Bitchin' Blog Posts
: Wasting Your Hours
January 17, 2009 | Saturday | 44 Comments
The National Endowment for the Arts released their report “Reading on the Rise” on 12 January documenting that for the first time in 25 years, more Americans are reading. An increase in readers? Excellent! According to the demographic breakdown, young adults show the biggest increase (yay!) and fiction is the largest growing market in adult readers (also yay!). Here’s my favorite statistic from the report: “Online readers also report reading books. 84% of adults who read literature (fiction, poetry, or drama) on or downloaded from the Internet also read books, whether print or online - and nearly 15 percent of…
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December 02, 2008 | Tuesday | 13 Comments
I’m hoping Jane Porter‘s sense of humor is iron clad and in top shape.. Not only did the trolling asscheeses of hell unleash themselves in the comments to a Seattle PI article about Porter’s book-to-movie on Lifetime this month, but it seems the poor woman is also being seduced in fiction. With bondage!
Is “not Googling the name of one’s heroine” the new black? Because dude. Ouch.
[Thanks to Serena Robar for the link.]
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September 28, 2008 | Sunday | 43 Comments
I am trying out Akismet on the Bitches today to see if it can put a stop to some of the irritating as hell comment spam we’ve been attracting. However, if this interferes with your ability to comment, please let me know via .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) and let me know if you were a logged in user or not, and what happened when you tried to say howdy.
Thanks - and my apologies for the unavoidable delay, mind the gap, and thank you, drive through.
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August 15, 2008 | Friday | 16 Comments
Today, we have assorted music, some of which may get stuck in your head. But it’s a good thing. Maybe.
First, from Sherri, a clip from “America’s Got Idol Talent Dancing with the Ice Truck Drivers” (yet another reality show). The best part, as Sherri says, is when the Hoff gets up and dances.
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