So, Allyson! I pre-ordered your book today, but in my little local bookshop. I was trying to find out if they planned on stocking it, but the girl who was in today is not the Decider, but she made a note of it. And I was chatting with her about it, and by the time I got done she was so excited about your book I think she's going to order a copy for herself, too!
Ah ha! Thanks for reminding me, Liese--I did the same thing at Vromans the other day. (I also told them, Allyson, that they should really have you up for a reading since you're local and have "a significant local following already." Yeah, I'm a doof, but it would rock if it worked.)
Yay, Kathy! I'm so impressed, I really am; I can't get to the gym for anything. You're really doing great!
From Conservapedia...
From bias in Wikipedia section.
Unlike most encyclopedias and news outlets, Wikipedia does not exert any centralized authority to take steps to reduce bias or provide balance; it has a "neutral point of view" policy but the policy is followed only to the extent that individual editors acting in social groups choose to follow it. For example, CNN would ensure that Crossfire had a representative of the political right and one from the political left. In contrast, Wikipedia policy allows bias to exist and worsen. For example, even though most Americans (and probably most of the world) reject the theory of evolution,[6] Wikipedia editors commenting on the topic are nearly 100% pro-evolution.[7]
From Evolution Section.
Microevolution has indeed been seen and verified, and its effects can easily be viewed in the recent trends of bacterial diseases developing resistances to antibiotics. However, microevolution, nor evolution for that matter, ever purports to claim that a dog will become a cat over time. Instead, modern science considers macroevolution, which has also been empirically observed[1], to simply be microevolution on a large scale, where many cumulative differences spawning from microevolution cause an organism to branch off into two distinct cousin species.
It was a stronger endorsement, but the article changed while I was making the post.
Allyson, I mentioned your book to two krav instructors--one's a TV producer, and the other one's in the biz too, but I forget how. Neither of them have a clue about fandom, but the producer (who's auditioned Colin) had some vague idea I counted TV as a hobby.
Then she asked why I wasn't looking for work in the field. I told her I much preferred backseat driving to putting my money where my mouth is.
Oh, and she thinks the casting of Fillion over Sergei is a good move. I think she'd seen the original pilot.
Oh, I am getting so into American Idol. I now know why this show gets thrice weekly Super Bowl ratings. Tonight had some real performances, and the banter is so weird but entertaining! Lakisha though:
fucking wow. I can't believe I loved her more than Melinda and Sabrina Sloan and Stephanie Edwards. Another league indeed. Also so happy about the destruction of that awful Jersey girl.
I have to share this vid. Laga sent it to me to cheer me up this morning, and it's hysterical: stabbing at (Princess) Leia's birthday.
Without even intending to, I kind of watched that too, bon. And had exactly the same reactions. Though I also liked
the girl with the red-dyed hair. And the one with the really big head.
stabbing at (Princess) Leia's birthday.
Heh. Funny and very well done.
I liked
Gina Glocksen too-- she seems like someone I know, you know? And she had a good performance. But it's hard to remember that in the shadow of LAKISHA.
I don't know which one
big head is though.
