Halloweenie

Posted by on Oct 24, 2008 in dish | 0 comments Heh heh heh…Dana Summers is on my weird little wavelength with today’s Bound and Gagged:
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Manfiction

Posted by on Oct 23, 2008 in dish | 0 comments Stephen King’s “Who Says Men Don’t Read” column from Entertainment Weekly, a late September installment of his “The Pop of King” column (yes, I’m behind in my reading), provides some interesting food for thought about genre fiction in general, but the divide of the sexes in particular. In countering the industry’s moanings that “men...
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Annual Dose of Crazy

Posted by on Oct 16, 2008 in dish | 3 comments So two years ago I decide to throw the biggest wrench in the world into my already packed schedule and do NaNoWriMo. Thirty days, fifty thousand words–one month to a complete first draft of a novel. Normally, I’m a save-it-up-behind-the-dam gal. I’ll think and fidget and think and ponder and then finally sit down and blurt out whole chapters at a time. Those chapters tend to be...
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Ten Bands/Artists That Remind You of High School

Posted by on Oct 14, 2008 in dish | 0 comments Bruce Springsteen – “tramps like us…baby we were born to run!”Duran Duran – “…and I’m hungry like the wolf!”R.E.M. – “…radio free Europe…”John Cougar Mellencamp – “…little ditty ’bout Jack and Diane…”The Police – “don’t stand…don’t stand...
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Leaf Peepin’

Posted by on Oct 12, 2008 in dish | 1 comment mimi père and Wicked have lived in the mountains for seven years now, and this is the first time we’ve visited in the fall. Leaf peepers, the locals call those of us who slow down traffic and wander about agape. But can you blame us? Check these out:Autumn. Le sigh. I have a sudden urge to go read some Keats.
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