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November 10, 2009
- I just finished reading some of the stories posted on the Service Members Legal Defense Network- www.sldn.org/content/military-stories Like many across the country I was greatly saddened last week by the senseless killings and injuries at Ft. Hood. I must admit that my first thought upon hearing of this tragic event, which ran parallel to the chill in my bloodstream and the anguish in my ...
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November 3, 2009
- Remember that awful headline back in March of 2008? “S.F. gay community an epicenter for new strain of virulent staph.” It began with a San Francisco Chronicle article by Sabin Russell, which in essence “reported” on a University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) study published in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine related to a MRSA study, which resulted in widespread ...
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September 10, 2009
- Book publishing is famously subjective, and authors who survive learn to have thick skins. But no matter how tanned your literary hide is, when a “no thanks” letter arrives, you’re still a little wounded.Then comes an uncontrollable urge to read between the lines. What did the rejection letter really mean? I’ve heard some whoppers from writers over the years, including vast conspiracy ...
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September 3, 2009
- I'm joining the entire Red Room community in writing a short blog post on this week's topic: "Back to School." We'll choose at least one of these blogs to be featured on Red Room's homepage next week, and we'll choose three blog writers to receive free books from Red Room Authors. Submit your blog entry by Friday at 10:30 a.m. PDT [GMT-0700] for consideration. Be sure to tag the entry ...
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September 3, 2009
- The much-anticipated benefit for the Provincetown Dog Park starring Lily Tomlin was a huge success. All day long, tropical disturbance Danny dumped rain on our little town, but an hour before the event in a huge white tent out on MacMillan Pier, the rains stopped. In the lowering evening light, eight hundred people walked out the pier promenade and found their seats. The air was so still and ...
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August 15, 2009
- Many thanks to Southern Voice editor Laura Douglas-Brown for the article and her thoughts onConquering Venus in the new edition. You can read the interview at this link. It's perfect timing before next Wednesday's reading at Outwrite Books.There's been discussion about who would be cast in the main roles of Conquering Venus if it's ever made into a film. The book is now listed ...
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August 9, 2009
- Since Sotomayer’s appointment to the Supreme Court- which I am very happy about- it has made me think about the little courts that we all hold in our head and heart- especially mine. Since my court is the only one I can really be sole judge and jury- it needs periodic cleaning, to make sure the files are in order. I suppose I shouldn’t be so judgmental. I mean, isn’t that what I get so ...
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July 22, 2009
- It's hard enough to get around the notorious Ein el-Hilweh Refugee Camp in Lebanon at the best of times. I can testify to that, having had a few sweaty-palmed visits to the place myself to interview the hardline Palestinian gunmen who rule the camp. Try doing it after calling on the head of the Aqsa Martyrs Brigades to eschew beards which "don't look good on your King Osama" and while ...
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July 16, 2009
- A Map Through the Mines of My Book 30 04 2009 By Lissa Kiernan @ Arsenic Lobster [two excerpts]: The book’s 60 poems, in savant-like methodical brilliance, are arranged in alpha-order and prefaced by a quote from Virginia Woolf’s cross-dressing, sex-changing Orlando: “Everything, in fact, was something else.” This frames things perfectly, for to ...
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June 23, 2009
- Dedication and acknowledgement pages for Conquering Venus have gone to Vanilla Heart, a final galley is coming in July and then it goes to the press. The book will officially launch at the Decatur Book Festival over Labor Day weekend.
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