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Excitement abounds!
I am inappropriately excited that Rookie, a new online magazine for teen girls curated by that precocious fashion blogger everyone's talking about, will apparently have a fiction section.ktsparrow, the...
View ArticleLate-Night Linkless Fun
It's nearly 2am and I am giggling, as I just read a comment on a blog somewhere that read, in part:...Jesus never said anything to the effect of, “If thou art being taken advantage of, persist in...
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What happened?
Well, my friend called me in the morning, waking me up. When I answered the phone, she said, "Weren't you going to go to the Borders in the basement of the Twin Towers this morning? If so, don't. Turn...
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A Forgotten Tragedy
More than one terrible thing happened on 9/11.The milk expired today! It was practically full! WHY DIDN'T THE HOUSEHOLD INTELLIGENCE APPARATUS HEED THE WARNINGS?!Ah well, I guess I'll just have to take...
View ArticleThe Ego Has Landed
I'm sure most readers have heard the latest micro-scandal about Hamlet's Father by Orson Scott Card. (If not, here.) Most shocking to me what this from Card's rejoinder to his critics:Since my...
View ArticleSpeaking of Card
Occasionally, people on the Internet look around at their Internet friends and wonder aloud how Orson Scott Card keeps publishing books if everyone hates him so much for his homophobia.* The problem...
View ArticleNew SENSATION review on Goodreads
I suck, just like...uh, Kurt Vonnegut and Peter Straub?Of course, if you're one of those child molesters who actually enjoy the work of Vonnegut or Straub, click here to file with the federal government.
View ArticleSell Me
I have rewards points burning a hole in my pocket, and thanks to my garage sale, some space on the shelves.Recommend me a book. Recent. No bullshit.
View Article"US Day of Rage"
The occupation of Wall Street is on for Saturday, with a notion to bring tents in order to stay the night and protest Monday morning in time for the opening bell. It's an Adbusters thing, though here...
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I Am Long Island
...and others.I can't wait for this. I wanted to have a story in one of these _____ Noir books forever and fought-slash-begged my way into this one. The begging took the form of a query letter asking...
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2012: The Musical
2012: The Musical is a play by the San Francisco Mime Troupe, about a radical theater troupe being corrupted by corporate grants. The SFMT itself had a $50,000 shortfall last year and managed to make...
View ArticleMonday quick notes
I didn't look at The Emmys last night, save for the last half hour. Even after three years here, I'm still unused to tuning in at five o'clock for live primetime shows. I also have very little interest...
View ArticleAnnual Tedious Fitness Post
Nothing is more tedious than reading about someone else's workout routine, except that today is Talk Like a Pirate Day, so now fitness is only the second most tedious topic.Anyway, a year ago this week...
View ArticleIt's only Tuesday, remember...
It's sort of a slow boil, but I still have some high hopes for lulz on this comment thread. Political correctness! Let's interface!
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New Girl
New Girl is a TV show with a highly implausible premise. Specifically, that this woman:can't find a date because she's a dork.Is it hard for dorky girls to find dates? Sometimes. But not when they look...
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Many years ago I had an exceedingly minor role in the formation of The Campaign to End the Death Penalty.The group has two chapters in Texas.
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The Revelator, Revealed!
The Revelator, a magazine founded in 1876, has lived many lives over the past century and change. And now it's back, with its first and likely last online issue by editors Matthew Cheney and Eric...
View ArticleThursday commercial notes
A brief article by me on the topic of How To Find Time to Write. This is, of course, trickery meant to get you interested in taking my nine-week course The Storyteller's Toolbox, which starts on...
View ArticleQuote of the Day or, If You Have To Ask...
Well, am I no more than a victim of bourgeois ideology being sucked into the vortex along with millions of other unfortunates, constructing an elaborate rationalization for a simple idiosyncratic...
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