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     Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.163.170.232 |
Any feedback on the two images I've just put at the top of my blog, please? http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/cone_zero_under_way.htm | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.74.96.200 |
One's a tree, the other's a clown, Des. Hope that's some help. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.163.170.232 |
I'm the clown, perhaps. And the tree is pissing on a dog. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.163.170.232 |
If I could go back in time, I wouldn't have started this thread. Perhaps some kind soul could put it out of its misery. | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.74.96.200 |
Sorry, Des. I was only teasing. It looks great. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.163.170.232 |
Happy Hell, Happy Hell, Happy Happy Hell: The negatives are positive and so is Darnell. Thanks, Mark. des | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.163.170.232 |
CONE ZERO AUTHOR IDENTIFICATION COMPETITION A prize of £50 (GBP) by PayPal from Nemonymous to the reader who guesses or assesses (by whatever means) the most correct authors of the stories in the CONE ZERO book.. The authors themselves are not eligible to enter. Deadline: March 4th 2009 (when authors are due to be revealed). If there is a tie, the prize will be shared. The Editor’s decision is final. Please write to bfitzworth@yahoo.co.uk with your choices. If you do not receive an acknowledgement of your entry within a week, please try again. You can enter the competition up to three times, but each entry will be treated separately. The story titles: "The Fathomless World" "The Point of Oswald Masters" "Cone Zero" (page 23) "Cone Zero" (page 33) "Cone Zero, Sphere Zero" "An Oddly Quiet Street" "Always More Than You Know" "Cone Zero" (page 129) "Going Back For What Got Left Behind" "Cone Zero" (page 147) "The Cone Zero Ultimatum" "Angel Zero" "How To Kill An Hour" "To Let" The authors in a random order: Neil James Hudson Colleen Anderson Jeff Holland John Grant A.J. Kirby Eric Schaller Kek-W S.D. Tullis Stephen Bacon Sean Parker Dominy Clements Bob Lock Grant Wamack David M Fitzpatrick | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.50.191.46 |
None of those names are funny! What's going on? | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.163.170.232 |
An independent vision of the Weirdmonger Wheel: http://www.ligotti.net/album.php?albumid=34&pictureid=259 | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.50.191.46 |
are those your webs? did you spin them? | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.163.170.232 |
No, they were done by Slurp Spider. | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.50.191.46 |
But Slurp Spider has been onn sabbatical in Venezuela for the last decade, away from the implements that could manifest such a web. You've failed me, you've failed yourself...but most of all you've failed Slurp Spider. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.163.170.232 |
Slurp Spider sounds to me like a character out of 'The Cone Zero Ultimatum' in the CZ anthology. He's certainly not caracas. | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.50.191.46 |
Is that when a cone loses his memory and turns into a tube and has to stay one step ahead of the government secret services who he used to kill for? | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.163.170.232 |
That sounds lke 'Cone Zero, Sphere Zero' in he CZ anthology. They're going to make a film of it starring Bogata. | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.236.131 |
I think you'll find that Humphrey Bogata is dead. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.163.170.232 |
Sorry, I misspelt the name, I meant Sir Hubert Bogotá C.B.E. | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.236.131 |
Well that's ok then. (albie shakes his fist and slips back into a hole in his own back.) (There's a knock at the door...) | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135 |
How are the chavs, sir? | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.50.191.46 |
It's all bucket fannies and who they punched. So far I'm safe. Not having or being either. | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.50.191.46 |
God they have the minds of kids. It's frightening! Some of them are twenty and they just sit about making stupid noises and laughing. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135 |
[snigger] [burp] [poo poo] | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135 |
Just goes to show that people need forcing to grow up. So much for Rousseau. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.163.170.232 |
I like his paintings. | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.50.191.46 |
They talk like Chalky. Jim Davison's black character. And they're white. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135 |
Bet they're funnier. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.163.170.232 |
That was a Henri Rousseau / Jean-Jacques Rousseau joke, btw. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135 |
...Jim Davison? | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.163.170.232 |
Your reference to Rousseau and my rejoinder "I like his paintings". | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135 |
I know. I meant was your joke one of Jim's? This is like a couple of old men in a day care centre.  | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.163.170.232 |
I know which one is yours. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.168.57.173 |
They talk like Chalky. Jim Davison's black character. And they're white. That's what someone on the radio referred to as talking "Ja-fake-an". | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.98.9.4 |
I've also heard them called Whiggers. Slightly less politically correct. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.163.170.232 |
I like Whigfield's pop record. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.110.213.218 |
And a reputation for sound taste and judgement built up over decades is thrown away in one tragic moment... | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 217.43.29.192 |
I only think that on Saturday nights. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.156.32.207 |
Very pleased to learn yesterday that ZENCORE! (Scriptus Innominatus) - aka Nemonymous Seven - has been nominated for a British Fantasy Award (Best Anthology in 2007). Thanks to those who have bought it, voted for it, appeared in it and helped me produce it. I notice that the BFS have used a misprinted word for the Publisher name of this book - which in reality should be MEGAZANTHUS PRESS - with their own much better version of MEGANTHUS !!! I shall now adopt the new name. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.156.32.207 |
First full review of Cone Zero: http://www.magicalrealism.co.uk/view.php?story=89 Ends by saying: "Well, I'm usually wary of saying things like this, but I expect to see Cone Zero on the lists of this year's best anthologies. It will richly deserve any such place." | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.50.191.46 |
I'd like to see it pass through Tom Paulin now.  | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.156.32.207 |
Hey, Albie, Cone Zero is to do with the international crisis, the credit crunch, the olympic sport of bull running, life and death... des | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 77.86.104.231 |
I don't believe any of those things really exist. You never see them in the same room at the same time. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.156.32.207 |
WEll, that may be, Albie. But here are many Cones in Art & Literature: http://www.ligotti.net/showthread.php?t=1905 Any new ones put on this RC thread may be added to that one by me. | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 77.86.104.231 |
Wasn't there a cone in a story in COLD PRINT? | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.156.32.207 |
Yes, from: http://vaultofevil.proboards75.com/index.cgi?board=scaredstiff&action=display&th read=962 "The Insects of Shaggai After a drunken boast, a man finds he has no choice but to go into the woods to find a supposedly powerful cone which had previously sent the last person to see it raving mad. He finds it, and one of its occupants invades his brain, and his is given a view of the creatures history, on a variety of far-off planets." | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.160.23.143 |
That's the most conical drinking story I've ever heard. | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 77.86.104.231 |
That's not the one with the pooing alien is it? | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.160.23.143 |
No, that's 'The Mine on Yuggoth' (he's welcome to it). | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.156.32.207 |
Deep in my dream the great bird whispered queerly Of the black cone amid the polar waste; -- HPL, Fungi From Yuggoth | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.98.9.4 |
Fungi from Yuggoth - is that a steaming betentacled monster who lights up a party? | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.156.32.207 |
I've just realised that 'cone' is a mutant form of 'once'. cone clone clown Cone upon a time, there was a story that started... | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.156.32.207 |
A very detailed review of CONE ZERO in THE FIX: http://thefix-online.com/reviews/cone-zero-nemonymous-8/ "'cone zero' ... the transition from reality to something else—fantasy, dreams, maybe madness." | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.50.191.46 |
Signed, Dr Locrian. Impressive. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.156.32.207 |
Thanks, Albie. *Both* reviews of CONE ZERO so far have been impressive, if I say so myself. Yours, Mr Can. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.156.32.207 |
Another quote from the latest CZ review: "You can see it coming, of course. It’s like watching a disaster from a distance and being powerless to stop it." | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.156.32.207 |
Relevant to that last quote - just in - Hurricones: http://www.ligotti.net/showpost.php?p=12299&postcount=49 My condolences to anyone affected by Hurricanes/ des | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.156.32.207 |
A Black Hole needs an 'exit cone'. Hence CONE ZERO. Tomorrow we find out... | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.5.6.111 |
That last story reviewed sounded pretty good, Des... it had me going... portends good things, I hope.... | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.156.32.207 |
Thanks, Craig. Back to the 'black hole' ... hence the leminscate on the cover of Nemonymous (200)8 (Cone Zero) | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.156.32.207 |
Hence, too: The Fix Review says: You can see it coming, of course. It’s like watching a disaster from a distance and being powerless to stop it. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.156.32.207 |
Oops - leminscate shold be LEMNISCATE ! | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.156.32.207 |
Lemniscate is the infinity sign - which replaces the 8 on Nemo 8 (on the cover). Tomorrow, according to the news, we are all going to die from a black hole. Cone Zero is another name for a black hole. And the recent Fix Review, if you read it, predicted this parallel set of events. Not a good way to advertsie CONE ZERO, I agree. If I'm right, nobody buys CONE ZERO, because we are all dead. If I'm wrong, egg on my face. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.228.133 |
Oops - leminscate shold be LEMNISCATE!  | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.156.32.207 |
STOP PRESS: A Black Hole needs an 'exit cone'. Hence CONE ZERO. Hence the lemniscate on the cover of Nemonymous (200)8. The Fix Review of 'Cone Zero' says: "You can see it coming, of course. It's like watching a disaster from a distance and being powerless to stop it." But Cone Zero as safety valve is currently saving the world! | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.156.32.207 |
The Power of Imagination as prophylactic. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.156.32.207 |
Ongoing page for Cern Project / Cone Zero: http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/cone_zero__cern_project.htm | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.156.32.207 |
I'm thinking of calling the next Nemonymous Anthology (nine) by the name of CERN ZOO, to follw 'Zencore' and 'Cone Zero'.. http://teachers.web.cern.ch/teachers/archiv/HST2002/feynman/particlezoo.html | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.37.199.45 |
Don't do it, Des. Call the book EROS ZONE. That's only one letter away from CONE ZERO. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.37.199.45 |
The follow-up, of course, would have to be called SORE ZONE. With the contributors to EROS ZONE named and shamed.  | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.156.32.207 |
EROS ZONE would be a good title if I decide to have a book with opportunistic sex in it. ;-) | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.37.199.45 |
Might be more fun to have opportunistic sex with a book in it. Or just to have opportunistic sex with a book. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.156.32.207 |
Depends who wrote the book. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.156.32.207 |
EROS ZONE would be a good title =========== Charles Black has suggested: NECRO ZONE for Nemo 9 | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.235.156 |
"The covers of this book are too far apart." — Ambrose Bierce | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.156.32.207 |
Cern Zoo Cerne Abbas giant: http://www.mysteriousbrit...orsites/cerne_abbass.html Effect of Zencore? | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.156.32.207 |
Sorry: http://www.mysteriousbritain.co.uk/majorsites/cerne_abbass.html | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.156.32.207 |
SFRevu of CONE ZERO: http://www.sfrevu.com/php/Review-id.php?id=8176 "Of the fourteen stories, I found most of them to be of excellent caliber." PS: CERN ZOO Submission guidelines (1p per word): http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/cerne_zoo__guidelines.htm | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.157.114.136 |
God, but subbing is scary. Exhilarating one moment then panic-making the next. I'd forgotten the 'It's fine - let it go!' feelings sharply by 'Shit! There's a mistake!' ones the minute it's gone. I was wanting to write like crazy the moment it went, too, then wanting to give up ten minutes later. You folk - why didn't you remind me of these things! | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 87.102.14.96 |
I can't get past writing a man into a room and have things happen to him. Seems as daunting as me being in a room. | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 87.102.14.96 |
I miss the M.R.James darkness. Everything scary has been written about. Ligotti was the final nail. Fear of reality itself. What is beyond that? Do we just go back to being afraid of hairy men? | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.156.32.207 |
The Fear is in Cone Zero ... Cern Zoo. The solution in the rearing of Zencore:  | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 87.102.14.96 |
Is that the knob of one of those giants from IN THE HILLS, THE CITIES. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.23.233.246 |
No - it's Dez'z. I bet that column is great to climb. | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 87.102.14.96 |
Why isn't it covered in bird shit? Imagine that. A statue, in a park...the only one that the birds avoid. Sounds familiar. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.231.13 |
Everything scary has been written about. Ligotti was the final nail. Fear of reality itself. What is beyond that? Actual fear - literary non-fabricated fear-inducement. Personalized horror books. You bring it home, open it up, and the first sentence goes, "Albie brought the book home, opened it up, and began reading, just before the pain began...." And then, well.... Of course, this takes an awful lot of commitment on the author's part; but then that's what separates the good from the great. | ||
| Adriana (Adriana) Username: Adriana Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.230.239.233 |
"I don't believe any of those things really exist. You never see them in the same room at the same time." Oh, they do. But never in the daylight... | ||
| Adriana (Adriana) Username: Adriana Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.230.239.233 |
I very much like your blue tree, Des. It's so beautiful and elegant in its frozen form. And it being trapped within glass in that posture is something that I find both calming and frightening... On the one hand, it's perfect. Still. Icy. On the other hand I can't shake the feeling that if I turned it around, the tree (or something within it) might be seen screaming on the other side... Also, I particularly like the little blue line near the bottom on the left. Like a little cloud - suggesting that the tree is either on a hill top, or very very tall. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.156.32.207 |
The above photo was taken by me in Vigeland Park, Oslo last week by a sculptor named Vigeland who died in 1943 and there are about 200 of his sculptures in the park: and here is another towering example:  | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.156.32.207 |
Adriana, Thanks. I presume you mean this image on my website:  | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 77.86.111.96 |
A reptilian bug eating the head of a woman? | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.156.32.207 |
Yes, Albie. As far as I could se from the ground. Adriana, I presume you mean this version of the Blue Tree;  | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.156.32.207 |
Yes, Albie. As far as I could see from the ground. Adriana, I presume you mean this version of the Blue Tree;  | ||
| Adriana (Adriana) Username: Adriana Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.230.239.233 |
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=7KtH7EMrqlk&feature=related This is a great series I came across recently - coincidentally "Particle ZOO" comes up in this section... (THe whole program is worth watching though.) | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 81.155.19.145 |
Another CONE ZERO review at the bottom of the page below. (Despite not liking SF, the reviewer still seems to love a lot of the stories!) http://www.horrorworld.org/reviews.htm | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.157.25.128 |
For any interested, I've spent the last week or two repairing, improving and expanding THE WEIRDMONGER WHEEL: http://weirdmonger.mindsay.com/reinvented_wheel.mws Beware any gaps in the safety-net. No H&S Provisions exist. Also, others have been kindly 'harvesting' (?) themed quotations etc from my lifetime work: http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/themed_quotations_made_from_dfl.htm http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/the_rachel_mildeyes_quotes.htm | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.157.25.128 |
Another review linked from here: http://www.fright.com/edge/index.html "A wildly unexpected, utterly unpredicatable anthology of horror, sci fi and who-knows-what!" | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.157.25.128 |
My novels and novellas all available as in an art gallery for reading-approval or publication: http://www.wordonymous.esmartdesign.com/ | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.159.145.243 |
Incredible finding today: http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/2012/01/18/the-zencore-statue/ | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 92.232.199.129 |
That's a really spooky coincidence, Des. Oh, and happy birthday to you too! |