The lines between traditional publishing (with a proper editor), self-pub and just plain printing are getting ever more blurred.
As you can tell by the title of this post, I’m tending to regard them much like a cat who is seeing a new puppy introduced into the household. Is this a good thing? A bad thing? Will it wreck the joint? Continue reading
I’m really fond of the line “shine a bright light”, meaning to expose cruel or shady dealings that need some sunshine on them so they will whizzle up and disappear like a salted slug.
Lots of others, too. “Sue the Bastards.”
“Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.” Ray Bradbury. Continue reading
Today is a day that I won’t turn on the news or the television. I cannot handle the grief porn that will inevitably spew out of the media. I choose to remember 9/11 a different way.
I choose to remember how we came together as a nation, overlooked our differences and helped one another. I was actually in France over 9/11 and couldn’t get back to Bermuda where we were living at the time. We ended up in London. I was there when “God Bless America” was played in front of Buckingham Palace. I had people stop me in the streets and tell me how sorry they were after hearing me speak in my American accent to my 2 year old and 6 month old children. I remember the kindness. Continue reading
I love summer, all sultry nights and sunshine and steamy rains, changes of scene and no coats and time to spend with friends you don’t see enough of during the year. My summer was working out fine, until the week-end before Labor Day. Continue reading
“I had an office-mate once who…”.
We’ve all had them. The one who eats garlic to stave off colds, and only manages to stave off anyone wanting to be within 50ft of them. Continue reading
On the left: perfectly good business-casual interview look. Below: not so much.
Interviews. We all hate them. Dread them beforehand. Fear we flubbed them afterwards. But they are a necessary evil.
Woman I know was once interviewed by a company that was all gung-ho starting a new project. They flew her somewhere to interview with someone from Mahogany Row. Then there was a long, long silence. Through the grapevine she found out the project had stalled, and was eventually abandoned. Then guys who had interviewed her started turning up at her company looking for work. Continue reading
Yesterday Nurse Wretched asked a very good question: what is your earliest childhood memory, and how old were you?
Her question was prompted by having read this article by Bill Briggs.
The earliest memory that stuck with you likely came when you were “…3 1/2 years old, according to numerous past studies. At that age, the hippocampus, a portion of the brain used to store memories, has adequately matured to handle that task, experts say.” Continue reading
Snooki Polizzi has spawned. Baby Enzo came into the world about 3am, bar time at the Jersey Shore. The rep for Snooki announced Enzo’s birth thusly:
A rep for Polizzi told MTV, “The world just got another Guido!!! … Nicole, Jionni & Enzo are doing great!”
I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. – Thomas Jefferson Continue reading
Today I was driving home on a surface street and saw not one but two speed traps, one on one block, one on the next. Motorcycle police. They each had a customer. This pairing seems wicked unfair, but it’s common around here (southern California). I guess they tag-team. Or just like to have someone to chat with.
I’ve only had one speeding ticket in my life. It too was wicked unfair, but yes, he did catch me fair and square going over the limit. But not by that much. Continue reading