My tweets

• Wed, 12:19: RT @MidtownGlobal: Celebrate the Year of the Goat @MidtownGlobal, Friday, February 13! #chinesedance #ChineseNewYear http://t.co/T6nD5BffkY
• Wed, 12:26: RT @shanselman: Every business person's nightmare: We'll be starting the WebEx now...
• Wed, 12:29: RT @LOLGOP: Watching Jeb Bush complain about us gaining 200K+ jobs a month when W. left us losing 900K a month, the only response is, "You'…
• Wed, 13:39: RT @andrewducker: I had never heard of the norwegian butter crisis http://t.co/ObrYs8X3h0
• Wed, 13:42: RT @LiveScience: HIV, Syphilis Tests? There's an App for That http://t.co/o98baJCwlI
• Wed, 14:50: RT @Margoandhow: Fox News eyes latest danger to America’s culture: The movie Frozen, w its strong female characters sending a bad message a…
• Wed, 14:57: RT @Margoandhow: <crazy> DickMorris: Scott Walker could win bec he appeals 2 establishment Rs & TPartiers. Really? Could someone send me Va…
• Wed, 15:06: RT @codemastermm: It's official: The FCC will motion to have The Internet filed under Title II as a utility. http://t.co/lHfSu4ctGh
• Wed, 16:21: RT @PostReid: Scott Walker's recall bid left him with ~300k donors, per @mateagold. More than almost anyone else in 2016 field - http://t.c…
• Thu, 06:36: RT @tomshardware: Sony Spends $15 Million To Fix Cyber Security - http://t.co/WHSdeDPNhz

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The Pornographer (And once or twice SF Writer...)

My Dad, the Pornographer
By CHRIS OFFUTT
FEB. 5, 2015

My father, Andrew Jefferson Offutt V, grew up in a log cabin in Taylorsville, Ky. The house had 12-inch-thick walls with gun ports to defend against attackers: first Indians, then soldiers during the Civil War. At 12, Dad wrote a novel of the Old West. He taught himself to type with the Columbus method — find it and land on it — using one finger on his left hand and two fingers on his right. Dad typed swiftly and with great passion. In this fashion, he eventually wrote and published more than 400 books. Two were science fiction and 24 were fantasy, written under his own name; the rest were pornography, using 17 pseudonyms. Moar

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