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4.0 out of 5 stars Fast paced, Exciting Jan 28 2013

By stephani e clements

Format:Kindle Edition

“Moss Cole threw me in the front seat, buckled me in and didn’t take his foot off the gas for over 200 pages. Sardonic wit, clever dialogue and a host of dynamic characters made me a fan. There was so much action, i will read it again as i may just have missed something! My view of the world would have craved a different ending but Howerton has created a guaranteed customer for a sequel.”

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You can now purchase my #oddboiled tale of music, mayhem and long legs – HOT SINATRA –  on the KOBO store. http://bit.ly/10PB0ZZ

Also, HOT SINATRA print files are finished and approved and on their way to the dead tree factory. Yep. Paperback Sinatra. Coming your way in 2 weeks.

In other news, actual writing is about to begin on my entry in the EMPIRES OF STEAM & RUST series, tentatively titled The Key To Rust & Salvation. Steampunky alternate history and future sci-fi apocalyptic craziness all wrapped into one tasty package. Check out more on ES&R in this post I did back in December, or on the EMPIRES OF STEAM & RUST page. There are currently four great stories in the series and plenty more to come.

Finally, I was chatting with His Revered Dudeness, The Dudely Lama the other day, and it looks like LEBOWSKI 101 is well under way and should appear to rule your existence and rock the foundations of the academic world viddy viddy soon.

Today is the day, 25th of January, that we honor the original Great Scot, the wordsmithy, The Bard, the voice of the people, the badass of Ayrshire, the man who gave us Auld Lang Syne and A Red, Red Rose. Poet, songwriter, political commentator and liberal shit-disturber, Robert Burns. Robbie Burns Day is a day to unleash the Ploughman Poet within, set down and celebrate the loveliness of words, the wit and the wisdom, the power of language, the redemptive qualities of fine Scots Whiskey, and the horrific cuisine of the Highlands.

Address To A Haggis

Robert Burns (1786)

Fair fa’ your honest, sonsie face,
Great chieftain o’ the pudding-race!
Aboon them a’ yet tak your place,
Painch, tripe, or thairm:
Weel are ye wordy o’a grace
As lang’s my arm.

The groaning trencher there ye fill,
Your hurdies like a distant hill,
Your pin was help to mend a mill
In time o’need,
While thro’ your pores the dews distil
Like amber bead.

His knife see rustic Labour dight,
An’ cut you up wi’ ready sleight,
Trenching your gushing entrails bright,
Like ony ditch;
And then, O what a glorious sight,
Warm-reekin’, rich!

Then, horn for horn, they stretch an’ strive:
Deil tak the hindmost! on they drive,
Till a’ their weel-swall’d kytes belyve
Are bent like drums;
Then auld Guidman, maist like to rive,
Bethankit! hums.

Is there that owre his French ragout
Or olio that wad staw a sow,
Or fricassee wad make her spew
Wi’ perfect sconner,
Looks down wi’ sneering, scornfu’ view
On sic a dinner?

Poor devil! see him owre his trash,
As feckles as wither’d rash,
His spindle shank, a guid whip-lash;
His nieve a nit;
Thro’ blody flood or field to dash,
O how unfit!

But mark the Rustic, haggis-fed,
The trembling earth resounds his tread.
Clap in his walie nieve a blade,
He’ll mak it whissle;
An’ legs an’ arms, an’ hands will sned,
Like taps o’ trissle.

Ye Pow’rs, wha mak mankind your care,
And dish them out their bill o’ fare,
Auld Scotland wants nae skinking ware
That jaups in luggies;
But, if ye wish her gratefu’ prayer
Gie her a haggis!

Go to http://www.robertburns.org/ to learn more about this magnificent bastard on this, the most blessed of days.