Call me smiley face

What would you call a book about a struggle between a driven man and a huge homicidal cetacean, written in cute little 12×12 graphical icons?

I am thinking that if it were my project I might have gone for something like Hello Moby or Sailor Doom.

Update: Funded, in the last couple of days left to go! Soon the might of the crowdsourced Mechanical Turk will be unleashed.

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Series we never wrapped our heads around

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This is the genre that can never let a story go. Scan the shelves of the section-and this isn’t even the special section most major bookstores devote to series such as Star Trek/Star Wars and Bionicle-and half of the titles will have subtitles like “Book 9 in the Shards of Treacle series.”

Shards of Treacle is good, particularly in this country where just about nobody knows precisely what treacle is like. Along those lines, I could envision a medical horror series called Panels of Death, a martial fantasy line referred to by its setting in Stemwinder’s Redoubt, and macho thrillers following the missions of the special-ops team Cadre Dropsy Azure.

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Th’ expanse of asphalt

Title for a documentary: My Shameful Carbon Footprint 

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We had contractors come in yesterday to do our driveway, courtesy of our next-door neighbors whose construction had busted the concrete up somewhat. We are not advised to park on the blacktop for a couple of days.

That’s a whole lot of petrochemical there.

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