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It's almost 10am, and snow has just started to fall. "Heart attack snow," said the man on the Weather Channel in a chipper voice. The weather gurus are calling for up to 8 inches of heavy, ...
Posted by Summer at 04:04 PM
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All right, I haven't been able to get much done lately but I am about to go get my new iBook (knock on wood). I'm already having a bit of buyers remorse and I haven't even bought it yet. It's just so much money to lay down and I don't even have the ...
Posted by LadyLitBlitzin at 05:19 PM
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This is why I love having a blog. I can ask a question like "how do you cut tile?" and I actually get answers. Lissy, thanks for confirming that ...
Posted by Summer at 10:07 PM
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Yeah... what a week. Why am I a loser? I didn't make the Notable Stories in the storySouth Million Writers competition. Just kidding -- I know it was good to be nominated. Why else am I a loser? I missed my long-awaited reunion dinner with Jen on ...
Posted by LadyLitBlitzin at 01:53 PM
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After fortifying myself with a large cup of coffee and a SpongeBob SquarePants cookie (it was on post-Valentine's clearance at Target for 30 cents, and came with three food-coloring markers. I bought ...
Posted by Summer at 09:22 PM
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A long time ago, before Dorian was even conceived, Vince and I decided to fix up the basement a bit. When we bought the house, the basement was finished, but nasty-finished. The walls were blue faux-...
Posted by Summer at 01:14 AM
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We interrupt the ongoing Lenten reflections to bring you the following rant about other people's children.I had this idea that I was a non-judgemental mom. I've got my own ideas about ...
Posted by Summer at 02:54 PM
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Well, seeing how I have a few short stories that are late in responses, it brought to mind one of the themes of the last year or so -- where lit mags will say that they are on hiatus or have long response times (recall my post about McSweeney's with ...
Posted by LadyLitBlitzin at 08:58 PM
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I'm referring to my subscription to Poets & Writers. I guess I will renew, since it does provide updates to markets, but sometimes I get so annoyed... This month's big feature was "A Room With a View," a look at writers' ...
Posted by LadyLitBlitzin at 10:23 PM
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I started to respond to the wonderful comments I got on the last entry in the comments section, and then realized that I had too much to say to cram it into the comments. And hey, it's my own blog, ...
Posted by Summer at 04:17 AM
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I checked out Black Clock's site and I have to say, it looks cool, and I'm certainly interested in getting my hands on a copy, though I've never run across it on any shopping excursions. I believe Hebdomeros has posted favorably about it in the past....
Posted by LadyLitBlitzin at 04:29 PM
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If anybody remembers the old movie Suburbia, a punk rock anthem in film form, the kids all called themselves "TR" -- The Rejected. Anyway, the 2005 Novel and Short Story Writers Market had a neat feature about rejection, by Will Allison. He talks ...
Posted by LadyLitBlitzin at 03:42 AM
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Any etiquette guru will tell you that there are four big topics that you should avoid in polite conversation. Money, sex, politics, religion. Don't go there, for fear of being labeled impolite. ...
Posted by Summer at 01:34 AM
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... but close! Well, not close at all, but statistically speaking... It turns out that that storySouth Million Writers Award won't announce finalists until Feb. 22. There have been 1,200 nominations, so they're still reading through them, I guess. 1,...
Posted by LadyLitBlitzin at 12:34 AM
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All right, so even this is a writing-related blog, it sure doesn't hurt to talk music once in a while. Over the weekend, during my consumer spending frenzy, I picked up "eMOTIVe" by A Perfect Circle. It's an album that consists mostly of covers, ...
Posted by LadyLitBlitzin at 02:44 AM
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And so, it was a rainy, foggy Valentines Day night, much like this one, about 7 years ago, when I struggled on a 2 hour rush-hour commute (should have been forty minutes, but ended up being that long because of the traffic and the inclement weather),...
Posted by LadyLitBlitzin at 02:28 AM
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Vince and I, in many ways, are very romantic. Not a day passes without kisses, cuddles, and multiple "I love you"s. I know he loves me. He knows I love him. We are very happy. But for ...
Posted by Summer at 05:29 PM
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I have to say I passed a lovely afternoon sitting down to read Barrelhouse and drinking some creamy Earl Grey tea. I highly recommend Barrelhouse's debut issue. I thought it was solid and entertaining just about all the way through (with the ...
Posted by LadyLitBlitzin at 02:15 AM
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2001 was, I think, the Year of the Rabbit, but for us it was the Year of the Bad Dog. It wasn't a good year for a lot of people; forgive me, but that may just be the understatement of the ...
Posted by Summer at 07:36 PM
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For any of you who wanted to try your hand at submitting to Night Train, the magazine's off hiatus and is now accepting submissions again as of this month, according to its Web site. I also recently ordered the print edition of Barrelhouse, and it ...
Posted by LadyLitBlitzin at 06:11 PM
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Okay, after my egocentric couple of days I'm getting back to normal. I'm sure once Feb. 15 comes around and I don't get into the finalists for that award, it will all be business as usual, hee hee. It was nice to be nominated though. So today I went ...
Posted by LadyLitBlitzin at 07:32 AM
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I have a bad habit -- occasionally I Google myself. It sounds so self-centered, but since I have fairly high exposure writing for my day job, I sometimes get a little worried that I'm being savaged on the Internet for some of my commentary. It still ...
Posted by LadyLitBlitzin at 06:12 PM
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Okay, I feel like I've been run over with a steamroller this week, but last night I did get what seemed like a heartening rejection from StoryQuarterly. See excerpt below: This fine, very strong story, [BLANK], received serious consideration here ...
Posted by LadyLitBlitzin at 11:52 PM
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The boy has started calling himself "boy". He doesn't say his name, at least so far as I can tell, but he's got a good grip on the words "me", "I", "my" and &...
Posted by Summer at 09:59 PM
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Nope, this isn't about me stalking out some poor hapless guy who is the object of my affections. Rather, "the crush" refers to the feeling like my head's been in a vice all week. Ha... it's been a tough, overly busy week at work. Not to complain ...
Posted by LadyLitBlitzin at 04:57 AM
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I knew the monkey year had one last surprise for me: flu! Yesterday Dorian surprised me after lunch by demanding "bed". Bed? You want to go to bed? Weren't you just begging me to go out ...
Posted by Summer at 02:20 PM
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These are some blogging features that I've wanted for some time, and I think they'd help with the whole cross-pollination aspect of the genre (some would probably say "fertilization", after the hype of the past year)
Posted by brian at 04:37 PM
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Okay, here's the next ridiculous step in my procrastination last night. After the Super Bowl, I heard that commercial for Nike Pro Apparel blaring on my TV -- I had heard it a week or so ago, and it freaked me out. Because I realized that this song ...
Posted by LadyLitBlitzin at 12:47 AM
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The Year of the Cock, that is. What did you think I was talking about? You have a dirty mind.Tomorrow is the last day of the Year of the Monkey, and I wish it was today. This year can't ...
Posted by Summer at 09:45 PM
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Yep, I said earlier that I need to be doing writing -- for work. Yes, for work. So far, I've managed to do all kinds of shit that has nothing to do with the part of my work that is really looming. Okay, I do have to give myself credit for working ...
Posted by LadyLitBlitzin at 10:17 PM
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Ever have a weekend where everything seems to go wrong? I guess it all started going wrong on Friday night, when I certainly didn't get much sleep. I woke up at 3am, and then at 5am there was a fire alarm in my apartment building and I got mauled by ...
Posted by LadyLitBlitzin at 05:07 PM
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Yes, Bob Marley's birthday was celebrated appropriately. Or perhaps it was celebrated inappropriately; you be the judge.We scrapped Vince's Arboretum idea and instead joined a friend and ...
Posted by Summer at 02:57 AM
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Today is, or would have been, Bob Marley's 60th birthday. Feel free to celebrate this event in any way you deem appropriate.When I was a freshman in college (I am deliberately NOT ...
Posted by Summer at 02:51 PM
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Okay, so I had a mini nervous breakdown at work today, when I found out the bands that are playing the Coachella Festival. Nine Inch Nails, Bauhaus, Cocteau Twins, Gang of Four... All right, so it's a lot of bands from my generation, but I just ...
Posted by LadyLitBlitzin at 02:18 AM
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I knew I shouldn't complain.I met Julia for lunch ...
Posted by Summer at 01:46 AM
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I got a catalog in the mail from Daedalus Books, and they have major discount books -- everything seemed to be priced between $4 and $7 in the catalog. Not everything is great in the catalog, but there were a few things that were worth the price. So ...
Posted by LadyLitBlitzin at 04:22 AM
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I was quite vague about My Dream Kitchen yesterday, and yet you all gave me some great ideas. I think I need to talk a little more about what we've currently got, and what we'd be building.
Posted by Summer at 05:44 PM
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Things I could be complaining about, but I'm not, because I'm not complaining:-- The bruises on my eyelids. While my computer was having KERNEL PANIC yesterday, I went to the mall while ...
Posted by Summer at 08:46 PM
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Just in case anyone was wondering, I haven't given up on House of Leaves. I have just gotten a little stalled out in the appendices at the end. So I'm not quite done yet (though maybe for all intents and purposes, I am). I will post a more lengthy ...