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First, do no harm
In light of the recent Supreme Court decision outlawing a medical practice which, to all intents and purposes, does not exist, there's been much reason for concern and fretting and the like over the past week. I've made my point clear with anyone who'll ask (and some who don't). I actually have two of them:…
Read MoreWho dressed you?
Jeez, you can take me out but you can't dress me up. Maybe it's some kind of Pig-Pen effect. But when I left the house I thought I was fine. On the subway I discovered that the zip on my skirt is coming undone from the fabric and there's a little poochy-out space at the…
Read MoreCranial ephemera
Fantasy I'm not sure where this comes from, but … Am I the only one who watched "Fantasy Island" and really, really wanted something bad to happen to Mr. Rourke? I remember one episode where he got kidnapped, and I was kind of keen on seeing him all flustered and confused and pissed off and…
Read MoreRegistration completed!
Registration Seal I have been legitimized! It's been just under two full months since I sent my story off to the U.S. Copyright Office (I know, it's copyrighted as soon as I create it, but I feel safer and more legit this way) and the wheels of bureaucracy have finally turned far enough to grant…
Read MoreRoadkill
Oops. From my birthday entry last year: Just finished up another Neil Gaiman Sandman book and Cormac McCarthy's "The Road," which is the bleakest, most depressing, most — frankly — useless post-apocalyptic book I've ever read. It's pretentious up the wazoo, eschewing apostrophes in contractions and occasionally purposefully (I have to assume) misspelling things like…
Read MoreMy first time
I'm all flushed. Seriously, it's hot in this apartment despite the chill outside, but I'm all verklempt because I've finally got a query letter I think I can live with. I'm sending it off tomorrow to an agent. They're local to where I live, which was part of the appeal in some strange way —…
Read MoreWe all scream
Yummy! For anyone who might have been feeling a little down lately, due to things like: – the crappy weather – tax time – significant other breaking up with you – Kurt Vonnegut shuffling off the mortal coil – the state of the world today – the state of bees in the world today I…
Read MoreApril showers
The slap slap, pat pat of the rain as it is coming down — as it has been coming down all day — is comforting, is womb-like. I'm comforted by the enclosed feeling of sopping, sodden, saturated outside and the endless variations of dripping that float in through my screened windows, which give me permission…
Read MoreVonnegut ephemera, New York Times style
This, found parked at the bottom of the "non-famous folks"/paid (I believe) obit listings in today's Sunday New York Times. I didn't know his dog was named Flour but, then again, I didn't give it much thought until now: Old Friends
Read MoreI’ve always wanted to write….
Few things tweak me more than the successful-in-one-field person who, later in life gets a wild hair to write a book, gets it published and then, in interviews, muses about how "I've always wanted to write, I just never had the time/interest/inspiration/free will/etc. to do it." And then over here is journalist/radio guy ("Studio 360")…
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