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Author Archives: Mr. Dan Kelly

Chicago writer interested in many things.

Ray Gun — X1 PROTOTYPE

Monday, February 6, 2012

My son asked me to build him a ray gun. amazing what you can throw together in five minutes with some scrap cardboard and duct tape. Of course now I want to take it back and IMPROVE it.

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All Aboot Canadian English, Eh?

Monday, February 6, 2012

A friend at work just passed this along to me. She worked as a designer in Toronto for a few years, and ended up toting it back to the states, where it remained wrapped in plastic until she thought, “I know! I’ll give it to the word nerd at work!” (She didn’t really say that.) […]

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Damn

Monday, February 6, 2012

It’s amazing how chickenshit I’ve become about writing. I am gripped with a feeling of bland doom.

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Death Is COOL

Friday, February 3, 2012

Had the splendid opportunity to visit the Cultural Center to view Morbid Curiosity: The Richard Harris Collection, an amazing, beautiful, terrifying, grisly, perplexing, saddening, and hilarious collection of artworks focused on one thing: DEATH. Is it possible to feel both reborn and doomed? I sure did. If you’re in town, see it, immediately.

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Plot

Saturday, January 28, 2012

Okay, that’s a few thousand more words written and a more solid, if perplexing, plot uh, plotted. You’ll see.

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Sickness

Friday, January 27, 2012

Okay, I’ve opened my browser about a dozen times this afternoon, each time wondering what I’m supposed to do next, because my tab buttons are gone for Facebook, Twitter, etc. I AM DISEASED.

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Mr. Dan Kelly’s Pop Bottle Collection

Sunday, January 22, 2012

I collect pop bottles. I can’t recall when I started, but I wouldn’t doubt it happened around Christmastime in 1996. I drove up to Michigan with my girlfriend (now wife) to meet her parents for the first time, and quickly discovered that not much happens in Grand Haven and Muskegon during the winter months (unless […]

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O, Muse, Sing Within Me!

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Morning pages are a great idea, and I try to fill at least a page in my notebook every day (usually with digressions on art, rants, and segments of nonexistent novels). At the same time, as I write them, I imagine a suburban housewife in a flowery maxi-dress, sipping chamomile tea on the back porch, […]

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Which Search Queries Bring People to mrdankelly.com? …And Why?

Monday, January 9, 2012
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Dreams

Monday, January 9, 2012

I woke up this morning from a terribly realistic nightmare about losing my job. I had to go through a grueling exit interview that got rather nasty, and several perfect opportunities for a dramatic exit were ruined by circumstances. I guess I should have been tipped off that it was all a dream, however, since […]

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