Wed 20 Jul 2011
Posted by PJ under friends, imagination, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:
“I was the kid next door’s imaginary friend.”
—Emo Philips
Disclaimer:Â The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.
Tue 19 Jul 2011
Posted by PJ under fashion, quote of the day, style
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Random quote of the day:
“Fashions fade, style is eternal.”
—Yves Saint Laurent, Andy Warhol’s Interview,  April 13, 1975
Disclaimer:Â The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.
Mon 18 Jul 2011
Posted by PJ under poetry
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Well, okay, his Twitter feed. He and I ain’t acquainted. He called this one of his favorites, if not his favorite, and posted this link to this poem, which I also happen to love quite a lot:
My Papa’s Waltz
By Theodore Roethke
The whiskey on your breath
Could make a small boy dizzy;
But I hung on like death:
Such waltzing was not easy.
We romped until the pans
Slid from the kitchen shelf;
My mother’s countenance
Could not unfrown itself.
The hand that held my wrist
Was battered on one knuckle;
At every step you missed
My right ear scraped a buckle.
You beat time on my head
With a palm caked hard by dirt,
Then waltzed me off to bed
Still clinging to your shirt.
Mon 18 Jul 2011
Posted by PJ under love, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:
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“Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.”
—Jules Renard
Disclaimer:Â The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.
Fri 15 Jul 2011
Posted by PJ under illusion, internet, progress, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:
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“Email gives the illusion of progress even when nothing is happening.”
—Bob Geldof, quoted by David Shipley, NPR interview, 6/20/08
Disclaimer:Â The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.
Thu 14 Jul 2011
Posted by PJ under blood geek, e-publishing, novels, publishing, rewrites, writing
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I’ve taken the week off from writing due to bad attitude. My attitude has improved mightily. I’m still going to take the week off from writing. The Universe has reinforced this decision by sending me a rejection this week on a story that’s been out for months.
‘Course, the message could just as likely be, “Get back to work.” Good thing I don’t believe in Cosmic Messages.
Except, of course, when I do.
Blood Geek was supposed to be a quick and dirty edit because My-God-I’ve-Edited-This-So-Much-Already-What-Could-Be-Wrong? But there’s that old Samuel Johnson quote, “The prospect of hanging concentrates the mind wonderfully.” I’ve found the same to be true when I get close to actually releasing a piece of my writing to the world. I cannot see releasing something that I didn’t do my best job on.
So…I’m going to have to rewrite several chapters of Blood Geek because the voice is just wrong, wrong, wrong, and I’m going to have to rewrite a couple of other chapters from the ground up in order to make the heroine protag instead of thinking about protagging. I just can’t see any other way of getting around that. I’ve tried tinkering with the material that’s there countless times and it just doesn’t work.
I have examined my mind, my heart, my spirit to see if this is just a perfectionist delaying tactic, but I honestly don’t think it is. Whether anyone looks at this book or not, it’s still going to be out there. Why would I want it to be out there if it wasn’t the best book I could make it?
The rest of it reads pretty well to me. Decent escapist fare. So I’m going to take a week off, gird my loins, and get back to the dirty work next week.
Thu 14 Jul 2011
Posted by PJ under happiness, meaning, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:
“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
—Albert Camus, “Intuitions,†from Youthful Writings, ed. Paul Viallaneix, tr. Ellen Conroy Kennedy
(This quote is sometimes misattributed to The Stranger.)
Disclaimer:Â The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.
Wed 13 Jul 2011
Posted by PJ under things I wonder
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Are you ever sitting in a corporate meeting and suddenly feel your life slipping away bite by bite by bite?
Nah, me neither. Just wonderin’.
Wed 13 Jul 2011
Posted by PJ under children, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:
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“People think kids say the darnedest things. So would you if you had no education.”
—Eugene Mirman, Comedy Central Presents
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Tue 12 Jul 2011
Posted by PJ under lies, quote of the day, truth, writers
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Random quote of the day:
“They say that in the end truth will triumph, but it’s a lie.”
—Anton Chekhov, Notebooks
Disclaimer:Â The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.
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