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meika

I am here for Networking

About Me

See my website .

Married with two children.

Download my book .before Country (PDF).

My Interests

Writing. See my real homepage .

I also comment on other people's blogs .

Music:

Dixie Chicks PJ Harvey Rage Against the Machine Bjork Charles Mingus Boards of Canada Jeff Beck Pink Floyd Portishead Radiohead Red Hot Chili Peppers Smashing Pumpkins The Cranberries The Cure Miles Davis The Doors Massive Attack Lemon Jelly Faith No More Nick Drake R.E.M. Pixies Dead Can Dance Talking Heads Pogues Tracy Chapman Laurie Anderson Bach Philip Glass Prodigy Crash Test Dummies Scissor Sisters

Movies:

Blade Runner The Matrix Brazil The Usual Suspects Raiders of the Lost Ark The Princess Bride Star Wars The Piano 'Dr. Strangelove' Koyaanisqatsi Apocalypse Now Trainspotting Office Space 2001 a Space Odyssey A Clockwork Orange Delicatessen Amelie City of Lost Children Dark City Groundhog Day Stalker Edward Scissorhands The Castle Pink Floyd - the Wall K-Pax Galaxy Quest Mad Max Beetlejuice Bram Stokers Dracula Dark Star Little Big Man Rabbit-Proof Fence Priscilla Queen of the Desert Picnic at Hanging Rock Wings of Desire Prospero's Books Bad Boy Bubby Ladyhawke Solaris (Tarkovsky) Orlando Proof The Dish Serenity Trust Sweetie Beneath Clouds Little Fish Tripe

Television:

The Office Red Dwarf Time Team Aeon Flux Blakes 7 Dr Who Mythbusters

Books:

Dune Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Foundation Childhood's End Slaughterhouse-Five Neuromancer Slaughterhouse Five The Dispossessed Inverted World The Magus Godel, Escher, Bach Guns, Germs and Steel Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Iain M Banks A Wrinkle in Time Heart of Darkness A Scanner Darkly The Left Hand of Darkness William Gibson Gormenghast Vernor Vinge Greg Egan Douglas R. Hofstadter Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch Blood Music Ubik Perdido Street Station VALIS Dictionaries Mervyn Peake Peter Kropotkin Ian Banks Shadow of the Torturer, Vanity Fair J. G. Ballard Stanislaw Lem China Mieville Ken Macleod Martian Time Slip Gene Wolfe Jared Diamond The Fifth Head of Cerberus Olaf Stapledon Thesauruses The Game Players of Titan The Man Who Japed A Door into Ocean Catcher in the Rye (NOT!) The Birth of the People's Republic of Antarctica

My Blog

I want a Mechanical Echidna

At Da Vinci Automata my I Want a Mechanical Echidna is now online.Helps if you read this first--- that want is a weighty bias....
Posted by meika on Fri, 01 Jun 2007 06:53:00 PST

Compressed Memory Syndrome

I just got a piece up on The Memoirist Collective entitled Compressed Memory Syndrome. Go see....
Posted by meika on Mon, 07 May 2007 03:46:00 PST

Give it away now

Today is the offical release day for .before Country. Publication dates used to be important when publishing meant printed and distributing. Now of course with blogs, every day is a publication date.T...
Posted by meika on Wed, 28 Feb 2007 06:41:00 PST

.before Country - small collection of SF - POD Published

Supposedly .before Country (small collection of SF) was to be 'published' on 2007-02-28 but as that is/was a pseudo-event it is no wonder the technology has beaten it. You can download a free pdf copy...
Posted by meika on Fri, 02 Feb 2007 01:42:00 PST

stumbleupon

On stumbleupon.com I use the moniker mostly-mica.Where it's all about likes, and liking likes, and like, liking those who like our likes, who are, apparently likely to like what we like, like.And not ...
Posted by meika on Thu, 11 Jan 2007 06:15:00 PST

FAQ for .before Country

.before Country now has a small FAQ.
Posted by meika on Sat, 06 Jan 2007 04:32:00 PST

Traction

My comments on ebooks and POD self-publishing are generating some heat at a lit agent's assistant's blog. My layout makes some reader's eyes bleed. Blogs might not be a good place for me to hang out, ...
Posted by meika on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 09:22:00 PST

my homepage and recently

My real homepage is here. I write compositional poetry and I am POD publishing a collection of short stories in Feb 07 via lulu.com.Its called .before Country. You can download a pdf review copy of th...
Posted by meika on Sat, 18 Nov 2006 02:48:00 PST

Riotlit

I love riotlit. Its a brillant idea. Much better than memoirist collective.
Posted by meika on Sat, 18 Nov 2006 02:33:00 PST