tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-186292552011-12-03T01:43:35.245-07:00Insider look into the day-to-day operation of the ground-breaking e-zine, www.tqrstories.comTheodore Q. Rorschalkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16105835776489707983noreply@blogger.comBlogger651100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18629255.post-51270212046029614902007-03-30T22:18:00.000-07:002007-03-30T22:46:57.286-07:00

The river district... On one hand, the run-down but still used warehouses, day laborers keeping warm around an oil drum filled with burning scrap wood, waiting to unload the next truck to back in to the dock. On the other, abandoned factories, their interiors open to the sky, scraps of roofing clinging to structure exposed like the ribs of roadkill in the penultimate stage of decay.Between the

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down again. the site is down again. wrestling with bull, needing to post and express my stupid opinion, but the site is down again. third time in the last four days. ted, is there some work being done to the site? if not, might i throw in the suggestion that SOMEONE IS FUCKING WITH THE SITE, YO! some heathen, probably bull, maybe any one of our other enemies (we do tend to make those, don't we,

boligard doomeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15653817611807129166noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18629255.post-1156423402672715862006-08-24T05:21:00.000-07:002006-08-24T05:43:22.893-07:00

boy oh boy, somebody went in to the TQR offices and fucked shit up, bro. all the posts in the free market are gone. what happened, me wonders. did the oh so mighty on high archie come down and tweak something? did theo slide his fingers into the pie and fiddle-faddle? hard to tell. can't get in the back door to check things out, either. my passcode (for the super-secret back door sensor lock)

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What's a motherf'er supposed to do? I could compartmentalize better too if I was getting blowjobs from some vixen in the oval office. But that is, most definitely, way old news. But my point is that the day-to-day different worlds I'm facing these days(fatherhood; capital manager; wage slave [ie healthcare slave]; husband; erstwhile writer) is making me somewhat dimly defined as to what or who I

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What's it all about? You work, you have kids, you raise them to go to work. I don't know. You love. You hate. You try to leisure up, then realize that leisure is over-rated. What the hell?

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has deigned to set down again in the dank confines of the Floor. Thus, did I open said department early this quarter, in order that the prophet could have a forum. There is little activity anywhere right now, so his sermons will be welcome. Although my faith lies elsewhere (JD and coke, selah), I am eager to see what this superstar has to say. You be too.

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And then, the paradigm shifted...At the start of each quarter, all works begin on the Floor [see 'Free Market' menu item, as well as 'Staff'] where the capital managers either reject them or pass them along to the Terminal [ibid]. Specific works will not be discussed by the Floor. It will only discuss capital successes, trends that lead to capital failures, problems with upper management, or who

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Well, most of the action has shifter over to the TQaRchive blog that I opened up specifically to archive old material from the site, and it's since morphed into the catchall this here blog was meant to be. So... updates are in order. The Lobby is way improved. I'm actually proud of it and it's like one stop shopping whereas you ahd to click through men items that were labelled like business files

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Seeing as how Tessa is AWOL again, I've decided to work with Rokky myself during the Executive Suite cycle. So... I'm just easing his mind by letting him know.Hey, This quarter it'll be me and you facing off in the Exec Suite. I figure it'll be good this way cuz we'll show how to do it right by actually doing it instead of trusting in another 'Tessa' to put my vision into process. So... let not

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Sent this to the Brat and Maggie Murdock as a supplement to their stints in the Terminal upcoming Feb 15.Hello you two, I'm very excited to know you are both ready to go this quarter. Gabby DePlancher will be splitting her haul of Terminaled works between you both. You'll both still have to read all the stories sent up to the Terminal in order to comment on them intelligently, but each piece that

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Received this in response to my Informal Follow-up Gmail to all the VC who submitted capital for our Winter Issue. I thought it might be of general interest, and good PR, to boot. Dear Theodore, What a pleasure to hear from you! I'd accidently lost you somewhere in cyberspace, and then poof, you appear on my doorstep. Now, you've been branded and corraled (hope you don't mind). At the risk of

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I felt the love today. Jetse de Vries (of CG Tribal Convictions) and new VC Maria Schneider took up the gauntlet I somewhat gently threw down in my January 25th installment of From the Chair:Dear Investors,Ten days into the new quarter, we’ve received 15 new ventures. If my math is correct, that’s an average of 1.5 pieces per day, and that’s not good. The good news is our Winter Issue capital

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Case in point. Paul Finch, writer of Slayground's bio:Paul Finch is a British-based full-time writer, who works primarily in TV and film, but who is no stranger to short story markets. His first collection, AFTER SHOCKS, published by Ash-Tree Press in 2001, won the British Fantasy Award, while his short novel, CAPE WRATH, made the final ballot for the Stoker awards in 2002. Other recent

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For months smoggy has been caught in the weblike tendrils of the blogsphere. How to post, how to comment, how to make a marmalade sandwich without dribbling orange peel on the strange shuffling spheroid posing as George Bush in a tutu. But this works! Never since the chatfest golden days of Zoe hath the smogster felt so empowered. Now, if someone can explain in English how TQR works the fur lined

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The following is an interesting e-mail exchange that kinda sorta spiralled out of control. Maybe I was a bit premature with the person who was going to be Tessa and make the final decisions with her counterpart Rockefeller on the capital to be published at TQR [who I've renamed Madame X here to protect the no contested]. But I was tired of sitting around waiting for her to do what she'd

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The Executive Suite negotiations have crawled to a start, with much posturing and feeling out, although brass tacks are nowhere in sight. Five days to go before zero hour. I've got two department heads overly concerned with editing, when they ought to be hammering out some kind of settlement ratio of capital gain. And I think, with a nudge here and a tuck there, they will come to some

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me thinks i might generate a bum rap, peoples might look on me with disfavor, which, in most cases i would generally prefer. however, this rant, short and sweet as it may be, might put the axe to my neck, might get me fired, so...i have obviously gone mad. we've built this thing, this TQR thing, for months, and now two people are ruining everything. my god, i am so pissed i can't even type. i am

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i thought that with the turning of the calander all would change; the trees would become something other than trees; the kitties would become tax accountants; the sidewalks would become broken-yolked eggs. i thought the deluge might dry up. but i've found all things the same. hell, even TQR is down this morning. thanks the gods nothing has changed. that would be annoying. well, except for the TQR

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Yes. Mark Gunnells has agreed to give the Terminal the old college try, for at least one quarter. You see, staffing has been something of a slippery proposition as of late, and I didn't want to back anyone into a commitment corner they couldn't keep, so, voila!, I came up with this internship idea in order that the intern and the internee (that would be me) can both experience each other's

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As proof of my sad destiny with new wife Lulu Rorschalk y Fleiss, here is the young king holding the bag, so to speak. Her son Samuel Aaron Fleiss and Elvis were not wed long ere I was gone jetting back to Albuquerque with new family and a brain-thrashing migraine in tow. Mind you, I needed immediate attention of the shamanistic kind that could only be found where two Pinon trees came together in

Theodore Q. Rorschalkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16105835776489707983noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18629255.post-1135459482123642142005-12-24T14:20:00.000-07:002006-01-05T04:34:14.453-07:00

7:21 am. we were starving so we hit the fantasy market buffet, shoved in some serious amounts of food, sister. it is around 7 in the morning, so of course we went for the broiler foodstuffs, and then a second round for breakfast foodstuffs, and finally the desert table. never even glanced at the hundred-yard-long salad bar.theo and i have decided to drink whiskey, so we're heading for the pool,

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Doomey is pulling me hither and thither, and all I wanted to do was drink some whiskey and scope out the local talent, yes? Perhaps make a proposition to the lovely Mz. Jennifer McCarthy which she couldn't refuse. I've got the muscle to make these things happen. So, anyhow, was rather tanked at someplace with many big screens, when I decided to leave. Doomey was preoccupied with something, lord

Theodore Q. Rorschalkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16105835776489707983noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18629255.post-1134858235759253622005-12-17T15:01:00.000-07:002005-12-17T15:30:16.996-07:00

It's been a few days since I have posted anything. Probably cuz we've been so busy sorting out the capital in the Terminal, archiving the discussions, and archving them at TQaRchives, the sister blog to this one.The enmity of last week's meeting is far, far behind us. Hal 3000 (H3K) and Guy LaFloor have renewed my faith in this whole crazy venture, with the seminal work they have done. Concerning

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But seriously, the meeting was called to address the way the Terminali can expidite the process of vetting their capital, so that titles that have languished for too long can be dealt with before the end of the cycle. In other words, kicked upstairs to the department heads or their progress stopped dead at the Terminal level. What follows is the transcript of said.[13:02 H3K] Test[14:06 H3K] test

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I wanted TQR to be all about the idea you don't have to be pretentious to be serious about writing. Also, for it to be it's own little world, where drama lives for its own sake. And, too, for it to feel like the staff lives, and breathes and works there. So, you can see why the following note posted on the site this night made me feel so giddy. Without further ado...Re:Sound off like you got a

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I think I've got a keeper in the ex-pat dude now sojourning in Japan who has agreed to undertake the difficult role of T. Quincy Rockefeller. What follows is some bidness conducted via gmail. His new bio is a freaking riot, no? I'm very happy this cat has agreed to come onboard.TQR: I figure, since I now know how to make those fancy links via your names, instead of the cumbersome url-type

Theodore Q. Rorschalkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16105835776489707983noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18629255.post-1134420471379601662005-12-12T13:35:00.000-07:002005-12-12T13:47:51.450-07:00

OK, bad analogy, but I like Cheap Trick. What can I say? Rick Nielsen jams!So, Friday's big brouhaha has led to some goodness. After sleeping in for much of the weekend, shaking off the effects of the punch drunkeness suffered by my heartily-pummeled self upon the killing Floor, I got off my ass Monday and figured out how to implement a public forum in the Free Market. It's interim title is

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I went back to look at the transcript, but it had mysteriously disappeared. All that was left were a few 'Good nights' after what had been a vicious back alley brawl. So to speak. Granted, you can't 'brawl' in a physical sense inside a chat room, but if you want to get figurative about it? Sharon Tate had her baby ripped out of her while she was still alive and was hung up by the rafters again

Theodore Q. Rorschalkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16105835776489707983noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18629255.post-1134164823208121302005-12-09T14:42:00.000-07:002005-12-10T08:49:47.110-07:00

I received this gmail at my tqrquery@gmail.com address. And it made my day. Thank you, Nels!Gmail InboxJust an aside... Nels Stanley to me But you guys have the most entertaining submission guidelines I've read in a while. Thank you. Best,Nels. Being the good snake oil salesman, I promptly returned his gmail with, well, you see my marketing je nais c'est quoi? Mr. Stanley, Thank you for

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Architext has done worked in his own good time, and done the site a kick in the pants. Now, all of the staff that posts on ventures in the Free Market have their faces exposed to the cruel light of computer illumination. Please check it out here: Shiznitz

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I fired off this gmail in a fit of inspiration:Theodore Q. Rorschalk: Serial, as in a menu item to feature the ongoing corporate soap opera. Granted, we haven't keyed on this aspect to much this first quarter cuz we're concentrating on getting the process of story vetting down. But for next quarter I'm talking now. We should have a menu item titled 'Serial' that can be updated on a weekly basis

Theodore Q. Rorschalkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16105835776489707983noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18629255.post-1133893154899798592005-12-06T11:17:00.000-07:002005-12-06T11:19:14.956-07:00

Dear Investors,This day of our Lord, Dec. 3, 2005, finds TQR in flux, the “it is very hard to get something moving once it has come to rest” type entropic flux. The malaprop destiny of the biz appears to be post-Floor constipation, which I have tried to combat with suppository injections of cheerleading gmail and threats of the cessation of the cafeteria privileges of certain Terminali. I am

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Today I forwarded capital to the Terminali that somehow didn't translate from the Floor, even th0ugh it was 'sent up' originally. Such are the vicissitudes of running a business, eh?Hal 3000 has opened up a thread of inquiry and comment on the piece Cyberevenge, Inc. Could this be signs of a Terminal renaissance? Yes, there have been complications; Guevara's home/professional transitions messing

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This blog is dead. I've got to go sit on the toilet really bad right now. I've got a turtle head pushing through the cheeks and it's very uncomfortable. If I didn't have this complication and I could stay here and type for a while I'd give you all a big dose and piece of my mind! But as it stands, adios!

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Nobody's returning my gmails. I need to get a copy of Cyberevenge, Inc by Eugie Foster cuz I have lost my copy. Maggie is having that family crisis, so I may need to parcel out her remaining capital asset to one of her compatriots in the Terminal. How I lost my copy is anybody's guess. No knew posts in the Terminal since Tuesday or Wednesday, they have until the 15th of December to hash

Theodore Q. Rorschalkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16105835776489707983noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18629255.post-1133466209125603102005-12-01T12:36:00.000-07:002005-12-01T13:50:09.330-07:00

Maggie Murdock's real life mother has been diagnosed with breast cancer, which is why Maggie hasn't been very active in the Terminal as of late. We all wish Maggie's mother well, of course. And seeing as how this gig is purely voluntary and unpaid, it behooves me to recognize the difficulty of Maggie's position. So. I sent her a gmail to put her mind at ease, then sent her fellows this to let

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Blue Jones, TQR's erstwhile portrait artist Blue Jones is not returning my gmails. Alls I asked for were some cosmetic changes on the fine cartooning she'd already done. The Architext is off somewhere playing Dog and Butterfly. It refuses to acknowledge my requests for a public interface 'Investors Forum' be placed in the Free Market, or, at least, it isn't returning my gmails! What should I do,

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The Terminal is sort of inertial these days. Check it out. A few terminali shoot their wads and then not much happens from there. We had some excitement a few days back with H3K and LaFloor getting in each others hard drives over the piece The Road to Zen. We need some more of that passion. And we need some quick. I shouldn't complain, though. Things are moving forward. Guevara is getting in

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Site went down again today. HostedToday is so yesterday tomorrow! I was on them with my claws uncouched, e-mail-ily speaking. My reply -- from some kat with a name like Bargwan Divita, can you dig it? -- was the server is experiencing MYSQL difficulties. ???!!!Hell?And I should know what that is all about! Let me tell you something!THE GODDAMN SITE GOES DOWN ONCE A WEEK AND I DON'T CARE IF IT'S

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Dear Investors,This day of our Lord, Nov. 29, 2005, finds TQR heating up in the Terminal. The back-and-forth twixt LaFloor and H3K concerning the capital venture The Road to Zen is wondrous to behold. The proceedings are indubitably professional and good, but also definitely heated. Keep up the good work, I say!Anywhat, the site hasn't crashed in a week, which makes me hap-hap-happy. Guevara has

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Though nearly respectful and professional, the emnity twixt LaFloor and H3K over their discussion of the piece 'The Road to Zen' is just what I had in mind. Investors crave a bit o' the red, red crovvy with their capital-investment once overs. Please keep it up you two, our stock is rising because of it!Who will resort to a folding metal chair to the head? Or an eye gouge, even? I'm waiting for

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Half my Terminal staff seem to be absent. Maggie Murdock made her initial post concerning the piece '1.6%' and hasn't been heard from since. Guevara hasn't yet even made an appearance. I know he's been sent 'Slayground' up from the Floor via Ron Y. Raygun. So... we wait. I know they are good people, so I am not concerned overly much.Update: 1235 MST -- Guevara has contacted me, letting me know he

Theodore Q. Rorschalkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16105835776489707983noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18629255.post-1132956712604575122005-11-25T15:05:00.000-07:002005-11-25T15:11:52.620-07:00

Today, I alerted staff of the need for some serviceable modus operandi for official TQR meetings via the Conference Room. Simply put, it's all about Poo'ing. The moderator calls on a certain staff member to make a point or case for capital or whatever, and the staff member proceeds to do so. The only way somebody -- other than the persona the mod has designated as the speaker -- is to type Point

Theodore Q. Rorschalkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16105835776489707983noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18629255.post-1132769361800681192005-11-23T09:55:00.000-07:002005-11-23T15:17:55.430-07:00

Last night, (Nov 22nd) there was a meeting of the Floor to battle it out to see which of their 3 capital-gain hopefuls would get to bypass the rigors of the Terminal and the two department heads and be delivered directly into my hands. I have edited the transcript somewhat, seeing as how it took them some time to cut the grabass and get down to bidness. We'll start ... here:[23:40 ronraygun] ok..

Theodore Q. Rorschalkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16105835776489707983noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18629255.post-1132764696427178192005-11-23T09:49:00.000-07:002005-11-23T09:51:36.453-07:00

Trying TimesDear Investors,This day of our Lord, Nov. 22, 2005, finds TQR foundering off the coast of credibility. Though I am confident we will soon right our ship. Yesterday, due to a server crash, the site disenfranchised 50 odd investors who may or may not want to ever invest with TQR again. My correspondence with one Sandeep of HostedToday went something like this:TQR: Damn you Indian

Theodore Q. Rorschalkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16105835776489707983noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18629255.post-1132604355651678122005-11-21T12:58:00.000-07:002005-11-21T13:19:15.696-07:00

HOSTEDTODAY CAN KISS MY ASSThe site got some traffic (56 viewers at once) and the friggin' site can't handle it. The Terminal starts going good, and, wouldn't you know it, the server hosting TQR is a clinker and a half. So I e-mail them at HostedToday, and get a lame ass:Hello,The server load is bit high and is causing the slow connection.We will update you soon.Regards,SandeepTechnical

Theodore Q. Rorschalkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16105835776489707983noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18629255.post-1132496431306991652005-11-20T07:16:00.000-07:002005-11-20T07:20:31.326-07:00

foggy and thick. can't lift my shoes off the sidewalk, just kind of slide them along. lungs are full of some sort of fluid, must find a pack of cigarettes. the buildings are leaning in over me as i slide along, the haze is being pushed out, all brick overhead, brick and glass and steel. there's nobody on the street. somewhere around here is the TQR building. must... find... TQR.

boligard doomeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15653817611807129166noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18629255.post-1132336847689392512005-11-18T10:49:00.000-07:002005-11-18T11:05:17.276-07:00

I suppose it was inevitable that even such as I, who has witnessed all this develop since the near-prehistory of DARPANet, should eventually also be sucked into the Blogosphere...... which, a correspondent of mine once remarked, sounded like something causing a toilet to overflow...But, the Man Himself has asked for a representative from the Terminal, so here I am.We are, of course, only two days

H3Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09680805661808977745noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18629255.post-1132211789672260942005-11-17T00:08:00.000-07:002005-11-17T00:16:29.690-07:00

OK, now we're talking ... literally. Not to each other yet, but in the ballpark. See The Free Market at the Terminal to know what I'm talking about. H3K has posted some debate starters and my dear secretary Maggie Murdock has thrown her compact into the ring, even. No replies to the original posts yet, but -- having low, low expectatations for the opening day of TermOps because of my neurotic

Theodore Q. Rorschalkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16105835776489707983noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18629255.post-1132141182257679832005-11-16T04:13:00.000-07:002005-11-16T04:42:22.950-07:00

reporting from the real world. wednesday, mid-november, on my own again. someone has stolen my yellow cab, and I’ve little choice but to go back to the worm farming gig. it’s something I know, comforting in a way.i am making these note in a café, i am in desperate need of release.what is this pavlovian drip-drip of semen running down the wooden leg of the café table? of what use are these

boligard doomeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15653817611807129166noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18629255.post-1132090030705994342005-11-15T08:21:00.000-07:002005-11-15T14:27:10.803-07:00

This is my weekly update letter for the site. I thought about being vociferous in my exhortations as how the Terminali need to get on the stick, but decided to reserve judgment for another week. God help me.Dear Investors,This day of our Lord, Nov. 15, 2005, marks the one month anniversary of TQR's incorporation. It also marks our capital's transition from Floor to Terminal. Allow me to reflect

Theodore Q. Rorschalkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16105835776489707983noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18629255.post-1132005778295618372005-11-14T14:45:00.000-07:002005-11-14T15:02:58.326-07:00

Per the TQR guidelines's, uhm, er, guidelines, the last day for open submissions to be thrown onto the Floor like so many sets of dice looking for that elusive box cars or snake eyes or 8 the hard way, even, is Tuesday, November 15th. Thus, in the grand scheme of things, the Terminal should then spin into motion.As you might have noticed, up until now, not a lot has been going on there. I am

Theodore Q. Rorschalkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16105835776489707983noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18629255.post-1131899038615380252005-11-13T09:09:00.000-07:002005-11-14T04:46:10.410-07:00

has it not rained enough? here we are, trapped in this damned haunted disco, and it simply will not stop raining outside. oh, wait, there's a sunbreak! warm light beams in through the porthole and bakes my sandpaper cheeks. good christ, it feels wonderous! reminds me of a sweltering day not all that distant, a year?, when i bunked elsewhere...the kicker had come when i’d seen all the others in

boligard doomeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15653817611807129166noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18629255.post-1131779597173808292005-11-12T00:07:00.000-07:002005-11-12T01:00:07.123-07:00

Although it doesn't translate formatted very prettily, this gives you the scoop on the Floor. By golly, the headlines link to the site, which is very nice. And, his ubiquitousness on the Floor should tell you why I needed Doomey as a blog co-host. The guy is f'n prolific. He needs space, unfenced and unfettered. And I'm wondering, does Jesus do windows? Hmmm. Anyhow. Here's a half-assed, top-down

Theodore Q. Rorschalkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16105835776489707983noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18629255.post-1131747291133124132005-11-11T14:44:00.000-07:002005-11-11T22:30:52.426-07:00

got this honky jesus dude coming in at noon tomorrow to clean the haunted disco, theo. thought you might want to know, seeing as how you're the boss around here.why i hired a honky jesus dude to clean the disco: yesterday, i put up a chore board for any and all Floorites to view, i listed various chores and beside said chores i wrote down fellow floorites names, but nothing, and whoaboy i do mean

boligard doomeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15653817611807129166noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18629255.post-1131738439007982402005-11-11T12:31:00.000-07:002005-11-12T00:22:11.163-07:00

I'd always had a hankering to sample some HP Lovecraft (I believe the film Hellraiser owes homage to Lovecraft and quite a few other films do, as well, In the Mouth of Madness comes to mind), so last weekend I picked up the Definitive Volume or something like that of At the Mountains of Madness and have struggled mightily throughout this whole week to stay awake whilst reading it. I mean, it

Theodore Q. Rorschalkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16105835776489707983noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18629255.post-1131653153965763992005-11-10T12:58:00.000-07:002005-11-10T14:25:52.180-07:00

Here is a sample of the innovative practice we at TQR have come to call 'Insider Trading' wherein a character (usually not the protagonist) from one of the quarter's pieces is interviewed outside of the frame of his or her respective Capital Gain.***Though not the central character in this quarter's featured Capital Gain -- As The Flavor Runs Out -- the older brother (cryptically referred to in

Theodore Q. Rorschalkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16105835776489707983noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18629255.post-1131560318204817162005-11-09T11:18:00.000-07:002005-11-09T11:18:38.213-07:00

Empty flattery is the scourge of the creative process. There is no value in coddling, or swaddling artist’s egos like newborn babes. Serious writers are constantly on the lookout for readers who will give them honest feedback before they send their wares out into the submissions grinder.TQR is an extension of this ideology. Though part of the ‘submissions grinder’, its transparent vetting process

Theodore Q. Rorschalkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16105835776489707983noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18629255.post-1131480350479297962005-11-08T13:05:00.000-07:002005-11-08T23:39:52.453-07:00

Dear Investors,Three weeks in to the first quarter, and all is well, mostly. The submissions continue to trickle in at about an average of one per day now. Not blistering by any means, but we seem to have enough terminaled stories right now to be able to get 3 good enough to be called Capital Gains.The Rorschalk Group went off without a hitch. Stephen Crane, the next 'Big Thing' and Hemingway's

Theodore Q. Rorschalkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16105835776489707983noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18629255.post-1131401962075303092005-11-07T15:02:00.000-07:002005-11-08T11:48:17.686-07:00

Here is the transcript of a gmail conversation I recently had with Mark Gunnells concerning th status of his terminaled story 'Variations'. I started the conversation because I was concerned with the lack of attention his story was receiving from the Terminali:Dear Mr. Gunnells,As you've probably noticed, your piece 'Variations' has made it into the Terminal, where H3K has started a thread meant

Theodore Q. Rorschalkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16105835776489707983noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18629255.post-1131397416773118612005-11-07T13:54:00.000-07:002005-11-08T23:42:12.660-07:00

A person who submitted a fine story to TQR a while back recently said the TQR format was 'alienating' and he said it on the main discussion boards of Zoetrope Online Writer's Workshop. His post was understandable since TQR is to put it nicely 'a different kind of son of a bitchin' story site.' So. My point is, we've got 3 submissions today, more than in a long while. Thanks to the bemused poster

Theodore Q. Rorschalkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16105835776489707983noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18629255.post-1131175536700034762005-11-05T00:15:00.000-07:002005-11-23T15:14:49.536-07:00

Every week or two some of the staff and I have a panel discussion show on various writerly and readerly subjects. This is a transcript of the first ever TRG.Complete Transcript of the pilot episode of The Rorschalk Group, aired live Oct 22, 7pm MDT.Welcome to the first airing of The Rorschalk Group, my esteemed panelists are: ronraygun, a hard right genre man with a penchant for too much action

Theodore Q. Rorschalkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16105835776489707983noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18629255.post-1131117088738035052005-11-04T07:53:00.000-07:002005-11-04T08:34:28.870-07:00

TQR, What's It All About AlfieBy Theodore Q. RorschalkWhat's TQR?First it was nothing. The whole thing about scrolled stories on the Web finally pissed me off enough to where I asked myself the question: Why couldn't their be a better way? Page-by-page perhaps. It seemed to me like a revelation and a key to the Internet actually getting more people to read stories directly on it instead of buying

Theodore Q. Rorschalkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16105835776489707983noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18629255.post-1131077788295017182005-11-03T21:11:00.000-07:002005-11-03T21:36:02.680-07:00

Dear Investors,And I address you as such because you are investing perhaps your most valuable commodity -- time -- to sample here what we have deemed fit for your consumption. No small consideration when frivolous dispensation of your time is one of the leading causes of Total Quantitative Faculty Burnout, otherwise known as TQFB or Total Quim F-ing Blarney by the younger generation. This has

Theodore Q. Rorschalkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16105835776489707983noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18629255.post-1131076084176912742005-11-03T20:10:00.000-07:002005-11-03T21:56:10.136-07:00

Hello,My name is Theodore Q. Rorschalk, thus the title of this blog. Aside from the pun, it also points to the fact that I recently started an e-zine [www.tqrstories.com] that, I believe, will blow the status quo all to hell. That is, if enough investors catch on to the uniqueness of the concept, enough venture capitalists buy into the competitive, ego-maniacal thrill of it all, and my staff of

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