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The Pre-Trip Busies
Why is it always so frenetic trying to get ready to leave town for a few days? Could it be because I put a bunch of stuff off and am now trying to get it done, along with the new stuff? Probably.
I answered not a stitch of email this weekend, so apologia for that. There was biking and brunch and squirting the little dog with half-vinegar, half-water solution to make him behave, and etcetera. I’m afraid there won’t be much to see around here until we are ensconced in Madison, but I do plan to update from there with entries and photos and maybe even some videos.
Oh, also, Wiscon-goers — we have never done the Sunday night dress up thing, but I’m considering bringing something fun this year. I have this Betsey Johnson fuschia and black tea length dress with a foofy tulle skirt that really deserves a night out. Too much?
p.s. This issue of Say…? Best. Ever. Seriously. Finishing up now. Available for purchase at the Small Beer table.
p.p.s. Okay, the foofy dress is coming along, assuming miraculously wonderful Carmen’s dry cleaning can do a minor repair for the roses sewn along the neckline.
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This One Never Gets Old
Your Score: Rosalind Russell
You scored 26% grit, 57% wit, 23% flair, and 11% class!
You are one wise-cracking lady, always quick with a clever remark and easily able to keep up with the quips and puns that come along with the nutty situations you find yourself in. You’re usually able to talk your way out of any jam, and even if you can’t, you at least make it more interesting with your biting wit. You can match the smartest guy around line for line, and you’ve got an open mind that allows you to get what you want, even if you don’t recognize it at first. Your leading men include Cary Grant and Clark Gable, men who can keep up with you.
Find out what kind of classic leading man you’d make by taking the
Classic Leading Man Test.
| Link: The Classic Dames Test written by gidgetgoes on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the The Dating Persona Test |
(Via Literaticat.)
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Friday Poem
let there be new flowering
let there be new flowering
in the fields let the fields
turn mellow for the men
let the men keep tender
through the time let the time
be wrested from the war
let the war be won
let love be
at the end
Friday Hangovers
- Wah, we are suddenly totally unable to go up to Dayton tonight to hang with the fabulous Ms. Holly Black and her tour buddy Cassie Claire, but if you’re nearby, you should get thee to their reading. They’ll be at Books & Co. at 7 p.m.
- The sad news about Lloyd Alexander is everywhere. He was a giant. A few links: WashPost obit, Read Roger has thoughts from Elizabeth Law, and Terri Windling at Endicott.
- I can’t remember where I found this, but Laurel K. Hamilton pictorial hijincks. Do. Not. Miss.
- J.L. Bell on the picture book/gender study.
- Matt Cheney on Mary Ann Caws’ Glorious Eccentrics: Modernist Women Painting and Writing. I must get this book.
- Colleen on the difficulties of finding YA mysteries and where to look.
- Just got the new U.S. Orbit imprint’s initial catalogue and mission statement in the mail and found both very impressive. Plus, those are truly lovely covers they’re designing. I’m really looking forward to its launch this fall.
- Have a nice weekend, gang.
Thursday Hangovers (updated)
- Katherine Dunn, the genius who wrote Geek Love, will be at the inferior 4+1 the week of May 11 taking questions and things. Yay!
- Another rousing endorsement for Cecil’s Beige, which I really will post about at length sometime soon.
- More writing wisdom from Joe Schreiber, much appreciated by those of us in drafty, revisiony hell: It seems to me that even if you’re just starting out — maybe especially then — this commitment to quality, page after page, seems at least as important as the amount of published material. Yes, you ought to write a lot. Yes, you want to make an impact in the reader’s consciousness. Yes, you ought to work hard and seriously and produce, produce, produce. But at the end of the day, when you have the thing that you’re going to take out into the world as a reflection of your heart, your ambition, the height of your powers — in a word, your soul — you owe it to yourself to make it the best you can be. And be sure. Because even if nobody else knows, you’ll know.
- Toni Schlesinger on the imaginary inhabitants of display apartments. (Via Jenny D.) (Note: I had to do print view to be able to get this on a background I could read.)
- So, Veronica Mars is
probablydead and Kristen Bell’s a Gossip Girl. Huh. Updated: Not that the show’s been that great this season, but still sad. And what a terrible, unclassy way for the network to "inform" Rob Thomas.
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Wiscon Timings
Since everyone else is doing it, and we’re only a week away (!), here’s my programming schedule at Wiscon:
GWENDA BOND, RICHARD BUTNER, CHRISTOPHER ROWE, CHRIS NAKASHIMA-BROWN LLC (Reading) Sunday, 10:00-11:15 a.m. in Conference Room 2
Yep, I’m reading with the boys this year.
These Kids Tomorrow (The Craft And Business of Writing SF&F) Sunday, 2:30-3:45 p.m.
With YA so popular in its many incarnations, just what are some of the youth trends going on today? What will be the trends for tomorrow? For fantasy settings? Come and speculate. Patrick Samphire, Sarah Prineas, M: Hilary Moon Murphy, Gwenda Bond
This one should be fun.
Otherwise, I’ll mostly be in the GC bar and environs.
Two Silly Quizzes
Gacked from Betsy at Fusenumber8, because I’m too swamped for real content today. (I was a-scared of the Dickens test.)
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Numero 2 behind the cut:
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