I was so relieved to get the prior post done that I didn't explain it well.

It's going to be used for a "biography" page on my website. When I start speaking at conventions, they are going to need a bio. Instead of sending a presskit, i can tell them to go to the "bio" page on my website and get whatever sized bio they need. So i need all three lengths.

So I guess I need to know:
Is there a joke that doesn't work for you?
Most of you have known me 7+ years. Is there something i've written or done that merits a mention, that I've forgotten?
Are there just plain better ways to phrase the stuff?


I'm trying to reconcile my more dark serious stuff with the farcical. A recurring plot situation in my stories made me come up with this line, and the only line I can come up with sounds pretentious: "You know what's funny? The monsters got you and you don't even know it."  or  just plain "Geek tragedy."

What lines do you like?

And thank you all for helping. It's really very nice of you.

Everything Tim W. Burke Writes Is Comedy, Especially The Creepy Parts

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Raised by a clan of social workers, Tim spent his childhood near major U.S. prisons.  A Temple University graduate,  he produced and performed in “The Kibbles and Bits of ‘Hellorama’”, which FilmThreat.com called “’Mr. Rogers Neighborhood’ meets ‘Pee Wee’s Playhouse’ on crack.” Today, he produces video for a city government.



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Raised by a nomadic clan of social workers, Tim grew up near some of the most notorious prisons in the U.S. He learned to be a raconteur while roaming with his clan, and had adventures, and earned a black belt in Aikido. After graduating Temple University,  he performed and published humor throughout Philadelphia. His sketch comedy featured the still-living brains of John and Robert Kennedy still running the nation between games of touch football. Tim helped create “The Kibbles and Bits of ‘Hellorama’” which FilmThreat.com called “’Mr. Rogers Neighborhood’ meets ‘Pee Wee’s Playhouse’ on crack.” He read slush for Weird Tales, where he studied editing and writing under Hugo Award-winning editor George Scithers. Today, Tim is a co-owner of Atomic City Comics in Philadelphia. His day job is producing video for a city government in Delaware.


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He grew up in the nation’s heartland, near some of the most notorious prisons in the U.S. He attended General George Patton Junior High School. He co-owns a comic book store. His grandfather invented the thing that keeps elevator doors from crushing your arm.

Born in East St. Louis and raised by a nomadic clan of social workers, Tim W. Burke grew up within a mile of Leavenworth Penitentiary and the prison that housed Martha Stewart. He learned to be a raconteur while roaming with his clan, avoided cattle stampedes and the Boy Scouts, and earned a black belt in Aikido. After graduating Temple University,  he performed and published humor throughout Philadelphia. His sketch comedy featured the still-living brains of John and Robert Kennedy still running the nation between games of touch football. Tim helped create “The Kibbles and Bits of ‘Hellorama’” which FilmThreat.com called “’Mr. Rogers Neighborhood’ meets ‘Pee Wee’s Playhouse’ on crack.” He read slush for Weird Tales, where he studied editing and writing under Hugo Award-winning editor George Scithers. Today, Tim is a co-owner of Atomic City Comics in Philadelphia. His day job is producing video for a city government in Delaware.

His stories range from gaslight horrors to broad spec-fic farces. His protagonists range from a cybernetic tyrant Benjamin Franklin to a nerdy troubleshooting fiend with the head of a lamprey. Doomed high school students, crime survivors turned monsters, corpses kept alive by illusion square off with epic heroes battling post-quest neurosis. Tim has published several stories in publications with names like Weird Tales, Bewildering Stories, The Town Drunk, and A Fly In Amber, and in the more soothingly named The Willows.




The structure is a bit cliche. A radio commercial is running in my head, the one for Dos Equis (sp?) in my head, the one with "The Most Interesting Man In The World."  Bullet point, bullet pint, bullet point, from that to this and this to that. Does this thing make you laugh?

Green Tentacles has responded, thanks to klingonguy, but they have not followed up since sending the "get acquainted" material last week and an e-mail to inquire. I now go to the SFWA directory to find designers.

I went a little off on Amazon. I wanted to buy "100 Tiny Tales of Terror" just to get my short horror gears oiled. Well, it only cost ten cents! So i looked around and found "100 Sneaky Little sleuth Stories" because I'd like to see what makes them work. Only thirty-three cents!

I am now the owner of: 100 Tiny Tales of Terror, 100 Sneaky Little Sleuth Stories, 100 Fiendish Little Frightmares, 100 Hilarious Little Howlers, 100 Creepy Little Creature stories, 100 Wild Little Weird Tales, 100 Twisted Little Tales of Torment, and 100 Ghastly Little Ghost Stories.

So I now own 800 Alliterative Little Aphorisms of Agony.

The Zicklo the Doll project got caught up due to hubris. I thought "Sure, i know how to do these video effects! Why research tutorials on YouTube when I'm such a bright guy!" My idea as to making Zicklo talk is not working. I've set it aside for th e moment.

I wrote a 900 word story based on my experience in High School, with names from the original cast of bullies, thugs and pariahs! I rather like this story. Could even be lit'ry. Noble Fusioner Buck Dorrence had ideas for it and it was praised mightily by caoilinnshouse
I think cruising the 800 Aphorisms helped it along. And as short as the story is, i had no idea how it was going to conclude. i have some characters I'm going to play with today to see if i can get a story the same way.

i'd rather write than hang with friends. this causes me a little wistfulness with 20% chance of bumming out.

Question; have you ever gone regularly to a Friends list and wanted to delete somebody annoying, then remembered, oh yeah, this is somebody *else's* friends list? Would that be presumptuous, to say "Could you get rid of so-and-so? That person's annoying!"