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I admit it: I got a bit teary-eyed. That alone tells you just how freaked out I am at another 4 years of international disaster and homeland fascism. Check it out. via Jenn.

Rolled out of bed at 7:30am on Saturday, ready to dress, shower, do some free weights, and head downtown for pilates followed by local writing jam session. Stumbled into the kitchen and realized I really, really, didn’t want to do anything at all. Stayed home, watched adventure movies, did some rewriting of what I’d done

An American just returning from five years abroad takes a look at the current US political climate: Fearful of the present, the outside, the alien, the defender of America looks backward to a mythical golden age in Puritan New England. But now the white anglo-saxon Protestant is armoured with a computer. The culture of soft

Last night, I had a nightmare that I couldn’t vote. My voter registration hadn’t gone through. I showed up with my registration card, to no avail. I wasn’t allowed to vote, because I was a woman, and voting democrat. When I tried to get in the booth, I didn’t understand the punch card, because it

Ah, Crossfire… let me count the ways… Remember that Jazzercise instructor Jennifer Portnick who was told she was “too fat” to be one of their fitness instructors (though she’d been successfully teaching for some time, apparently), and took Jazzercise to court over it? Well, she got to be a Crossfire debate point between Marilyn Wan

Got another couple flat rejects from agents for crappy query letters for fantasy saga book 1 (6 months turnaround for one of them – for a *query* letter). “You’re a crappy writer I’ve never heard of. I can’t sell three copies of this frickin’ crap you crappy writers keep pitching. Fuck off.” Why do I

via atrios Check out: Spring Break Fallujah

Today’s mixed bag: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Buffy in the long-running Vampire Slayer TV series and star of the coming The Grudge, wants to follow Pierce Brosnan as the next 007. The star says: “I don’t see why Bond shouldn’t be played by an actress. Everybody else seems to be talked up for the role but

“… She explained polyamory to her mother-in-law, whose response was “That’s just wrong…. It should be either multiamory or polyphilia, but this mixing of Greek and Latin roots? No. Wrong.” I love people. via metaquotes

OK, my chiklits. New book writing starts in earnest today. I’ve got a wacky-strict schedule of 3-5 pages a day, so I’ve gotta get cracking. Taking Friday off as a writing day – I do my best writing from about 7pm-2am. Likely going to go ahead and start the Saturday cafe writing days with local