September 30, 2006

Overheard

"I've signed up with Match.com."

"Why not J-Date?"

"Have you met either one of my sisters?"

"You know I have—oh, wait. Okay."

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September 29, 2006

Oh, What the Heck.

Life's short.

Nigger.

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September 28, 2006

My Mother Calls.

She wants to give me moral support. I tell her I'm getting some questionable advice at my less-premium writer's group, but it's about an issue I don't really intend to fully address until I'm at the second-draft stage, anyway.

"Well, ask your good writer's group about it."

"It's okay. I'm not worried about it."

"You are too, or you wouldn't have brought it up. Go talk to your other group about it, and see if they think it's a problem. Maybe you should fix it now."

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The Malkin-Esmay Debate

What Eric said.

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Every Time I'm Tempted to Give Up

I write another chapter or scene that charms the hell out of me, and I think, "I don't give a shit if no one else likes it. I'm keeping myself amused. It's good stuff."

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September 27, 2006

James Joyner

. . . reproduces the declassified portions of the NIE, and remarks, "we're actually paying people to come up with this?"

Sad, but true.

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Mine Your Own Business

This looks like a pretty interesting examination of the dysfunctional relationship between the world's poor and the environmental extremists who appear to want them as human exhibits in a sort of global zoo.

"Poverty," the film proclaims, "is not charming."

Fuckin' A.

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September 26, 2006

Iraq As a Terrorist Training Tool

Karl has started an interesting discussion over at Protein Wisdom.

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Protests in Budapest

. . . continue.

These people have to fix their Constitution so they can oust a PM by initiative. In the meantime, we'll know how angry the people still are after the election on Sunday.

Attila the Hub is seeing his Hungarian friend this week, so we may get the inside story from his relatives in-country.

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Why AQ Is Off the Air

Via Insty comes this news from Strategy Page: people are flying less, because procedures for air travel are so arbitrary. But terrorists are only targeting airplanes less because they fear mutiny—the "Flight 93 Syndrome."

I have to admit that I'm a bit tired of airlines taking advantage of 9/11. For example, why not let us transfer air tickets from one person to another after they've been bought? If everyone has ID, how can this possibly be a risk?

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September 25, 2006

Still Depressed.

Or perhaps unhappy. I think I'm a bit low on estrogen right now.

Also, I'm drinking diet fucking tonic water with a wedge of lime: no sugar, no alcohol, no caffeine. No fucking good, really.

I need to produce a chapter a day for the next two days, and that would be okay if I didn't also have other work to do alongside it all. The beauty of it all?—deep down, I know I have the bitchinest life. I mean, geez: I'm within 100 pages of finishing the draft for my murder mystery. How cool is that?

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Sunday Afternoon at the Reading Party

The instructor of my Thursday group had one of her semi-annual soirees yesterday, and I read something aloud that I hadn't edited as thoroughly as I might have.

So I felt and silly and oddly exposed; and it took me a while to get past that.


It shocks me when I get shy. Sometimes my moxie departs rather suddenly, and I'm left wondering whether my shy self is more authentic, or whether it's the extraverted version that's the "real me."

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September 20, 2006

UFC

I believe Attila the Hub finds it slightly indecent that I love to tell my parents about how we watch UFC fights on pay-per-view.

My father always asks if this is professional wrestling. "No," I tell him. "This isn't the guys in the pink tights."

My mother simply looks at me as if I'd suggested we roast up a plump rat for supper.

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Hungarian Nights

In Budapest they work by day, and protest by night. It seems that the Hungarian PM is determined to stay on. So far.

Pray that the innocent will be protected, and that Hungary will find a way to refine its economy into something that actually, um, works.

I know the Hungarians want to join the EU, and they have to improve their credit rating to do so. The people have been lied to, and it's not okay.

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Bitter Late . . .

I didn't make it over to On Tap for their 9/11 anniversary discussion. I should have. It's a nice, intro-level "why I'm a warmonger" piece.

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September 19, 2006

Memo to Christians, Jews, the Vatican, and the West:

Stop fucking apologizing!

Anne Applebaum was more polite about it.

As was Glenn.

But I'll leave manners to those who possess them.

"If you accuse us of being violent, we will kill you." Say what? Piss off.

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Live in Budapest

There are riots in Hungary, and there's talk of a second revolution, to get rid of the last remnants of the Communist regime for good. I don't really blame the Hungarians: how would you react to news like this?

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September 18, 2006

Rum, Sodomy and the Lash in the Land of the Mullahs

Via Insty, Austin Bay discusses the possibility that Iran already has nuclear weapons, and concludes that it's damned unlikely; he points out that there are other reasons the U.S. appears so oddly passive right now.

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Australia:

An island of sanity.

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"Did You Meet Your Mother's New Dog?" Attila the Hub Asks.

"Yes, I did. What a sweet puppy."

"What breed is she?"

"Breed? Ah, yes. Well, we think she's a mix—maybe with some Labrador."

He looks at me, hard. "Rottweiler, Doberman, or Pit Bull?"

I sigh. "Pit Bull. But a really cute, good-natured one."

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