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I found these quotes from Gerard Butler’s press conference in Tokyo, where they all love the movie, “300,” to be amusingly self-deprecating: “I now have a lot more anxiety about taking my clothes off because people expect me to still … Continue reading →

Gakked from anderyn. I actually did this much earlier today, but I never got around to posting it!

The first time I tried to post this, Internet Explorer crashed, which is probably the Universe telling me I’m a tedious whiner wallowing in self-pity and I shouldn’t even bother. But I just need to get this off my chest, … Continue reading →

After a fervent crusade by the homophobes to put a anti-gay-marriage amendment on the 2008 ballot, and outrage when a parliamentary procedure was used to prevent a Legislative vote on the issue before the close of the congressional session last … Continue reading →

I should have resisted, but I couldn’t! Gakked from elisabetta611:

Okay, I just have to share this, it’s giving me too much ironic humor. As part of the research for my next novel, which I am finally getting seriously to work on finishing, I subscribed to an online newspaper archive … Continue reading →

I’m going to quit complaining about my writing woes. The current issue of Mensa Bulletin reviews “summer reading” options authored by Mensans. Included are two books in a trilogy, subsidy-published by former Marine Bruce L. Barton. The review concludes, “due … Continue reading →

I spotted this in the current Southern Review of Books newsletter. It may be of interest to people who are querying, or considering, imprints of literary fiction: “The Perseus Books Group will lay off more than a fourth of its … Continue reading →

I have absolutely no idea why I have this compulsion to compare myself to everyone else with silly memes. I suspect it has far less to do with insecurity than it does with attempts to procrastinate on stuff I really … Continue reading →

…not locked, or under a cut. Consider this an “open letter” to Livejournal and all my friends here. To be honest…I’m still sorting out my feelings about this whole affair. But I can state up front what I, at least, … Continue reading →