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Platt Stuff: Bicentennial Comics [Updated!]
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Words, Ideas and Other Goodness. Sunday, March 22, 2015. Every once in a while I like to look forward by looking back. I was seven years old in July 1976, when the entire country colorfully celebrated the American Bicentennial. I remember school art projects, fireworks, parties, parades, all kinds of pins and other mementos, TV specials, and magazine covers. Oh yeah, and comic books. I still have my battered copy of Bicentennial Battles. Bicentennial comics shall come first. It shouldn't be too hard....
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Platt Stuff: December 2013
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Words, Ideas and Other Goodness. Wednesday, December 4, 2013. Earlier today I found myself suddenly (and really inexplicably) nostalgic for the old Doctor Who Magazine. Has inspired a few more memory flashes. I wish that I remembered more. I also used to subscribe to some sort of Doctor Who fan club newsletter. I can't find anything that looks familiar online, so I'm pretty confused as to what that might have been. Oh, time, you're a harsh mistress. Magazines like this didn't last through the 57 moves I ...
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Platt Stuff: January 2014
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Words, Ideas and Other Goodness. Wednesday, January 1, 2014. I had an unstated goal this year: to read 120 books. That might seem like a lot, but I managed to read 115 books in 2012. So I figured I could beat that, right? Well, I did beat the 115 but I didn't quite make it to 120. According to my tally on Goodreads. I read a grand total of 119 books in 2013, and that's still a number I can live with. It's a lot more than I have read in many years past and more than most people get to in a single year.
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Platt Stuff: October 2013
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Words, Ideas and Other Goodness. Saturday, October 12, 2013. Before the Beginning" was actually the beginning. Another short story from my archive has been resurrected. This time around I went all the way back to the beginning and resurrected my very first published short story, "Before the Beginning." This caveman horror/fantasy story first saw print way back in 1994. It hasn't been seen since. But now it's back in an affordable Kindle edition. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). 160; . Platt art for sale.
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Platt Stuff: 2014: My year in books
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Words, Ideas and Other Goodness. Thursday, January 1, 2015. 2014: My year in books. I have a room in my house devoted to books and comic books. Boxes and boxes of the damn things. They've been sitting there for a few months, ever since we moved from Maine to Oregon. Some day soon I'll start to buy some new bookcases, un-box the books and spread them around the house, but for now they'll just have to sit there where the movers dumped them this past August. And the 115 that I read in 2012. I did read some ...
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Platt Stuff: Milestone
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Words, Ideas and Other Goodness. Thursday, April 30, 2015. I love the last day of the month. For most of my clients, that's invoice day. Oh how I love invoice day. Today marks a special occasion: I just sent in my 1,111th freelance invoice. For some odd reason that strikes me as better than invoice # 1000. That one was boring. Too many zeroes. I still have a few more invoices to send today, so this milestone won't stand for long. That's okay. Life is all about transitions and moving forward.
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Platt Stuff: April 2015
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Words, Ideas and Other Goodness. Thursday, April 30, 2015. I love the last day of the month. For most of my clients, that's invoice day. Oh how I love invoice day. Today marks a special occasion: I just sent in my 1,111th freelance invoice. For some odd reason that strikes me as better than invoice # 1000. That one was boring. Too many zeroes. I still have a few more invoices to send today, so this milestone won't stand for long. That's okay. Life is all about transitions and moving forward.
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Platt Stuff: 2014 in Articles
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Words, Ideas and Other Goodness. Thursday, January 1, 2015. New Year's Day is good for three things: sleeping in, looking back and looking ahead. I already slept in. I'll look ahead later today. For now I'm looking back. My favorite article of the year wasn't really an article - it was an essay celebrating 10 years of my Extinction Countdown blog/column. Over at Scientific American. It's one of the most emotional things that I have ever written. Found: A Snake Species No One Believed Existed. The John R&...
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Platt Stuff: Back from the Borderlands
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Words, Ideas and Other Goodness. Tuesday, June 24, 2014. Back from the Borderlands. Well this is exciting. The long-out-of-print anthology BORDERLANDS 5, containing my short story "All Hands," is finally available again, this time in a handy-dandy Kindle edition. It's hard to believe that it's been 11 years since this book first came out, initially in a limited-edition hardcover and then as a mass-market paperback (called "From the Borderlands"). Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Platt art for sale.
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Platt Stuff: May 2015
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Words, Ideas and Other Goodness. Friday, May 1, 2015. Dog walking in Portland. You never know what you're going to encounter. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). John R. Platt is a journalist focusing on environmental issues, cutting-edge technology, entrepreneurship and creativity. 160; . View my complete profile. The John R. Platt Homepage. Extinction Countdown blog at Scientific American. Wildlife articles for TakePart. The Platt Article Library. Eco-friendly articles at Mother Nature Network.
