Monthly Archives: August 2009

Aug
26

Lovely Listings

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You know, being that I’m totally trapped in my house due to the market tanking, I do find this site horribly funny. And maybe a little sad.  I can’t help but wonder if these houses ever sold. I mean, really, who the hell puts a dead dog on a dresser on a house they’re trying to sell?? https://lovelylisting.com… Read more
Aug
25

Angels Can’t Write Romance…

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Angels Can’t Write Romance… by =mynfel on deviantART…or so I’ve heard. I’ve got an alternate version of this coming with some captions, but I might just have to keep them private.… Read more
Aug
24

Final in the Molly!

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Ok. The Waterboys/Gypsy Mojo is helping. 🙂 Just found out I finaled in the Molly! Unfortunately I can’t make any edits to it, but the two pubbed judges really loved it, so guess that will have to be good enough. 🙂 Off to the agent for final judging. *double-crosses fingers*… Read more
Aug
24

The Waterboys

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Meh. Lousy weekend, lousy birthday**. Rather than bitching about it, I’ll just throw this up instead. The Waterboys are one of my fav bands, introduced to me many years ago by a friend in Ireland (still think I have the tape somewhere). This song wasn’t on the tape, but that’s ok. Listening to it always puts me in a better mood. ** And no – the general bitchiness doesn’t include the feast that was The Melting Pot that night, or the Red Door spa gift certificate. Those things were quite nice. The rest of it blew big fat donkey ass, though.… Read more
Aug
23

Writing by Numbers

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In looking at the last batch of judged contest entries, I’ve begun to notice a pattern. For the Golden Opportunity contest, two of the judges gave me nearly perfect scores – one shredded me. Fair enough – it happens often enough that I can’t really put much weight on it. Judges either love the writing or hate it – as long as the opinions are inconsistent, I can’t worry about it at this point. Certainly if a particular aspect gets pointed out again and again, then it’s worth looking into – grammar, plot or what have you. But in my case, it seems to be coming down to more of a personal preference – someone didn’t like the cursing or thought there wasn’t enough info in the beginning (or too much) – etc. (Lots of opinions there where some aspect either is too much or not enough, but it’s not… Read more