Nicky has a new Tumblr entry. Mostly, he’s talking about a Poe/raven themed anthology put out by a friend of his. However, he takes a few digs at Stinky Cat. This one really stood out:
I had added additional notes with An Eye In Shadows on AuthorsDen.com as I am dealing with Stinky Cat turning AuthorsDen.com into her litter box. So I think whoever that attitude whoever buys books from lulu.com is going to get herpies — it pisses me off.
My home is not your litter box. I am not swimming in your toilet so please don’t take a shit in my swimming pool.
I LOL’d. Does he mean harpies or herpes? Or, harpies with herpes? The accompanying picture is of a guy in the shallow end of a swimming pool, pointing to what is obviously a Baby Ruth candy bar. You can see the peanuts poking through the chocolate coating in places. Also, the imagery of Nicky swimming around in a toilet bowl is priceless.
The closest thing Nicky has to a swimming pool is Goose Lake. At this time of year, Goose Lake is choked with algae, and goose shit. I don’t know about you, but I’d rather swim in a chlorinated pool with a candy bar than in a weed-filled lake with goose shit. Hell, I’d rather don hunting gear and tick repellent, and dive into thorn-filled raspberry patches and blackberry brambles on a berry picking mission than swim in Goose Lake. In fact, I have the “battle scars” (cuts, scratches, and puncture wounds) all over my arms to prove it. For all practical purposes, Goose Lake is a toilet bowl … for wildlife, anyway.
That’s it for the chuckles leading into the weekend.
I’ve been getting loads of black-cap raspberries, from plants that I dug up and brought back from Canada! They’re on their 4 year mark, and I think may have cross pollinated or whatever they do, with the domestic red raspberry plants from Home Depot! They are huge, juicy, and sweet! My blueberries haven’t done as well this year, but it could’ve been because of the weird winter we had, and also I didn’t prune them back last fall. I’m with you, I’d much rather pick berries than swim in a slimy pond! But you know what? It doesn’t matter. Nicky is adverse to water, and wouldn’t leave Shirley’s basement to go get him some sunshine anyway!
Black raspberry season is in full swing here. We’re easily getting half a gallon every morning, with almost that much extra when we add in the lunchtime and evening harvests. When the fuzzy, sticky, red raspberry pods open, and we begin harvesting those, we’ll get 2-3 times as many as we do of the black ones. Some of the ones we haul out of the woods might be technically from our neighbor’s property, but they never go out there to pick them, anyway. The blackberries are still a few weeks off; those have the thorniest canes of all. Our blueberries will be ready soon, but those are off by themselves, nowhere near the brambles.
I SO am hungry for fresh blackberries. I lucked out and got some of the last strawberries of the season at a pick your own place between clear lake and mason city a couple of days ago, though! 😀
We had a lot of strawberries this year too. I need to pull up some of the runners and move the outliers back with their buddies and get them all to stay put! They’re trying to take over my veggie garden! There’s blackberries in the woods next to my house, so I’m eagerly waiting on those. 🙂
Y’all are killing me with your green thumbs. All my herbs came back but I neglected to spray my mint with soap water and bugs defoliated all of my mint within just a few days. Aphids or whiteflies not sure….I’ve given up on roses…same thing…
Now the odd surprise which makes up for it – is I have a lush hydrangea I planted last year…I was lazy and left half a bag open manure next to it and never retrieved it (I planted it in a forest-like part of the yard and had a snake scare…anyway out of 6 plants this one is HUGE with 3 large dark blue blooms already- just gorgeous…3-4 times bigger than the others…all b/c of the manure…i guess.
For the most part, raspberries and blackberries thrive on neglect. The most care we take of them is cutting out the dead canes, and disentangling them from honeysuckle and grapevine as needed. The blueberries and black currants are pretty care-free, too.
Had to replace the rosemary, which didn’t make it through the winter like it usually does, but all the other perennial herbs came back. Roses, azaleas, barberries, butterfly bushes, mock oranges, etc., require pruning to keep them to the size/shape I want, but the real work is in the kitchen (veggie) garden.
My poor camellia had a really rough winter. Most of the buds got hit with a late frost, and half the plant died. After hard pruning, it’s making a comeback, but it’s rather misshapen now. This far north, it really should be wrapped in burlap for winter, but I can’t be bothered.
Oh oh I’m not sure if I saw my rosemary…better check. Neglect I am good at. Hope your camellia recovers. I only have 1 but love it.
Just got a fresh love note in my emails from Nickydarling
Why are you trying to get people think I died in San Fran — I am not a faggot; you must hate Republicans with a passion. Look at that check and clearly you were pissed off enough to hold my public page hostage. I will not let you do this and if you’re going to libel me — I can talk to Paul Finch not to publish you.
it would almost be fun to see him TRY to keep anyone from publishing anyone but himself.
Paul’s a professional, and values his good name. Nicky’s attempts to use him like this have completely pissed him off.
Lake Fossil Press just met a dismal end in San Fran.
Saw this gem by way of Ramsey Campbell’s FB:
http://www.amazon.com/Lake-Fossil-Press/e/B004LZIXP4
My daughter says we now have the name for Fossil Lake IV
OMG if that’s a Nicky typo I see it’s the BEST one ever!
LOL. Yep, I Tweeted it. But Nicky has me blocked, so he won’t find out his truly funny error from me.
Typo? Seems more like a classic Freudian slip to me!
Screengrabbed and tweeted. The best part is that he created that page all by himself, and can’t legitimately blame anyone else for tinkering with it.
There’s got to be a comic in there somewhere.
At least, he did spell his name correctly this time.
That Amazon Lake Fossil Press page has been like that since 8 May and probably was before. That’s Nicky Pacione: write once in the heat of passion, go back and add, but check spelling and grammer? Never.
…grammar…
This made me giggle far too long.
Why is the Village People’s “In the Navy” going through my head?
Well he is known to be playful around sailors.
Nicky love the seamen.
Still there…but no erotic content he warns.
I tried slogging through Nicky’s latest word toilet but eventually gave up. I did manage to get through the part where he “promotes” the anthology, but says the typesetting is off and that the editor needs to send him the original file so he can fix it.
Nicky shits on everyone, even if he claims to like somebody. He can’t help himself.