It's A Different World

My eleven year old niece created a profile on Woozworld, which I'd never heard of before.

My sister and I monitor the kids' (niece and nephew) online activities pretty closely at this stage. This sort of thing is always harmless fun on the surface, but there are opportunities for bullying and also for creeps pretending to be kids to try and gain the trust of actual kids.

It's certainly a different world now than it was when I was eleven. I'm 48 years old. To eleven year old me, making friends via computer would have sounded like science fiction. At that age, I was into Star Wars pretty big time. I also liked the original Battlestar Galactica and I loved watching Star Trek reruns too. Having my own computer would have seemed as fantastic an idea as many of the stories on those shows to me at eleven.

~DJ Thalia~

Aha Moment!

Image found here.

Dahlings, the light bulb has gone on! I thought it had burnt out, but nay, there is still juice enough to produce an idea or two. I just realized that with this Posterous system, I can publish posts to multiple blogs, including multiple Blogger blogs! So now you can find me in multiple places. Choose one or more to follow the Tempest!

KHEL 666 (mixed use blog with multiple authors)

KHEL 666 on Facebook

Tempest on Facebook

Tempest on Posterous

Torrid Tempest (My personal mish mosh)

UNDEAD in the Netherworld (Primarily a Creative blog with multiple authors)

UNDEAD on Facebook

I also have Twitter account, a Tumblr Log, and a Typepad blog, but to be honest, I don't check those very often. It's a bit too much to keep up with.

Alternative, Indie, and Go Folk Yourself

Hello, KHEL 666 Krew! I thought I'd play a little New Folk, alternative, you know, that kind of thing. I hope you enjoy! Follow our Blog or our Facebook page, if you care to.

Smooches,

Tempest

How...Posterous!

So many things have happened in the world of my Writing Sisters since I've been gone! We lost the ability to use the Ping service for our exciting KHEL 666 Radio Station Blog. It seemed like KHEL 666 might be no more except on Facebook, and that would have sucked. But then my brilliant Writing Sis, H.P. Liebekraft, saved the day by finding this service. Helena rocks so much--and she likes jazz too!

I know I'm a little late to the party, Helena, but I want to say thank you too. This looks like it will be a fun way to blog. Blogger is actually kind of a pain in the ass if it isn't being used for a specialized blog. At least I think so!

Speaking of Blogger, we've all been pitching in to help our Writing Sis Cie Cheesemeister work on a really cool epic full of madcap fanfic fun. I so wish I could give you the URL, but Cie has been a little vulnerable lately, and we want her to feel free to express herself. I'm just thrilled to be part of it! She loves each of her characters as if they were a real friend. I know some of you might see this and think "what a loser," but when you've had a hard life, sometimes it's kind of hard to relate to the real world. So don't judge.

 

 

Thank You

Dearest writing sisters, I'm glad I was able to discover a solution that worked so well when Ping let us down. Thank you so much for all your kind words! I really did just get lucky--I'm sure one of you would have discovered Posterous if I hadn't!

Love you all,

Helena

Crawling Out of the Woodwork

After some bad experiences on Facebook and some major drama with so called "friends," I had decided that I really didn't want to engage in social networking except for occasionally updating my Facebook page and occasionally contributing to the Animal Anarchy page.. So I didn't do anything for a long time. But now I've flushed all the fake friends out of my life, and I'm ready to get real. Besides, my Writing Sisters have been hassling me to get on Posterous and become part of the KHEL 666 team. (KHEL 666 can be found on Blogger or Facebook.) So, here I am!

Oh yeah, one of these days I actually will get that book published too. The target is now mid-July.

Moms and Daughters

Rt @weknowcomedy Mom: Let me see your facebook. Me: *Throws computer out window* what facebook?

The sad thing is when this would still happen at age 45, like it would for me!

I Have Joined the Ranks of Crotchety Middle-Aged Female Writers Followed by Camgirls

It's happened to several of my writing sisters, but I had thus far been immune. No more. I'm being followed by a camgirl. This one uses the tagline "hit me up if you think you've got a chance--but I doubt it!"

Sister, I don't want to hit you up! You're completely not my type. Even if I did swing in the feminine direction, you wouldn't be my type. I'd probably go after something similar in a woman that I would in a man. I like the intellectual type.

This is my type.

Or this:

Or this:

I'm as baffled as my sisters are about being followed by this:

Do they even bother to read the profile of the person they're following? Middle-aged straight women are not known to spend money to get teased by camgirls.

(This is actually a picture of the character Zoe LaChance. Check out the Zombie Hunter website to learn more. It's really worth a look.)

Sludge!

Dahling KHEL 666 friends, I am in a sludgulous mood tonight! Perhaps it will help me counteract the melancholy, pining for love mood that I was in all day. No sense in wasting time on pursuing that which can never be, I say.

For a Sludgy good time, follow KHEL 666 on our blog, or on our Facebook page!

Good Ole Mountain Music

Howdy, KHEL 666 folks! My Cuzzin Hildy-Bob is here for a visit, and we're in the mood for some bluegrass! If you are too, follow along at our KHEL 666 blog or on our Facebook page.

You can also follow me on these fine sites:

@seekeralone on Twitter

Spectra on Tumblr

Spectra on Typepad

Turn Facebook Purple Against Animal Abuse

Why?

Hello, and let me briefly explain my reason for creating another blog.

I'm part of a group of friends who manages an online radio blog called KHEL 666. We were using the ping.fm service to send our posts to our Blogger blog and our Facebook page. But Ping ceased to support blogger. 

It sucked, because it seemed that we would have to close down the blog.

But then H.P. Liebekraft found Posterous.

My other writing sisters are crowing about how wonderful it is.

Hopefully I'll enjoy it as much as they do. They seem to think it's the greatest thing since sliced bread and Stephen King.

Quick Change Artist

I was a fairly new member of the KHEL 666 crew, and to social networking itself, really. We were using an application called ping.fm. Then Ping stopped supporting blogger, and the group needed to find something new so we wouldn't have to give up our Blogger home.

H.P. Liebekraft is the genius who found the Posterous application.

So now I have to get used to this. As the man said on the way down after jumping off a tall building, so far so good.

If you're wondering what KHEL 666 is, it's a radio station in the form of a blog. There is also a Facebook page. It is very eclectic and thus is only for people with open minds who like discovering something new or expanding their horizons, not for scene twits of any type.

Thanks for reading! 

I couldn't think of what to put here, so here is a picture of a man playing tennis the way I would.

 

Ladies of Country

Hey KHEL 666 crew! Last night my sis Blooming Psycho treated you to some smooth jazz and dance stylings with mostly female vocalists. Earlier today I posted a song by one of my favorite female country singers, Rosanne Cash. I'd like to continue with the ladies of country tonight! I'm blue today, and there's nothing like some good ole piss and moan music, as my late father called it, to go along with a blue mood.

I haven't lived in the country in years. My family moved away from our little backroad acre and a half farm when I was ten years old, and I've never been able to get back. But I'll always be country at heart. I'm not ashamed to admit, I'm kind of a hick. I'm uncomfortable in splashy settings with people who put on airs. I may like visiting places like New York City or San Francisco, but I could never belong there. I'm too much of a good ole gal.

So for those of you who aren't much for country music, you're S.O.L. tonight.

But if you like a little honky tonk and twang:

Follow along, either on our Blogger blog or our Facebook page.

You can also follow me on these sites:

@seekeralone on Twitter

Spectra Ghostseeker on Tumblr

Spectra Ghostseeker on Typepad

Turnabout is Fair Play

We also have a humor page on Facebook called Short Attention Time Abbreviated News. Come visit!

Smoooooth!

Hello to all you cool KHEL 666 cats and chicks! Tonight I thought I'd share some smooth and mellow jazz and soulful stylings to make your night and mine better! Join us on our KHEL 666 Blog, or our Facebook page.

You can also follow me, Blooming Psycho, on these other fine sites:

@bloomingpsycho on Twitter

Blooming Psycho on Tumblr

Blooming Psycho on Typepad

Thanks, and stay cool!

The Psycho

All the happenin' people are hurrying to their computers to check out what's new on KHEL 666!

Smoooooth!

Hello to all you cool KHEL 666 cats and chicks! Tonight I thought I'd share some smooth and mellow jazz and soulful stylings to make your night and mine better! Join us on our KHEL 666 Blog, or our Facebook page.

You can also follow me, Blooming Psycho, on these other fine sites:

@bloomingpsycho on Twitter

Blooming Psycho on Tumblr

Blooming Psycho on Typepad

Thanks, and stay cool!

The Psycho

All the happenin' people are hurrying to their computers to check out what's new on KHEL 666!

Smoooooth!

Hello to all you cool KHEL 666 cats and chicks! Tonight I thought I'd share some smooth and mellow jazz and soulful stylings to make your night and mine better! Join us on our KHEL 666 Blog, or our Facebook page.

You can also follow me, Blooming Psycho, on these other fine sites:

@bloomingpsycho on Twitter

Blooming Psycho on Tumblr

Blooming Psycho on Typepad

Thanks, and stay cool!

The Psycho

All the happenin' people are hurrying to their computers to check out what's new on KHEL 666!

The Psycho has Moved

Those who know some of my writing sisters may have already heard this story. The KHEL 666 gang has made a mass exodus to Posterous, because ping.fm, which we used for years, no longer supports Blogger. We like our KHEL 666 blog, and weren't about to give it up! It would have been too much of a pain to post our shares to Ping, AND to Facebook, AND to Blogger. We needed a solution.

Fortunately, the brilliant H.P. Liebekraft discovered Posterous! And now, here we are!

I'll no longer be updating the Blooming Psycho's Funhouse blog on Blogger, in case anyone actually read that.

We'll see how this goes, but so far it looks pretty cool!

 

Moving Announcement for my Ghost Seeker Readings Blog

When these people asked their friends to help them move house, they meant it literally!

The image was found here.

This is the announcement that I wrote on my Ghost Seeker Readings blog. Check it out if you like.

http://ghostseekerreadings.blogspot.com/2012/06/time-to-move.html