Consider yourself blown! Two twelve hour days in a row! Done! Vacation time! Calgon: where you at?!

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“People have bad things to say about publishers, but I think they still have services, and I want to see what they are. And if they end up not being any good, I don’t have to keep using them. But I do think they have something to offer.”

Surely Ye Olde NYT is being hyperbolic when they describe the speaker of these words as

an indie heroine in the literary world

?

Just because someone writes does not necessarily mean they’re part of the literary world. One step further, just because someone sells more than a million e-books doesn’t necessarily mean they’re literate.

But, hey! That’s just me!

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Take heart, the un-excellent amongst you!

Winning a creative writing award in sixth grade and graduating summa cum laude from Yale certainly don’t sound like roadblocks to success. But for Julia Glass, winner at age 46 of the 2002 National Book Award for her debut novel, Three Junes, they may have been. “Being a good student means living life by the book, in the least creative sense,” says Glass.

Indeed.

Chuck the book! Write your own!

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Why blog when I can simply quote others’ blogs? My favorite five from Rachel’s “Things I Hated 2010” on her blog NYC Babylon:

11. Members on task forces who do not do tasks.
14. That period between 4-5PM when you need a taxi and you can’t get a taxi.
21. Every fall when I realize moths have ruined 1/2 of my cashmere
22. Young girls who “Tweet” and think they are digital experts. Not true.
25. 8AM meetings

Can’t wait to hit the beach for a week with her for our fifth and likely final annual beach vacation. As much as we have loved playing “spot the Dutch ass-hat in athletic socks and crocs” and saying hi to slightly stoned Sudoku-playing Jeff while booking our champagne brunch and snork cruise…

… we’re going out in style and hitting a joint in St. Lucia. Ayurvedic supping after a spot of tennis, anyone?

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Further, I would like to apologize to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, for referring to its members as “colored people.”

From Steve Martin’s “A Public Apology”, Shouts & Murmurs, page 128 of the November 17, 1997 The New Yorker; also in his Pure Drivel [excerpt]

Does the fact that I still find this funny mean I am old, inappropriate, racist, or what?

None of the following are Onion articles.  Promise.

• Immaculata, a private Catholic university outside Philly, is charging tuition to kids who want to become professional stalkers. No word on whether any Egyptian revolutionaries will help teach this class. [article]
• Chestnut Hill College, another Catholic university outside Philly, fired a part-time professor for being gay; Anittah Patrick, a quasi Buddhist living in Philly, loathes James J. Pepper [(215) 977-1023] for being a ravenously unattractive cretin and all-around bad human being. [article]
• Rutgers is offering coed dorms, because that will totally prevent gay kids from killing themselves, unless of course, a gay kid gets assigned to room with another gay kid whose bad-idea-jeans sense of interior decor totally makes them want to kill themselves [article]
• Eastern Michigan University is hooking single parents up with baby-friendly housing and childcare.  Now all those 16 and Pregnant reality TV stars can get a traditional campus college degree! [related] [article]
• A 28 year old Massachusetts College of Art and Design student gets fondled in her sleep by a classmate, tells only the school, and then complains when he isn’t punished the way he would have been in a criminal court.  (ThenWhyDidYouNotFileAPoliceReport.com?) The fondler is encouraged to transfer to Eastern Michigan University and skulk around the baby mama dorm. [article]

Just imagine if there were a dorm shared by “straight” Catholic priests and single parents of eight year old little boys! (Wait, don’t.)

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