Category: Personal

Greetings all.  I’m sure many of my faithful readers here have noticed that this Wordslinger hasn’t slung many words of late.  There is a reason for that: during the last week of October of last year, after enduring the worst abdominal cramps I’ve ever had – and spending about 30 hours mistakenly convinced that I had food poisoning – I finally called 911.  I was taken by ambulance to the hospital where I was diagnosed with a ruptured colon.  Dive...

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Greetings, o brave interweb perusers.  Tis I, your faithful slinger o'words, with another brief update on what's been happening.  As this site nears its fourth anniversary, the number of daily/monthly visitors who come here has steadily increased.  As of this date, TheWordslinger gets about 300 visitors a day – or 9,000 a month, which isn't too shabby for The Little Website That Could. I have started doing some serious promotion on my novel BROODING.  In September I pr...

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Greetings and salutations o brave interweb perusers. While I would like to thank all of the people who have purchased and read my recently published novel BROODING – The Heartland Chronicles Book One, I would also like to ask those who have read and enjoyed it, if perhaps you wouldn’t mind taking a few minutes to leave your thoughts (and stars) on BROODING’s Amazon.com page. It doesn’t have to be a long review (though those are always welcome, too – as long as the...

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Einstein was right when he posited that time is relative … ‘cause damn if this year didn’t fly by.  I know that everybody says that at year’s end but, as we've all experienced bad years that were slower than erosion, something must be screwing with the space/time continuum.  Anyhoo … As it has been damn near 3 years since my humble website, TheWordslinger, went live on December 28th, 2007, I thought I would throw you an update and a year end recap. In ...

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Greetings all.  Here's what's happening.  The biggest news on TheWordslinger is that BROODING – The Heartland Chronicles Book One, by yours truly, was published in June 2010.  You can buy copies at the book’s Official website, or Amazon.com, or … My next book signing will be on Thursday August 26th, 2010, 6:30 pm at: Clear Creek Books1200 Washington AveGolden, Colorado 80401303-278-4593 If you are in the area, please stop in, say hello, and pick up a signed c...

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Well, folks, you've heard me talking about it for years, but BROODING - The Heartland Chronicles Book One by yours truly has finally been published and is available for immediate sale.For those wondering what this book is about, here is the jacket copy:Nicholas Goodfellow is not the Devil, but he knows him.When the high-ranking, aristocratic demon first spies his new mission - a five-year-old orphan named Tyler Davis - he is insulted. But when he sees that his former friend General Valiant, one...

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I don't obsess over my high school days - since it's been damn near 30 years since I left that part of my life behind, my memories are pretty dim anyway. (For the record, it's only been 28 years; let's not count our decades before they are hatched.) As a talented-but-troubled boy, I, like many people during this time, had trouble finding a place where I fit. It wasn't with the jocks (I was too scrawny), it wasn't with the freaks (I had yet to discover herbal medicinals), and it wasn't with th...

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I'll be the first to admit I haven't put enough personal posts on TheWordslinger. You'd think I would know better since of all the articles I write on here - be they pop culture related, Churchianity (there will be more, I promise), or what's going on in my real life - the ones that get the most comments are those last two. And ... since I had an AMAZING day yesterday (February 1st, 2010), I was encouraged by a friend to share it on here. I've never been much good at journaling - perhaps one ...

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Season's Greetings, one and all. This is just a brief update to let you know what's happening. A couple of days ago, this site celebrated its two-year anniversary. Over 100,000 visitors later, TheWordslinger is still going stronger than ever. In year one, there were around 29,000 visits, in year two, around 77,000 -- that's progress.I am still also writing for Examiner.com, though lately that has taken a bit of a backseat as I finish the final revisions on BROODING. Publication of this, my ...

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I've been quite lax in posting new articles of late -- this is just a brief note on the reasons why. I'm in the midst of changing jobs (same boss, new location), moving my residence (same state, new city ... gotta love Colorado), and, mainly, getting BROODING ready for publication. I don't want to spill too many details just yet, but this looooooong-gestating novel will be in print, in stores, and available for online purchase by Spring 2010 -- expect a massive marketing push (including book...

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Hey everybody, here's another personal aside to let you know what's happening (not a helluva lot), offer the same old lame excuses as to why I'm not posting on TheWordlsinger as often as I should (still working hard on my Examiner pages, Celebrity Profiles and Pop Culture News), bemoan the fact that while this site gets hundreds of visitors a day, only 1% ever leave a comment (a sad fact bemoaned by all internet writers), bitch about the fact that despite pouring my heart and soul into my novel,...

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Greetings.Just another brief update to explain why I haven't posted much lately here on The Wordslinger. I've said this before, but ... to the new and the tardy, I now have TWO titles over at Examiner.com. To see the lion's share of what I've been writing, please click on the following links:POP CULTURE NEWS EXAMINERCELEBRITY PROFILE EXAMINERMuch of the content (so far) on my Pop Culture News page is reworked material from popular posts on this site. Celebrity Profile is just what it sounds li...

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Greetings, all. Just a brief update to let you know what's happening.I've been a bit lax of late in posting, but only because ...A few weeks ago I was hired by Examiner.com, an online newspaper owned by media mogul Phillip Anshutz, to write for their Arts & Entertainment department. My official title is Celebrity Profile Examiner -- I write up celebrity bios exclusively for the site so that the other Examiners can link to me instead of Wikipedia or IMDB. You can view my main page by click...

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Happy New Year, all.I've been fighting the post-holiday blues the past couple of days (preceded, of course, by the pre-holiday blues and actual-holiday blues), but I'm forging through them. Hence, no year-end Top Ten lists (which are done to death anyway) -- I didn't even bother with a Happy Anniversary to The Wordslinger post, although this site has been live for a year now.Perhaps there's more I could write regarding this common-but-little-talked-about affliction: the stress and spending and ...

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Just a quick post to wish everyone a safe and happy holiday weekend. I will be away from my computer for a few days -- but check back soon 'cause I will have lots more fun and interesting stuff for you.Here's a Thanksgiving anecdote from George Carlin: Did you ever notice you don't get laid much on Thanksgiving? Maybe it's because all the coats are on the bed.JONATHAN EDWARDS - SHANTYWho says this can't be a Thanksgiving song? ...

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Greeting and salutations.I haven't been as faithful to the updating of this website as I would like, much of it having to do with the fact that --A - After finishing a big writing project, I'm wont to be kind of frazzled.B - The construction work I was doing ended and I'm scrambling for work.C - I am struggling to walk the walk of faith and not just talk the talk.D - I'm somewhat stressed over what is happening with the book -- I fluctuate between extremely excited and ... oh, what's the word? ...

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Greetings all.Just thought I'd put up a brief post to let you know what's happened on this site since I went live 8 months ago.Monthly visitors (new and frequent) increased steadily from January (680) to June (1537). And then, on July 16th -- my birthday, for crying out loud -- Whitney Matheson from USAToday.com wrote an article about one of my posts on her PopCandy blog and linked to this site. The very next day, AintItCoolNews did likewise. Check 'em out. Visitors SPIKED that month and Jul...

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Greetings all.Just thought I'd give you an update on what's happening with the book. (If you're new to this site, I am an author currently trying to get my first novel published.) I just got the manuscript back from my editor and am currently in the process of revisions. Revisions? Ha! I'm trying to whittle this behemoth down into something commercial ... I can be longwinded (duh).Finding time and energy to do so while working construction full-time is not easy. In fact, this final (hopeful...

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Many of you who frequent this site have contacted me and mentioned that my "About Andy" page was sorely lacking in depth and detail. Taking that into account, along with the fact I get the most comments not on pop culture items, but rather passionate rants of a more personal nature, I've decided to be more forthright (to put it mildly). For more info on that, click the "About Andy" link.Thanks for visiting.JUST AN OLD HIPPIE...

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My name is Andy Williamson. Come back to this site if you are interested in film reviews, cool links, passionate rants, pop culture news, massaging your inner-geek (and you know who you are) or just plain interesting stuff. Shoot, go ahead and bookmark me while you're at it. I am a writer currently living in the mountains of Colorado and it is my great pleasure to bring this site to you.Hope you have fun here....

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