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January 13, 2009 | Tuesday | 23 Comments
I wrote on Twitter over the weekend about a popular song in which Ne-Yo croons lovingly about a woman who is so amazingly attractive because… she pays her bills on time. Her car and her house are nearly paid off and Ne-Yo can barely keep his head on straight about her. Yes sir, the new heroine: fiscally savvy and financially smart. After the hurricane bowling alley the last few years, we saw heroes and heroines who could control the weather. Paranormal, I think, gained popularity because when terrorism is everywhere, it’s comforting to know who the villain is, because he’s…
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October 29, 2008 | Wednesday | 24 Comments
From Gail Dayton comes this amazing link to Joni Rodgers, the free book lady down in Galveston. Since there’s some sort of election going on right now and the media is saturated with nothing having to do with the Galveston area, Gail has filled me in: Galveston does have one advantage over New Orleans—it’s a sandbar, not a bowl. The water came up, and the water went down again…. However, houses all over town took on anywhere from one foot to 10 feet of water, depending on where they were and how high the house was elevated. (We have a…
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September 12, 2008 | Friday | 32 Comments
Stay safe down there, y’all. Or ya’ll. (Screw it - I’m from Pittsburgh, and it’s “yinz” n’at).
Anyone else think there will be more weather-powered related paranormals in a year or two?
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September 06, 2008 | Saturday | 41 Comments
Lots of links to start your weekend off with massive browsing. What you wanted to get something accomplished this afternoon? PAH! Suffer with me. Kate Douglas has a question for you: is man flank deserving of the whiteout? Not for one second do I believe the man pictured on that cover has a tush that flat, but still, man flank is problematic? Mimi Gets a Contract made me snort so hard I nearly aspirated a Splenda packet from across the room. Thanks to Angie for the link. I just laughed myself into tears reading this article about the Diagram Prize,…
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August 31, 2008 | Sunday | 12 Comments
As Hurricane Gustav takes aim at the Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas coastline nearly three years to the date after Katrina, folks are heading out of those areas under mandatory evacuation orders. Among them: conference attendees at Heather Graham’s Writers for New Orleans Conference, scheduled for this weekend. The conference began in 2006 as a way to bring business and tourism back to New Orleans. Here’s hoping everyone, residents and tourists alike, in that area is safe, the damage is minimal, and that next year, the conference can return to a healthy, happy city of New Orleans. I’ll be there with…
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