Tonight I met a couple of wonderful travelers from Maryland. I thought I would make a little post for them of good Gotham songs. New Yorkers add your own in the comments. Even though I will be leaving the city soon, I will always love her like my disastrous first wife. Continue reading
No, NBC, you may not ruin The Sound of Music. But Haha! Who are we kidding? This is NBC we’re talking about. Today it was announced that NBC has cast country singer Carrie Underwood as Maria Von Trapp in their three-hour Sound of Music live broadcast. We assume this means Taylor Swift never made it to the top of their short list? Seems totally unlikely, we know. But maybe she was preoccupied house hunting for a place to live exactly seven inches away from her latest love interest. Continue reading
No, we don’t have flying cars, smart-ass robot maids, or magic pills that taste like a roast beef dinner, but do not despair! Technology has not totally failed to live up to it’s promises of ease and adventure. Continue reading
News outlets are reporting that on Tuesday a 15 year-old girl in Afghanistan was beheaded after her father turned down a marriage proposal. The perpetrators? Allegedly two relatives of the girl, one of whom, a cousin, who wanted to marry her. Reportedly, the father refused the proposal because she was too young. Continue reading
I subscribe to Publishers Weekly (the bible of the U.S. publishing industry) and get a news feed every morning. Today there was some gobsmackin’ news to wake up to: E.L. James has been named Publishing Person of the Year.
Within the confines of the book industry, it’s a very big deal.
Let me refresh your memory. E.L. James is the penname of Erika Leonard. She wrote an erotic trilogy, the titles of which are Fifty Shades of Grey, Fifty Shades Darker, and Fifty Shades Freed.
They are selling like shovels in a snowstorm, like handguns when the aliens invade, like toilet paper at a diarrhea festival. It is the fastest-selling adult (as against the categories of juvenile, or young adult) series ever. There’s going to be a movie. Continue reading
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