. We're not the type of family who has to have the newest gadget and the nicest cars on the block so that we can brag to the smucks next door that we're up to our eyes in debt, but damn we look good and have really nice stuff that we don't actually own. But we have been wanting to upgrade to new laptops for awhile, so we went for it.

I'm five days into iPad ownership and I've written a couple of stories on it, including my piece for Patti Abbott's newest Flash Fiction Challenge, details of which can be found right HERE, and my newest story at the always excellent A Twist of Noir. Plus, the resolution on the thing is so damn sharp and the print's so clear, I now fully realize why Amazon was so damn scared of this thing. Because guess what, the TOY has pretty much made the actual Kindle reader obsolete. (You can download the Kindle App for free and all the books you've purchased will be in your library, so you don't really need to worry that you wasted money.)

So, anyway, enough said about that, I just needed to get that out of my system.

But before I go I do want to do a little pimping.

If you're one of my two or three readers, you'll know I'm a pretty big fan of Anthony Schiavino. In case you don't know who Anthony is, he runs the website Pulptone and publishes his comic book Sergeant Zero under the Pulptone banner. Well a few days ago, Anthony released an alternate cover of issue #1 of Sergeant Zero. You can find the link to pick up a copy of the comic right HERE at the Pulptone mini-site and make sure to take a look at this cool trailer bellow.

Alrighty then, time to hit the sack.