What I'm Reading This Week, besides the Palin Prank (Nov.1.)
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"Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, you'd have to be Sarah Palin."
Maybe Ms. Palin should do some reading, or how about boning up on what a real French accent sounds like and what the word protocol means. Good grief. Does this woman really think she could be Vice President? If you don't know what I'm talking about, click here for the Palin prank http://www.huffingtonpost.com
Meanwhile, this is what I'm reading. Politics remain front and center. With so little time left before the election, it's every American's duty to arm yourself with the facts. I'm Canadian and can't vote but if you can and are undecided, please follow your gut and vote!
I'm half-way through John Updike's latest, The Widows of Eastwick, the sequel to The Witches of Eastwick.
I'm speed reading at warp speed and not because it's good but because it's not. If an unknown writer submitted the first paragraph to an agent, it would land with a splat in the slush pile as over written drivel.
Oops, I didn't mean to diss an icon, but what got me was his incorrect use of the the words widdershins versus deosil. It's a thing all witches know and Updike or his assistant should have done their homework. He unwittingly(I hope) continues to propagate the negative mythology of witches.
"Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, you'd have to be Sarah Palin."
Maybe Ms. Palin should do some reading, or how about boning up on what a real French accent sounds like and what the word protocol means. Good grief. Does this woman really think she could be Vice President? If you don't know what I'm talking about, click here for the Palin prank http://www.huffingtonpost.com
Meanwhile, this is what I'm reading. Politics remain front and center. With so little time left before the election, it's every American's duty to arm yourself with the facts. I'm Canadian and can't vote but if you can and are undecided, please follow your gut and vote!
I'm half-way through John Updike's latest, The Widows of Eastwick, the sequel to The Witches of Eastwick.
I'm speed reading at warp speed and not because it's good but because it's not. If an unknown writer submitted the first paragraph to an agent, it would land with a splat in the slush pile as over written drivel.
Oops, I didn't mean to diss an icon, but what got me was his incorrect use of the the words widdershins versus deosil. It's a thing all witches know and Updike or his assistant should have done their homework. He unwittingly(I hope) continues to propagate the negative mythology of witches.
Thanks so much for providing the Huffington Post link to the Palin prank call. I hadn't checked Huffington in a while and haven't heard the prank call played elsewhere. I laughed out loud listening to that!
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So many books so little time. I am reading books, mostly books. Reading Jamaica Kincaid, Romance books, various other novels, nonfiction. Cannot stand Updike. As far as i am concnerned, contemporary drivel.
Magazines are a poor excuse for reading, they are a poor excuse for observation, writing, culture. I read them only when I was in Journalism.
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It's official... I've lost my mind.
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1:30 am for the second time... and I'm sitting the remanents of our old house, crouched over the internet using our camping cooler as a seat... leaving messages on your blog....
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I am Definitely calling off tomorrow... I'm obviously quite sick... all I can think of is.. Gee, I wonder how long before we'll have the computer up and running at the new house!
Quinn,
Everything in good time but first...take care of yourself
L.
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Well, we finished up around 4am lol. I called off and went to bed. See? Taking good care of myself lol... So I have all day to figure out where to put everything at the new house... can't wait to share the amusing (if potentially distressing) tales of the move. I believe we are taking down the computer and taking it with us. Don't know when we'll have it set up again, so you take of Yourself while I'm gone.
wishing you laughter, dearheart
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