Jesse, that is not helping me now when my headache making me want to kill people.
If you take sexual advantage of her, you're going to burn in a very special level of hell. A level they reserve for child molesters and people who talk at the theater.
Book ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Natter Area 51: The Truthiness Is in Here
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Sue - Apr 24, 2007 7:57:10 am PDT #4095 of 10001
hip deep in pie
DavidS - Apr 24, 2007 7:57:13 am PDT #4096 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Who wants to hear some good news?
As I mentioned a while back, the editor of the very cool magazine Oxford American had contacted me after reading Lost In the Grooves. Recently he pinged me asking for a submission for their Best of the South issue.
I ponged back with a few story ideas, but not full pitches. (This is when I was polling Natter for Southern Topics.). I didn't hear back from him.
I went back and re-read his email and realized my topics were too broad. They needed stories more like...best BBQ Pork Sandwich in Memphis and Best River for Innertubing and Best QB in the SEC.
Yesterday, I woke up and decided to just take a flyer, write a 500 word piece and send it in. Shit! Deadline was yesterday. So I pounded it out, intent on not wasting the opportunity and wrote about The Best Exploitation Director In the South - John Michael McCarthy (director of such classics as Damselvis, Daughter of Helvis and The Sore Losers ("They wanted meat so they ate the flower children") and Superstarlet A.D. (roaming gangs of women in a postapocalyptic world dressed only in vintage lingerie fighting off marauding cavemen) and, the best Teenage Tupelo.
He took it! It's only like $135 but that ain't bad for a 500 word piece that I banged out in a morning and any time I get paid for writing is just grand with me.
Jesse - Apr 24, 2007 8:00:07 am PDT #4097 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Nice, David!
Jesse, that is not helping me now when my headache making me want to kill people.
But just think -- in 20 years, you'll still remember who those people were!
Sue - Apr 24, 2007 8:01:16 am PDT #4098 of 10001
hip deep in pie
But just think -- in 20 years, you'll still remember who those people were!
I finally met my neighbor on Saturday and within 5 seconds of her telling me her name I forgot it.
tommyrot - Apr 24, 2007 8:02:37 am PDT #4099 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I finally met my neighbor on Saturday and within 5 seconds of her telling me her name I forgot it.
I'm pretty much that way with everyone I meet. I have to make a conscious effort (usually involving a mnemonic device) to remember someone's name after I've been introduced to them, otherwise I'll forget.
Allyson - Apr 24, 2007 8:07:10 am PDT #4100 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Nope. That seems all a million years away.
I think a lot might depend on how it's received. Could bomb. Could do well.
I was in Borders this weekend, and I checked out the humor section, which is where I'll likely be shelved. I'll be somewhere on the same shelf as Dave Barry, which cracks my shit up.
Anyway, I saw four books by a new author sitting there, and thought, "oh, it's her first book. And there's four copies sitting there. Maybe I should buy one."
Even though I wasn't interested in the subject matter. I just wanted to give her a sale. I was totally projecting.
Daisy Jane - Apr 24, 2007 8:11:51 am PDT #4101 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Russell Simmons and Benjamin Chavis, leaders of the Hip-Hop Summit Action Network, said Monday that the recording and broadcast industries should voluntarily censor the "misogynistic" words "bitch" and "ho" and the "racially offensive" n-word from future recordings.
I get all tangled over this issue. I do not find the words themselves (only speaking to 'bitch' and 'ho' here, as I do not get to tell other people what should be racially offensive to them, only what is to me) offensive. It's all about context for me. I'd be happier about a statement that was less about individual words and more about, "Hey let's look at how we're portraying women in our music and whether that's a message we want to put out there."
Steph L. - Apr 24, 2007 8:20:24 am PDT #4102 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
David, that's awesome! Clearly you work best under an oppressive deadline.
Lee - Apr 24, 2007 8:23:50 am PDT #4103 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Jesse, that is not helping me now when my headache making me want to kill people.
But just think -- in 20 years, you'll still remember who those people were!
Just maybe not all the time. When my father had his episode of transient global amnesia, the doctors said there seemed to be some correlation to having migraines as a kid.
DavidS - Apr 24, 2007 8:23:52 am PDT #4104 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
David, that's awesome! Clearly you work best under an oppressive deadline.
It's funny sad because it's true.
Speaking of which I have to get back to the book.
I've been very productive the last week as I've been doing what I think of as the exposition parts. Things which were just roughed out and noted, but now I've got to fill them out. It's going well.