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Monthly Archives: May 2006
Funny scammer. Make me laugh.
Via Dawno’s blog, the outrage Barbara Bauer triggered today has spread like wildfire around the blogosphere: Barbara Bauer hit number 5 in the top Technorati searches! lol Click the link to see a screen shot :-) Scroll down to today’s … Continue reading
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Taking action!
Here’s a link to the top 20 worst literary agents. None of these agencies has a significant track record of sales to commercial (advance-paying) publishers, and most have virtually no documented and verified sales at all (book placements claimed by … Continue reading
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Absolute Write taken offline
Via Miss Snark: the Absolute Write website has been pulled. Making Light has the story. Absolute Write was an excellent resource for writers: it publicized the activies of scam agents. It’s not clear precisely why the site was taken down. … Continue reading
Question of the day
On Instapundit, Glenn Reynolds, blogging on the Congressional response to the Jefferson investigation, asks Really, are the Congressional Republicans trying to throw the 2006 race? Ya know, it sure looks that way, doesn’t it. Technorati Tags: William Jefferson
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Lactic acid reflux
If you’ve ever been sore a day or so after a workout, you’ve probably “known” that the cause of the pain was a build-up of lactic acid in your muscles. After all, that’s what “they” always told us. Well, turns … Continue reading
Draft one, done
Completed the first draft of my current work-in-progress yesterday. Surprisingly emotional moment for me, which I hope means the book’s ending will have an emotional impact on readers. It’s short, at 57K, but one of the items that I backburnered … Continue reading
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Worlds within worlds
I’m fascinated by the question of whether there really is a line between one’s inner and outer experience. How much of what we “objectively” experience is “in reality” ha ha ha a projection of our inner lives? I’m not going … Continue reading
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Republican spending
This drives me nuts: . . . total federal spending has . . . grown 67 percent since the Republican revolution of 1994 — from $1.5 trillion in 1995 to almost $2.5 trillion last year . . . Over the … Continue reading
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Proud parent
My daughter is taking Suzuki piano and this morning she did her Book 1 recital — she performed all the pieces in Book 1. Afterward, her teacher told me that she was “outstanding.” “She couldn’t have done better.” I’m in … Continue reading
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But is a bark ever just a bark?
In England, that country’s Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs is now offering a course in barking for dog owners, reports Nicola Woolcock for the London Times. The course doesn’t teach people to bark. It teaches people how … Continue reading
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