Hey everybody. I’ve got a great idea. Stop falling for lousy Facebook mass emails and subsequently spamming my Facebook feed with idiotic “let’s fool the men” status updates that do nothing more than irritate me. Sorry. I’m a bit testy today, aren’t I? Well, this is the third year of this asinine breast cancer “awareness” […]
(WARNING: RANT AHEAD) Oh Goody. Time for Another Stupid Facebook Meme Read More »
Saturday, the Wall Street Journal made some waves in the YA lit world by publishing an op/ed piece focused on how dark YA literature is becoming. Twitter erupted, with many quick to criticize the author of the piece, Meghan Cox Gurdon. Some excellent discussions of the topic can be found here, here, and here. But
Dark YA, the Wall Street Journal, and Censorship Read More »
So. Osama’s dead. (Or so we’re told–I give it a few days at most until the conspiracy theorists start showing how Bin Laden’s demise is all just a ruse to distract attention away from the Birther movement.) And there’s great rejoicing across the nation. People are singing spontaneously in public, and the country’s experiencing a
Rejoicing in Death: The Wicked Witch of the East Effect Read More »
Yes, I watched it this morning. I was up working on my writing anyway, so I figured why not. I can’t say I devoted my full attention to it, but then again it didn’t really seem like something you needed to have your whole attention for. I mean, there was a lot of singing and
Thoughts on the Royal Wedding: What I Wish Would Have Happened Read More »
I just read over on USAToday that new Marriott hotels are no longer offering adult pay-per-view films. If I read it correctly, they’re not offering pay-per-view, period–switching over to some sort of internet-based option, instead. Why is this noteworthy? Well, for one thing, it’s noteworthy because up to this point, no other large hotel chain
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