Hello, my name is Dan and this is my DT Log.

It is done.

The DT Log story formerly known as “The Future Will Hold” in 1992 has been reprocessed into a 31,000 word novella.

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As a note, I have also decided to privatize the pages on the Timebox blog until I decide what to do with this project.

If you would like to read the story, please let me know and I will send you a link to the Google document.

Maybe I shouldn’t look at the stats to Dan Touchette’s Timebox:

I don’t think you can accuse me of keyboard spamming, because this was the passage that probably brought this search term to my dashboard:

Honestly, Troy and Andrew were most excited about this. They were the ones who networked their computers together and played Doom all weekend. Troy was practically fondling the Timebox to suppress his excitement. Andrew told him to knock it off and give to me.

So I had the Timebox in my hands, which were attached to arms around a cute red-headed girl who was, for all intents and purposes, jailbait. The only thing I needed was a day off tomorrow to enjoy this a little bit longer…

Maybe this contraption would make her boyfriend disappear.

I think you can see here that I’m only commenting on the romantic age difference of 20 to 17, which does carry some sort of guilt and delicacy.  There really isn’t anything sexual about this scene other than the fun and innocent flirting I remember from 14 years ago.

So if people are scouring WordPress pages, in search of underage girls,

well, I hereby apologize you had to read my little sci-fi story and left unsatisfied.

This is big news, because I have been working on this for two years, and the end is in sight!

I have just posted Episode 7 of Dan Touchette’s Timebox.

My original plan was to force myself to write and edit and publish every two weeks back in May 2007 – but then I learned I just don’t work that way.

So I’ve taken my time, and I think I’m more satisfied with the result.

The end of the story is coming soon!

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In order:

1. A package arrives.

2. A simple plan.

3. Terms of service.

4. ßiography.

5. A punk’dystopia.

6. Turn me on, dead man.

And the new episode.

7. Something no one else can give her.

As always feedback is appreciated and acknowledged. I still consider the story rough,

but above all, I am writing this to be a light, fun read.  Please enjoy!

Dan

http://www.thelennonprophecy.com/media/coasttocoast.mp3

Ian Punnett on Saturday night’s Coast-To-Coast AM,  interviews Joseph Niezgoda, author of a book called The John Lennon Prophecy, suggesting that the Beatle sold his soul to the Devil.

Lately, the show has been dry and boring, so it was nice to hear something lively for once.

Niezgoda claims John Lennon knew when and where he was going to die – something I deal with in Dan Touchette’s Timebox Episode 6.

Like the subtext in my story, all the clues from the 1960s “Paul is Dead” meme actually refer to John Lennon’s future death.

http://dantouchette.wordpress.com/dan-touchettes-timebox-the-whole-thing-so-far/

Something I started working back in the last century (still sounds weird, doesn’t it) – my serial novella Dan Touchette’s Timebox, née “The Future Will Hold”, may actually be completed sometime this year.

It will be the longest I have ever spent on a writing project: 16 years and some change.  The problem with that first go around (besides the fact that my writing sucked at age seventeen) was that my friends who were mentioned in the draft were anticipating a very happy future in this story.

Instead I socked them over the head with a disparate dystopia where the SMM club ended up crazy and homeless on the streets of crowded Santee.  Needless to say, they hated it, episode two of a pathetic two episodes.

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The current incarnation is still very much a rough draft work-in-progress.  I am left unsatisfied with some of the details published thus far, especially episodes 4 and 5.  I am still toying with the idea of changing the names to protect the innocence (or guilt) of my friends and acquaintences, just like Jack Kerouac.  But I must admit that I do not intention this in marketing it as a serious work of fiction – unless I can make it into a movie.

Feedback is helpful as always.  This is a work of fiction that I am writing as cool entertainment, a pleasure read.  I’ve got a couple of fans on Ozone&Shadow, and I am grateful for that.

Up next: Episode 7, Episode 8 Part I and Episode 8 Part II plus Epilogue.

I’ll see you in the future!

Episode four

Episode three

Episode Two

Well, Epsons are GARBAGE. And our much-abused Canon printer now does not work. I am posting this to LiveJournal so that Jeff and Andrew can read it.

Dan Touchette’s Timebox Episode One