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If just one more thing in my house breaks, I'm going to lose my freaking mind. And if that one more thing that ...
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Has anyone ever read the literary magazine Five Points? It seems to have a whole lot of critical acclaim but I just ran across it... I had never heard of it before or even seen it, even though it seems to be a magazine that sometimes offers up ...
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There is nothing, NOTHING, like being woken out of a sound sleep by the noise of your toddler playing with a chainsaw.It's a toy chainsaw, naturally, and naturally enough it was given to ...
Posted by Summer at 04:45 PM
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Ah, the disappointment. This month's Wired had an article that really enticed me with its headline: Why Right Brainers Will Rule the Future. For anyone who needs a refresher course, the right brain is the creative side of our processes. The ...
Posted by LadyLitBlitzin at 05:54 AM
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For those of you who keep count, I just received my second form rejection in a matter of two days today. What's perhaps worse, is this story is what I consider my crown jewel of my story portfolio. I've been aiming high with this one -- obviously ...
Posted by LadyLitBlitzin at 05:09 AM
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All right, so tonight I was too tired and braindead so I didn't have anything proper for Rabbit Hole Day that Maktaaq let us know about. So, I figured there is a veritable cornucopia of (weird!) songs featuring Alices. (And no, I don't tolerate the ...
Posted by LadyLitBlitzin at 04:13 AM
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Posted by brian at 03:29 PM
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I returned to work today and felt like a pile of rubble had fallen on my head. Well just in the fact that some stuff had gone on without my knowledge (seeing how I was in my sickbed Monday and Tuesday, other than brief bouts on this blog). Nothing ...
Posted by LadyLitBlitzin at 04:47 AM
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While recovering, Smith writes Babel, her fifth book of poetry.
Posted by brian at 06:53 PM
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I am down in the dumps about the fact that I live in a dump.Still no running water. My manly-man husband did his manly-man husband duty and tried to fix the broken pipe. We're lucky, he ...
Posted by Summer at 04:30 PM
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Our Annual January Plumbing Distaster just went down. Once again, our easy-freezy pipes have sprung a leak, if by "leak" you mean "inch-long gash spewing hot water". And it's <...
Posted by Summer at 07:23 PM
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... is a strong partner. I watched The Daily Show yesterday (don't ask me what day it was from, it was TiVoed) and Jon Stewart interviewed John Grisham. I found it interesting that he said his wife is an important influence over his work. ...
Posted by LadyLitBlitzin at 06:08 PM
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All right, so I'm not feeling well today so I'm not at work nor am I even working at home. I'm not sure what it is, kind of a big case of "ick" followed by the feeling that my brain's not working properly. I just woke up, what a long winter's nap ...
Posted by LadyLitBlitzin at 06:58 PM
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1. A very effective method for cutting down my Internet time is to have my husband remove the keyboard from my computer and hide it in the basement for four days.2. I have to be very ...
Posted by Summer at 05:06 PM
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So I was just pretending it was really bad outside -- so what! Ha. After eating a lot of mediocre food and watching rather mediocre movies (Stepford Wives, Resident Evil 2) this weekend, I finally ventured out today and the streets are very clear. I ...
Posted by LadyLitBlitzin at 06:59 PM
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I kind of like when the forecast is for a snow storm, even on the weekend. (During the week, the office rarely closes, I'd be more likely to just work at home.) But on the weekend, it's pretty much, well, I'm staying in and I'm totally justified to ...
Posted by LadyLitBlitzin at 04:57 PM
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...in the House of Leaves. I was just commenting about some of my first impressions (I'm about 70 pages in), and decided to just make a post about it. This book, wow. Somehow it manages to make you suspend your disbelief and suck you right into it, ...
Posted by LadyLitBlitzin at 12:59 AM
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I just finished Chuck Palahniuk's (Lord, will I ever remember how to spell that man's name right off the top of my head??) Diary (a novel, in case you were wondering). It made a good buffer in between two longer pieces, Dhalgren and next on my ...
Posted by LadyLitBlitzin at 01:11 AM
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Now this one's worthy of a blog posting. After all my bitching about McSweeney's non-responding ways, I finally got that long-awaited rejection today. And... you may ask, how long did the response take? Uh, 20 months! Yes, indeed, this story was ...
Posted by LadyLitBlitzin at 05:23 AM
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Let me start by saying this: I'm fine. Totally fine. So fine that the radiologist-doctor said something along the lines of "I'm not sure why your doctor sent you here" for the breast ...
Posted by Summer at 08:24 PM
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Okay, I have not received my mythical Amazon.com gift certificate yet and I've got a bunch of stuff sitting in my cart. I thought it was interesting, though, that there are only four copies of Gargoyle No. 48 left at Amazon, with more on the way. ...
Posted by LadyLitBlitzin at 01:33 AM
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Today I went to the dentist for the first time in three years.It occurs to me that what I, at least, truly dread about dentist visits isn't the pain, but the chastising. I hate the ...
Posted by Summer at 09:45 PM
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Okay, so I'm about to break my own record for number of insane blog postings in one day. What the hell? Maybe it's that there were a ton of other more constructive things I should have been doing today -- it's a bad habit. Anyway, it's gonna be ...
Posted by LadyLitBlitzin at 04:29 AM
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Does anybody know if there's a way, in Word, to create two columns throughout an entire document and be able to write in both the columns consecutively? The columns function doesn't seem to be allowing me to do this, which seems stupid to me. Any ...
Posted by LadyLitBlitzin at 07:05 PM
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Okay, so upon awakening, I realized the snow is gone now. Easy come, easy go. Rewind to Saturday night, and I went to see the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center. A friend of mine landed free tickets through her employer, and they were ...
Posted by LadyLitBlitzin at 03:31 PM
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It's obscenely late on Sunday night (er, Monday morning) but I have Monday off SOooo... I watched "Requiem for a Dream" and then had to follow it up with "The Matrix" to cheer me up a little. Damn, "Requiem for a Dream" -- I just have to say, damn! ...
Posted by LadyLitBlitzin at 07:40 AM
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Right before New Year's, I made the painful decision to give up my morning 4-shot latte and instead replace it with a glassful of Source of Life Energy Shake. Mrs. Stripper Pants introduced me to ...
Posted by Summer at 04:32 PM
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Update: Oyster Boy Review is closed to submissions for the entirety of 2005, due to a backlog of submissions. Previously, when I checked, they had said they were closed to submissions till this month. Take that one off the list of places to submit ...
Posted by LadyLitBlitzin at 04:49 PM
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Okay, then, Dhalgren, by Samuel Delany -- what can I say? I'm not sure what to say. It was definitely one of the most unique books I have ever read. Ever. I see now what Hebdomeros meant when he was talking about the difficulty in categorizing ...
Posted by LadyLitBlitzin at 04:18 PM
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I finished Dhalgren last night, and while I have a ton to say about it, I think I'm going to hold off for a bit. Just because -- all I have to say is WOW and I haven't quite collected my thoughts yet. At any rate, I also had a question. What does ...
Posted by LadyLitBlitzin at 12:16 AM
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I'm wrecked from the unaccustomed strain of putting in a full day in the office, so instead of offering up a real blog entry, I wish to call your attention to a few ...
Posted by Summer at 11:39 PM
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Unfortunately, I suspect my coworker didn't really start working on the front end until Thanksgiving. And then, you know , there's the holidays. And then, of course, his trip to India.
Posted by brian at 09:24 AM
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Yep, two steps forward, one step back... Since I seem to write a lot about relationships (when I'm not writing horror, hahaha), I have tried a gazillion times (ok, exaggeration) to get into Conversely, an online magazine that supposedly pays $100 ...
Posted by LadyLitBlitzin at 02:27 AM
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A few photos from the fabulous birthday playgroup we had this morning:The front of the birthday cake
Posted by Summer at 09:03 PM
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I was the happy recipient of a windfall today -- a $100 Amazon.com gift certificate is on its way to me in the near future. Now, that's really going to brighten my January, considering this month is generally a time when you batten down your hatches,...
Posted by LadyLitBlitzin at 05:11 AM
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Dorian is having a doot-doot birthday. It is all about the doots. Here a doot, there a doot, everywhere a doot-doot.(What's a doot? A doot-doot is any sort of wheeled vehicle. Cars, ...
Posted by Summer at 01:01 AM
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The night I gave birth to Dorian was bitterly cold. I dressed myself hurriedly, in between trips to the bathroom to vomit, and I shoved my feet into shoes without socks. Shortly afterward, as I ...
Posted by Summer at 03:08 AM
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So, I've already shared that I write a lot for work. A lot. Whew! But the funny thing is, and I've always had this problem, I just don't speak as well as I write. I guess that's why the whole Information Age has treated me well. Because for me, an ...
Posted by LadyLitBlitzin at 01:39 AM
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I've been wondering if maybe my work's not ironic enough for today's literary marketplace. I see short stories out there that blow me away -- they're ironic, cynical, and so funny. It's the brand of fiction that I see a lot in Gargoyle, and what I ...
Posted by LadyLitBlitzin at 12:48 AM
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I feel the need to apologize for the fact that I can't seem to come up with a cohesive idea for a blog entry. All I've got are scattered thoughts, so that will have to do....I've been putting together ...
Posted by Summer at 05:48 PM
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Hahaha, I just wanted to make it clear that yes, I'm still reading. Ha. I am still working on Dhalgren, which some of you know, is 700 or 800 pages, and with the holidays, I didn't always have time to read. (And getting back into the swing of things ...
Posted by LadyLitBlitzin at 04:43 AM
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Since I blogged about going to see White Noise, I guess I should say how it was. I'll start with this: EVP (electronic voice phenomenon, or recording the voices of ghosts) does scare me. I have a bit of skepticism about paranormal stuff, but I do ...
Posted by LadyLitBlitzin at 04:37 PM
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I just sent a gentle email nudge to the editors of one magazine where I submitted, and their response is a bit overdue. Maybe it's a bit too early for me to do so; I can understand what with the holidays, maybe they're running behind, but then again,...
Posted by LadyLitBlitzin at 06:12 PM
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Anybody out there ever have what feels like a really good week, and then suddenly, at the end, feel like a bunch of people kind of shit on you? (Figuratively speaking, of course.) Talk about raining on the parade. I don't know, I just suddenly lost ...
Posted by LadyLitBlitzin at 10:56 PM
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There's not much going on here, but I'm compelled to make note of some important events happening elsewhere in the blogosphere.First of all, Tertia...
Posted by Summer at 07:43 PM
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Spammers, that is. I do believe I have received my first piece of non-solicited literary spam. (I think?) How incredibly, incredibly bizarre. I guess this means that one of the places that I submit to has released some email addresses? Perhaps ...
Posted by LadyLitBlitzin at 02:02 AM
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Remember how I was really worried about something over Christmas? And then I did some research, and I felt much ...
Posted by Summer at 01:00 AM
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Today I sat in US District Court, wondering "how much of this can I blog about?"I'm pretty certain that I can tell you about the Jury Lounge, with its multiple TV sets all tuned ...
Posted by Summer at 01:02 AM
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It's been a couple months since my last point where a whole bunch of responses were expected imminently from magazines, and now I'm at that frustrating point again, where a few are due, a few overdue, a few are coming up in about a month. Strange ...
Posted by LadyLitBlitzin at 12:05 AM
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My cousin and I are trying to plan a trip to New Orleans for late February or early March. I've never been there (although I've always known I should go there, and I can hardly think of a better place to spark some creative inspiration (and to ...
Posted by LadyLitBlitzin at 05:26 AM
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It's resolution time again.The depressing thing about resolutions is that you have to admit your failures. What is a resolution, after all, other than a promise to quit being such a ...
Posted by Summer at 05:06 PM
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I watched the movie Sylvia tonight and I'm not sure quite what to think of it so I'm going to blather here for a while. It was definitely interesting from the writer's point of view, although I suppose it's nice to theorize that we most of us don't ...
Posted by LadyLitBlitzin at 05:08 AM
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I'm back. I have just been so busy Christmatizing and Holidaying I haven't been able to post. But I'm back, and I even have a poop story.Holiday, Part 4...
Posted by Summer at 08:39 PM
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In regard to paying markets, Hebdomeros had suggested Word Wrights, and I couldn't find it easily through a Google search yesterday. It seems there are several entities called Word Wrights, ...
Posted by LadyLitBlitzin at 05:22 PM
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Hello everyone. I can't even believe how incredibly low key my New Years Day was. After a lovely New Years Eve party Friday night, I slept late on Saturday, went to brunch with my roommate, and ended up sitting on the couch for most of the day. It's ...