As an aside, I'm kind of pissed that S&S gave such a supremely shitty writer a 65k advance.
INORITE!
I was like, fuck you, dude. FUCK YOU.
Oh, I get it. You just don't like who did the rescuing, that's all. Wishin' I was your boyfriend what's-his-height. Oh wait, he's run off.
Spike ,'Potential'
Natter 69: Practically names itself.
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.
Strix - Nov 17, 2011 9:06:47 am PST #7264 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Allyson - Nov 17, 2011 9:07:22 am PST #7265 of 30001
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
I kind of want to take up a collection to send his agent a nice arrangement of sedatives.
sumi - Nov 17, 2011 9:07:50 am PST #7266 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
Happy Birthday, Jilli!
We had a pot luck and November birthday celebration today. Lovely cake and one of my co-workers made the c.i. chocolate cupcakes.
Yum.
Strix - Nov 17, 2011 9:08:25 am PST #7267 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Screw that; send 'em to every hard-working writer who produces and sells books AND works a FT day job, and just read about his 65K advance...
Allyson - Nov 17, 2011 9:09:04 am PST #7268 of 30001
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
He sounds like this guy: [link]
Amy - Nov 17, 2011 9:15:02 am PST #7269 of 30001
Because books.
How to SUCCEED, I'm pretty sure.
In other words, WINNING. Awesome.
I read the "About" on his blog, and he apparently is trying to eliminate sleep from his schedule. Good luck with that.
Strix - Nov 17, 2011 9:15:48 am PST #7270 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
SMH. People, seriously.
I'm going back to coupon sorting. It's very soothing...
brenda m - Nov 17, 2011 9:16:06 am PST #7271 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
It's like Coach times eleventy.
Jesse - Nov 17, 2011 9:16:13 am PST #7272 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I was glad one of the first comments on that piece was from a guy who is now medicated for his bipolar disorder and can actually speak to how it makes life better....
Jessica - Nov 17, 2011 9:19:00 am PST #7273 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I want to have the kind of life where waiting a few weeks for a $22k check is "begging for table scraps like a bitch"
But the best part had to be this one right at the beginning:
Your company is stuck in the year 1850 or whatever, when ships came from England with books to sell to the New World.
Your company (and indeed, whole industry) is stuck in slavery-era thinking.
1850 or whatever! Slavery! WON'T SOMEBODY THINK OF THOSE POOR ENSLAVED BOOKS!