The Second Apocalypse
Miscellaneous Chatter => General Misc. => Topic started by: mrganondorf on July 10, 2014, 11:09:48 pm
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>went to staples
>got em printed on ivory card stock
>too expensive to laminate
>too expensive to have staples cut them
>go to office chopper
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>looks pretty good
>time to get busy
>head to the u's library
>tolkien comes first
>all the tolkien
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>it's a very small library
>who else?
>lol, why not?
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>just one more
>got martin too, unpictured
>no abercombie, no lawrence, no fucking herbert
>my work is done
>2 book stores and 1 library to go
>whatever walmart might be carrying a lotr
>it begins
>WHO ARE THE DUNYAIN?
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Awesome, MrG. Awesome. How did they come out up close? Did they pixelate? If so, let me know and I'll upload a high-res PDF, hopefully taking care of that (if it's an issue).
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>many many more
>pdf for anyone who wants it
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Awesome, MrG. Awesome. How did they come out up close? Did they pixelate? If so, let me know and I'll upload a high-res PDF, hopefully taking care of that (if it's an issue).
They're great! No pixelation. They seem perfect as is--thanks again! Literary terrorism begins!
FRODO LIVES
WHO ARE THE DUNYAIN?
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Wicked cool.
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I'm so impressed right now. I cannot wait to do some literary terrorism tomorrow. I think I might do a spoof "Frodo Lives!" Wiki page tonight.
Great job, MG. Thanks, Som, for empowering us.
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hahahaha that's totally awesome, i'm going to print some out as well. I've managed to get a few folk reading just by recommending him on another site i frequent to do with football (soccer) . Maybe half dozen folk said they would pick it up and 4 have finished the lot. One guy was a bit upset as he was waiting on GRRM as well and now has two books he's desperate to read.
But seriously those bookmarks were so awesome i had a big cheesy grin looking at it all.
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bwahaha yes, love it. Had to have a good laugh and my gf came over to see what I was laughing at. She laughed as well.
Incredible work. Lets hope the internet begins to point to our site here. "Who are the Dunyain?" still doesn't point directly here (*cough* SR help us *cough*). I need to figure out how to make the printer at work use the cardstock... Or stop being a cheap piece of shit and go to staples.
What did that run you, and how many did you get?
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it was $21.55 for 100 sheets, not bad i thought
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Not bad at all. I know the basic price is like .09 per sheet of normal paper, so .21 for fancy card stock doesn't seem unreasonable.
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> hit the local library today
> gave up trying to get right authors
> just started seeding anything with a fantasy cover
> a sample of day's deed
> ran out of bookmarks, have to go back
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> somebody left a very special bookmark in the men's
> it looked lonely
> now it has a friend
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This is so awesome.
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I'm hitting the road soon. There'll be Bakker bookmarks in major US South-Central cities!
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> hit the local library
> bring a copy of The Warrior-Prophet
> remove the epilogue's pages and slip them into feminist literature
> semantic apocalypse achieved
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> made it to St. Louis
> dropped around 200 bookmarks
> i think Patrick Rothfuss was going to make an appearance
> maybe a surprise for him
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> all of the Martin
> all of the Tolkien (minus the Hobbit)
> you too Gaiman
> one entire fantasy/scifi section impregnated
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So glorious.
Might have to split this into a thread where "people" (so for right now just MG) post pictures of where their bookmarks have been.
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> San Antonio's next...
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Brilliant, MG.
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I got my 600 bookmarks on plain white cover stock, cost me about $8.50. I'll be on the road soon and should be able to drop them along the way, hopefully.
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Dropped about 30 at Half Price Books
Simmons, Salvatore, Tolkien
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and Donaldson, GRRM, Erickson, Clarke
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Cool stuff :D Might have to do this myself.
Would be interesting if someone finds one of these and traces it back to this thread and comments!
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Lol - I don't think Sovin and SR ever talked but we were purposefully working towards making that happen, Curethan. That reminds me... I should finish my spoof of "Frodo Lives!" and intro post for "Who are the Dunyain?" thread.
For my part, I hit up some titles by Abercrombie, Martin, Lawrence, Tolkien, Erikson, Guy Kay, Rothfuss, Salavator, among others.
And once again for documentation, I'm distributing closest to Bakker-Mecca (other than London itself) and THERE WEREN'T EVEN COPIES OF BAKKER IN THE STORE! What the fuck, readers/publishers?!
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Off-topic but on Wikia's homepage a big map of Westeros came up and written on it was "Where was Daenerys Targaryen?" Which reminded me of this thread. (Can't seem to find it anymore.) It's an ad for Wikia's maps project (http://maps.wikia.com/wiki/Maps_Wiki). Here is one (http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Maps/147) from the Game of Thrones wiki. It doesn't seem that complicated so perhaps we should make one for the Second Apocalypse series. Or if we're feeling ambitious we could try something like - I know I'm dreaming - those (http://lotrproject.com/map/#zoom=3&lat=-1323.98945&lon=1366.00858&layers=BTTTTTTTTT) two (http://lotrproject.com/map/beleriand/#zoom=3&lat=-677&lon=1632.53921&layers=BTTTTTTTTT).
eta: Sorry, just realized that this is way off-topic, so feel free to move/delete/ban.
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I mistook the thread's title as "Inseminating Bakker", and was about to dispense a few illuminating ideas.
Never mind, carry on
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Off-topic but on Wikia's homepage a big map of Westeros came up and written on it was "Where was Daenerys Targaryen?" Which reminded me of this thread. (Can't seem to find it anymore.) It's an ad for Wikia's maps project (http://maps.wikia.com/wiki/Maps_Wiki). Here is one (http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Maps/147) from the Game of Thrones wiki. It doesn't seem that complicated so perhaps we should make one for the Second Apocalypse series. Or if we're feeling ambitious we could try something like - I know I'm dreaming - those (http://lotrproject.com/map/#zoom=3&lat=-1323.98945&lon=1366.00858&layers=BTTTTTTTTT) two (http://lotrproject.com/map/beleriand/#zoom=3&lat=-677&lon=1632.53921&layers=BTTTTTTTTT).
eta: Sorry, just realized that this is way off-topic, so feel free to move/delete/ban.
Not a big deal Ashtinahgma, your post might be moved to the other Disseminating Bakker topic at some point.
Anyway, those maps are awesome. It would be great to get something like that for Earwa. The Wikia one might be doable, but the interactive LOTR map would take more computer prowess than I will ever have.
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Dropped about 30 at Half Price Books
Simmons, Salvatore, Tolkien
FUCKIN A WILSHIRE!!! It is beautiful to see. Wish I had a half-price around here...
I forget about Dan Simmons; bet there's a lot of people who fall into the Simmons/Bakker overlap.
@PP - "Bakker Lover"
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Thanks MG. I liked your posting format, so I copied it.
Didn't end up getting to any book sores on my vacation, but there are at least 3 more up here I can drop some off at. Might have to revisit them a few times.
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I was back at Chapters to pick up a book ordered for school (that makes three books and dozens of pdfs to read before September but thankfully yesterday was my last day at work here down south). All of my bookmarks were gone (and I can't imagine that they sold). Made sure that in this second engagement none were peeking out of the books at all.
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Gotta be more sneaky. You should have asked about it. "Last time I was here I got a free bookmark in my book, got any more?"
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Gotta be more sneaky. You should have asked about it. "Last time I was here I got a free bookmark in my book, got any more?"
Bakker fans could do this for any in store purchase. Find the book you want, stick a book mark in it, ask the check out person "Who are the Dunyain?" makes buzz?
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I've double backed to a store that I propped several in and they the books that remain still have the (book)Marks. None of them are visible.
Found a tiny used-books store close to my house. Will continue to seed the "new" books that come through.
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First time I've seen this thread, mrwutteat is an inspiration. So glad Bakker has such dedicated fans like him and the peeps on this board. What Bakker's fanbase lacks in quantity it more than makes up for in quality
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:) THREE CHEERS FOR WILSHIRE FOR KEEPING ITT GOING!!!
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First time I've seen this thread, mrwutteat is an inspiration. So glad Bakker has such dedicated fans like him and the peeps on this board. What Bakker's fanbase lacks in quantity it more than makes up for in quality
Thanks for the encouragement. The goal of course would be to get more people to do this. Have WatD? bookmarks show up everywhere there is a fan to place them.
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There is a Barns & Noble near my house that I need to get to.
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Is it an option to add a qr code to the Amazon link to tDtCB? Or do we not want to link anywhere? I'm not sure it's breaking some British law if you do that.
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"Branding" came up a few times when this was initially being discussed (http://www.second-apocalypse.com/index.php?topic=740.msg16961#msg16961).
QR code was never brought up. Might be a decent way to advertise and skirt potential legal issues. Though, then it looks more like commercial advertising and might have a great chance to be removed from books if it were seen.
The grand scheme was to have the curious search google and end up here, however a google search doesn't really lead to anywhere useful at this point and presumably we haven't dropped enough bookmarks to see any impact.
Might be a better idea just to point directly to amazon. Not sure though.
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Left some bookmarks around Toronto. They look good :). Thanks, Somnambulist, MG, GJ for your trifecta effort in creating novelty.
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Left some bookmarks around Toronto. They look good :). Thanks, Somnambulist, MG, GJ for your trifecta effort in creating novelty.
Toronto, check! I'm going to visit my sis and seed D.C. sometime
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This idea is absolutely fantastic guys!
So long as you guys don't mind me hoping on the movement here, I can canvas little old London, ON
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This idea is absolutely fantastic guys!
So long as you guys don't mind me hoping on the movement here, I can canvas little old London, ON
LONDON, ON? YOU ARE BAKKER
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Who knows, maybe he'll happen upon one if he hasn't already caught wind of it.
Both the university and college in town run spec fic classes, so I was thinking I'd fill up those books that are on the reading lists once September rolls around
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Who knows, maybe he'll happen upon one if he hasn't already caught wind of it.
Both the university and college in town run spec fic classes, so I was thinking I'd fill up those books that are on the reading lists once September rolls around
This is brilliant.
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Over the years I've taken both courses (also the sci-fi fiction ones) and I remember back when I was in the fantasy fiction course at the college that my prof was flipping through slides quickly at the end of a class to try and cover the important points before we left and I caught Bakker's name on one of them as I sat idly pretending to be listening.
I approached her after class about it (this was in the period where "we" were waiting to hear the final details and release date for WLW) and as it turns out it was a slide from the previous years course. She had had Bakker come in and do a reading and quest lecture for a period. It was as disappointing to learn it wasn't scheduled for out class as it was exciting to have noticed his name there in the first place.
So I'm kind of hoping those textbook lists might attract a few more to witness an apocalypse
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>Hit up Staples for a couple hundred bookmarks
>Spend more time cutting them than took to print them
>Head to biggest Chapters in town and impregnate the spec fic section with the sticky black semen that is the Second Apocalypse
>Martin, Erikson, Herbert, Rothfuss, Lovecraft, Tolkien, Abercrombie, Lawrence, Morgan, Simmons; the list goes on
>Next week, grab the spec fic reading lists and hit up the uni bookstore and some used shops
[Compressed some jpegs to get you guys some photos. Thanks Wilshire for the pro-tip ;)]
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Awesome work - though figure out how to attach photos :P. Pro tip, pay attention to file size.
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>Hit up Staples for a couple hundred bookmarks
>Spend more time cutting them than took to print them
>Head to biggest Chapters in town and impregnate the spec fic section with the sticky black semen that is the Second Apocalypse
>Martin, Erikson, Herbert, Rothfuss, Lovecraft, Tolkien, Abercrombie, Lawrence, Morgan, Simmons; the list goes on
>Next week, grab the spec fic reading lists and hit up the uni bookstore and some used shops
[Compressed some jpegs to get you guys some photos. Thanks Wilshire for the pro-tip ;)]
Glorious Camlost!!! As in you are and your work is!!! how about "Camlost, Apostle of the Apocalypse"? :)
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Oh, just saw the photos. Love visual aides.
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Oh yeah! Got some stellar literary terrorism in today, though I'm saddened to report (again) that Bakker is not stocked anywhere in Canada...
Deposited some more of my dwindling stack of bookmarks in Abercrombie, Abraham, Brooks, Cook, Erikson, Gaiman, Gemmell, Jordan, Lawrence, Martin, Moorcock, Newman, Prachett, Rothfuss, Sanderson, and Tolkien.
Also, while I was wasting my afternoon in book bliss, I overheard a women talking to her friend about getting her husband a new book, as he had caught up on ASOAIF. Unfortunately, as Bakker is not stocked (>:(), I couldn't immediately hand her TDTCB. So I recommended Gardens of the Moon, slipped in a bookmark for her, and sent her happily on her way (as she was about to buy a Wildcards anthology because Martin's name was on it). Hopefully, her hubby enjoys Erikson but ultimately finds his way to us :).
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I had forgotten about this, but when my wife was reading Darkness a few months back, she mentioned the book to someone she knows who lives in India. He snap bought the entire series. Last I heard though he hadn't actually started it yet though.
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I have a stack of uncut bookmarks, probably 400 of them.