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Maybe a tiny sun emanates light from inside her head, filling all who see her with a sense of joy, and an overwhelming craving for tasty, delicious nachos." One bedroom apartment, third story walk up, move-in bonus is free alligator Coroner caught using the same cut-and-paste autopsy report on hundreds of dead bodies after identifying "normal prostate gland and testes" on girl's body Nothing excites men like a good cat fight, especially when one of the girls has hiden razor blades in her hair Pilot flying out of Cancun Mexico forced to make emergency landing when 295 passengers experience floating back teeth, simultaneous turtleheads Drunk guy spots a goat while staggering home, kidnaps it, then steals a Volvo
Or get a life, one or the other Yet another idiot caught after robbing store because he forgot to fill up his truck's gas tank Nothing to start out your big day like finding out some practical joker has cancelled the reservation for your reception
Did anyone else hear that popping sound? For once, a guy attacking people in the city with a sword is the good guy Victim shot dead by police officer in clothing store named Man Alive Man tries to beat speeding ticket by blowing up traffic camera with explosives
Cowboy Song Lyrics
Lyrics and chord changes to popular country songs, arranged alphabetically by
artist and album or CD.
Miss Snark: The Literary Agent
In which Miss Snark vents her wrath on the hapless world of writers and crushes
them to sand beneath her T.Rexual heels of stiletto snark.
Is this something that I could include in my query letter to an agent? I can understand perhaps one good review but when three or four people give you the same positive comments, I think that it is perhaps something to add in a query letter.What do you think? No.Comments from readers do not belong in a query letter
posted by Miss Snark at | What the hell did I do with that cluegun? Dear Miss Snark: I'm fairly new to the site so don't consider me too much of a nitwit if you've already answered these questions: Have you written and published your own fiction books? Or any other books for that matter? What qualifies anyone to be a literary agent, anyway? Seems there are more frauds out there than anything
Or any other book.What qualifies me to be a literary agent? The fact that I know a little something about the publishing industry, how to advocate for an author and steer an author's writing career.I'm sure you've queried a great many agents in your quest for representation
posted by Miss Snark at | You want to measure something, let me get that yardstick out of your asterisk Dear Ms
Am I less effective for doing that than an agent who sells something for no dough to a publisher after one phone call? Her closing ratio is 100%
Go Fug Yourself
Commentary on celebrities with unfortunate dress sense.
Not only is it an apt statement for her life in general, but she also wasted no time in undoing the gracious -- albeit skeptical -- unfugging bestowed upon her on Friday: One thing that was givethed that He should have takethed away from her hot little spray-tanned hand was the Manic Flowbee of Terror she borrowed from Tom Cruise, and apparently refuses to give back
Nicole Kidman-Cruise-Urban must be dying that she didn't think to extort this thing in the divorce.) Alas, though, Tara's problems don't stop with her wan mane
Because nothing says "sensitive and potentially ultimately uplifting film about our nation's tragedy" like a jaunty, undone bow tie
"Jaunty undone bow tie" actually says "handsome, rakish cad knocking back a G and T during the last hours of the Governor's Ball." Listen, I'm not saying that Maria Bello hates America, or anything
Posted by Jessica at 10:28 AM | August 04, 2006 I'm Not Confident Enough To Call It An Unfugging, But Still: Tara Reid Today is apparently the day I say nice things about people I usually slag
But hold onto your hats and glasses, because I'm about to say something nice: I LOVE what she's wearing to the World Trade Center premiere: In fact, I like it so much, I'm not even going to get into how tired I am of her wearing this sort of Heidi on the Mountain, Crossed Braids On the Top of Her Head hairdo
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The Modern Age
Rock photography from the New York scene.
It was only after I posted that thing about him looking like the guy from The Ataris that I realized I had a photo of him in the crowd at the last Young Love show I went to and THAT is why he looked familiar
MUSIC OF THE MOMENT: , s/t August 9th, 2006 Yesteray I went to to check out their… mac ‘n’ cheese of course! It’s the only thing they serve at this restaurant
I do have to say, wearing is really played out, but not the stupidest thing you could wear to a festival if you plan on being in the crowd., however, are very stupid
Yarn Harlot
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee goes on (and on) about knitting.
1999 Grammy Awards
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Exploding Dog
Single panel elaborate colorful stick figure art. You supply a title, and if it
inspires the artist he draws it out.
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The Minor Fall, The Major List Music reviews and commentary.
Happy Easter! Posted by TMFTML at April 05, 2006 BETRAYING ELIZABETH SKURNICK We knew that printing the following early work from a genius of undisputed talents might result in some criticism, but we had no idea that so august a figure as Helen Vendler, Porter University Professor at Harvard University, would weigh in so brutally: It should have been called 'Something Lizzie Found on Her Hard Drive and Sent Over to Alex.' For Skurnick had years to publish the poem included here, had she wanted to publish it
Cheese but nothing matches the impact of a great artist, and in the first half of the 21st century, no American artist in any medium was greater than Skurnick
What matters is that she left behind a body of work that teaches us, as Britney Spears once said of literature generally, '[a method subtle and flexible enough to be the same thing as an absence of any method] whatever.' The publication of 'Ballad Of The Love-Scorned Anywoman, ' which gathers for the first time Skurnick's unpublished material, isn't just a significant event in our poetry; it's part of a continuing alteration in the scale of American life
Pieces of Song
Pieces and quotes from some of the world's most beautiful song lyrics.
And as we wind on down the road our shadows taller than our soul there walks a lady we all know who shines white light and wants to show how everything still turns to gold and if you listen very hard the tune will come to you at last when all are one and one is all to be a rock and not to roll
And these memories lose their meaning When I think of love as something new
Though I know I'll never lose affection For people and things that went before I know I'll often stop and think about them In my life, I love you more
- - - Billy Joel, "Just the Way You Are" Don't want to close my eyes I don't want to fall asleep 'Cause I'd miss you, baby, and I don't want to miss a thing
'Cause even when I dream of you, The sweetest dream would never do I'd still miss you baby, and I don't want to miss a thing
- - - Aerosmith "Don't want to miss a thing" Down the street the dogs are barking And the day is getting dark
- - - Laura Nyro, "And When I Die" I'm so afraid to love you, but more afraid to loose Clinging to a past that doesn't let me choose Once there was a darkness, deep and endless night You gave me everything you had, oh you gave me light And I will remember you Will you remember me? Don't let your life pass you by Weep not for the memories - - - Sarah McLachlan, "I Will Remember You" I'm wild again, Beguiled again, A simpering, whimpering child again - Bewitched, bothered and bewildered am I
The Nurture Assumption
A woman borrows a baby to test her theory that some women just do not want to
have children.
Lott Nothing comes between kids and their Calvins -- except charges of pedophilia (03/12/99) BROWSE THE MOTHERS WHO THINK FEATURE - - - - - - - - - - By Camille Peri Why it's time for Mothers Who Think       The N urture assumption A WOMAN BORROWS A BABY TO TEST HER THEORY THAT SOME PEOPLE DON'T WANT TO HAVE CHILDREN, THE WAY OTHERS DON'T WANT TO HEAR MICHAEL BOLTON
'If someone suggested that you buy a horse, ' this simple-minded comparison begins, 'and told you that you'd have to feed it and brush it and exercise it every day (thereby cramping your schedule radically and forcing you to miss out on a good number of other things that you might like to do), have to spend nights sleeping on the stall floor when the horse gets sick, pay for vets and farriers and blankets and bridles (which aren't cheap), and moreover have to continue to live this way for roughly the next 20 years -- you might be reluctant.' Granted, there are good things about horses
Moreover, much as parents take pleasure in a wide variety of otherwise unappealing tasks -- changing diapers, feeding, bathing, dressing -- so horse people enjoy grooming, polishing tack, cleaning hooves and forking hay
The Complete Bushisms
A frequently updated storehouse of quotes from Bush that are bizarre, nonsensical,
and sidesplitting.
'One thing is clear, is relations between America and Russia are good, and they're important that they be good.'âStrelna, Russia, July 15, 2006 'We shouldn't fear a world that is more interacted.'âWashington, D.C., June 27, 2006
The interesting thing about him is that I read threeâthree or four books about him last year
And what's best is for Don Rumsfeld to remain as the secretary of defense.'âWashington, D.C., April 18, 2006 'I strongly believe what we're doing is the right thing
'See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.'âGreece, N.Y., May 24, 2005 'It means your own money would grow better than that which the government can make it grow
Look, there's a series of things that cause theâlike, for example, benefits are calculated based upon the increase of wages, as opposed to the increase of prices
I mean, we should never ascribe natural disasters or anything else, to God
I DON T WANT TO MISS A THING ?
Don't Shoot
Iraqi giggler laughs at the luncy of the world.
Iraqi Giggler Laughs at the Lunacy of the World 28.8.06 When you set out to become an activist, you set out to change the world, because you believe that you have something to offer that can possibly make the world a better place
The only reason I didn't finish it in one night is because I didn't want to continue reading while half asleep, I wanted to be fully awake as book explored the dimensions of these different characters, I ended up reading it in two night, although I could have read it in just one night, had I pushed myself.There are many things I enjoyed about this book
Another character imagines that the cancer cells that are invading her body are like soldiers that need to be educated to change their ways, she keeps talking to the cells hoping that they will attempt to live more peacefully with the rest of the cells in her body, Yet in the end she uses chemo therapy to zap them, so much for the believe in non-violence.The novel is writing from different perspective of the different characters, on the surface it seems that the narrative is unrelated, as each character is focusing of different events in their own life, but what emerges is a total tapestry of a life lived and experiences and helps to inform us to what it was like to live through interesting times.I found many similarities in the book to activism today in Vancouver, the only thing I found missing from the book that is present in my experience of activism is the long meetings and bickering among members
Walking Women
Walking and hiking at all levels in the English Lake District.
So we've introduced 'Frequent Walker Miles' as a way of giving something back to you
The airports we use will follow soon! Glossary A fun page with explanations of various words you'll find in the holiday descriptions and on the Past Holidays pages (like Ghyll, Fell, teashop, faffing, walking...) A page for frequent visitors who don't want to miss a thing! 'no frames' version of the walking holidays This unframed version is for the search engine 'spider robots' which cannot otherwise access our main information pages with their permenantly available side menus
The Internet Movie Database
Features plot summaries, reviews, cast lists, and theatre schedules.
But something's upon them before they can gather much evidence -- something 7-feet tall and susceptible to only silver bullets or ablation of the heart or brain ..
() Movie/TV Quote of the Day FRANKIE A man once told me that the only thing you really own is a piece of ground the size of your shoes
WIRED SCENARIOS: - The Future? You don't want to know.
The Future? You don't want to know.
So why worry about doubling the carbon dioxide in our atmosphere - in fact, why even keep records? If scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration proved beyond sane doubt that we were destroying the planet, we might feel obliged to try to do something
There is such a thing as 'alternative' futurism, but it has a far worse record of accomplishment and insight than Vannevar Bush did
But why say anything? The crystal ball's as cracked and clouded as the ozone layer
These things aren't a joke
Practically anything beats depending on Scripture
Real futurism means staring directly into your own grave and accepting the slow but thorough obliteration of everyone and everything you know and love
Talking Points Memo
Commentary on political events from a politically left perspective, by Joshua
Micah Marshall.
Sometimes a story has my attention and my interest but I simply don't have anything to add
So I don't write anything, even though that often prompts emails from readers who say I'm giving the topic short shrift
But as this war has progressed I've realized there's something more at work in my writing process
Because what is it exactly I'm responding to? When I attack this or that double standard Israel is held to or the subterranean animus against the Jewish state am I really talking about anything you see in the Post or on ABC News? Hardly
Unless something big happens to change the dynamic, it's Speaker Pelosi in 2007
And it is yet another moment when you wish there was something such as a United States government interested or even remotely capable of grabbing hold of this situation and pulling it back from the brink
What's New Pussycat
Miss Shauny from Canberra, Australia.
This is the kind of thing you miss when you live on opposite sides of the world
And that's another thing you miss when you live on opposite sides of the world
'Michael McAngelo.' Yet another thing missed when you live on opposite sides of the world
I cut it into three chunks and offered the plate to the Mothership, 'Righto, have some of this.' 'Oh no! I've had enough sweets.' And that was when the whole whole room somehow fell silent - the silver spoons ceased to clink on the china cups, the pianist stopped playing - just at the precise moment I bellowed, 'Come ON! You'll never get this fancy shit again!' The final thing I miss when we live on opposite sides of the world
My breathing returned to normal only when I could successfully count all my fingers and read BANK OF SCOTLAND on the ten pound note I handed over to her
G: Right, we've got exactly one hour to get everything over and put the tent up before the forecasted rain
A man's eyes were on fire and everything in his face screamed, 'Merde! I am one angry Frenchman!' And that's when I fell a in love
Boing Boing
A directory of wonderful things.
Electronic music is buzzing from the nightclub across the street, mixing easily with the laughter of the guys who are watching this, this me-pinned-and-helpless thing
This article from the BBC last December describes India doing the same thing for medicine
John Scalzi's Whatever Column
Writer and music reviewer.
As evidence of this I was presented with a whole bunch of links that turned out to be really tremendously not useful because nearly all of them were like dropping in on a heated argument that had a subtext one could learn nothing about, and anyway the argument was in Albanian, so all you knew was there was a lot of yelling and shouting
The e-mails hinted that this was something along the line of or, the former being a case where someone was stupid enough to try to commercially publish their fanfic, and the latter being a case where an author put forward an original work, portions of which were plagiarized from other novels
This writer may or may not have plagiarized other works in their fanfic -- I can't tell at a glance, nor am I inclined to research the matter to any great length -- but if they did, I'm hard-pressed to see why it matters in the larger scheme of things
Let's remember one fundamental thing about fanfic: Almost all of it is entirely illegal to begin with
Copyright holders may choose not to see it, or may even tacitly encourage it from time to time, but the fact of the matter is that if you're writing fanfic, you're already doing something legally out of bounds
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