If there’s one thing Southern gals know how to do, it’s gab. Silly or serious, all it takes is a glass of iced tea and time. Pull up a chair, kick off your shoes, and make yourself comfy…get ready to dish!
Beware of the Doghouse!
Okay, guys, this is why you need to pay attention when your wife/girlfriend/SO drops hints in the store:NOTE: The jewelry ploy doesn’t work on all women (mimi included). You really need to know her to find the perfect gift. But no pressure, okay? You got two days. Get crackin’.
read moreIf Twilight Were…
Okay, this is very, very mean, but very, very funny. Check out cracked.com’s “If Twilight Was 10 Times Shorter and 100 Times More Honest.”Yes, I have just committed tweenage fangirl hara-kiri, but it made me laugh. What they said.
read moreP&P, Facebook Style
Okay, this is just hilarious. Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, written as Facebook news feeds. Here’s a sample: Charles Bingley is buying a house! Mrs. Bennet became a fan of Charles Bingley. Kitty Bennet can’t stop coughing!!! Charles Bingley is now friends with Mr. Bennet and Sir William Lucas. 11 of your friends are attending Assembly at Meryton. Fitzwilliam Darcy is dreading this evening. Charles Bingley and Jane Bennet are now friends. Elizabeth Bennet is not handsome enough to tempt a certain gentleman. Ha! Mrs....
read moreKnock It Off With the Chainsaws Already
This week’s cover of Time sure pegged my Pissed-Off-O-Meter. The unsmiling woman in the photo is Michelle Rhee, the chancellor of the Washington, D.C. public schools. She is one no-nonsense broad. She’s determined to make sweeping (hence the broom) changes in the D.C. system, damn the torpedoes.More power to her. The public school system in this country is, let’s just admit it, bloated and overly bureaucratic and in serious need of some housecleaning. But I have, to quote one of my more favorite movie lines, “reached...
read moreJoe the Writer?
We knew it had to happen. Samuel J. Wurzelbacher, aka “Joe the Plumber” from late in the Presidential campaign, has just signed a book deal. In today’s New York Times, Timothy Egan riffs on this in his acidic “Typing Without a Clue” opinion piece. In Egan’s view, celebrity books like Mr. Plumber’s bleed advance money and possibilities from real writers who deserve a chance far more than Mr. P deserves an extension on his nearly-up fifteen minutes.Although Egan has a point (I am, after all, one of the...
read moreNaNoWriMo Debriefing
Fifty thousand, seven hundred and forty words later, I am a proud 2008 NaNoWriMo winner, which basically means that I can post cool graphics on my blog attesting to that fact and, if I’m jonesing for concrete validation, I can download a certificate to print out. But it’s not like I didn’t know that going in. NaNoWriMo is a personal challenge. It’s also conducted on the honor system. The computer bots don’t know whether the file I uploaded for validation is my actual book or just a whole bunch of that lorem ipsum...
read morew00t! I Did It Again!
The results are in for this year’s NaNoWriMo! I am now officially aw00t! I’ll post more tomorrow on this year’s process, the book itself, and what I discovered over the past 30 days. The Viking boat above suggests smooth sailing. It wasn’t completely smooth, but there were some things I didn’t expect that turned out better than I’d thought they would.Now, off for some dinner and last-minute house cleaning. We have out-of-town guests spending the night, and I have beds to make. Nothing like a little extra...
read moreNaNoWriMo Update #4
Just over 24 hours left to go in this year’s NaNoWriMo, and a little more than 8,000 words to write. I’ll have to write fast, though–there’s a lot of book still to cover. I’ve been dwelling more on earlier chapters than in the past, so I have a decent-sized chunk still to sketch out before I can legitimately write “The End.”Okay, back to the book. More when I debrief after it’s all over. With luck (and some head-down work), I can post a winner’s badge!
read moreOMG They Just Rickroll’d the Macy’s Parade!
I don’t know which warped brain at Cartoon Network thought this up, but it’s freakin’ BRILLIANT. Watch and sing as the Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends Rickrolls the entire Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade:Excellent!
read moreYou’re My Obsession
One lovely benefit of the Interwebs is the ability to Google your whole backstory. You can look up old jobs, old home towns, historical events, and even better, historical men (come on; you know you’ve Googled your high school crush).But something gets forgotten…if you can Google, they can Google you back. And that’s exactly what happened to me last night, and I’m still wondering what exactly to do.mimi has never thought of herself as a particularly bewitching sort of woman. Fetching, perhaps. Charismatic in a...
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