Maybe nobody else is this easily amused. Forget the headline on this article. Read down a bit. “Other new cast members include Miranda Richardson as a newspaper gossip columnist…” Coooooool. She was in a lot of the Hallmark specials that covered classic fantasy and heroic novels. The one I’m thinking of is Alice in Wonderland.

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Writerly thoughts. I’m reading another John R Gardner book on writing, On Becoming a Novelist. The other book, I forget the name off-hand, but the one culled from his writing class notes, is much more tolerant and understanding. This one, he’s right, you know he’s right, but he’s a cantankerous old writing teacher that’s had

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Wander, wander, wander. Lee and I went dropped off the bebe and went wandering today. At one point, we wandered through a natural foods market (“I miss going to grocery stores where you dance in the aisles,” he said. “They have pretty good music here,” I said. I didn’t notice I was bouncing around until

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More Words. CRUCIVERBALIST A compiler or solver of crossword puzzles. If you encounter the clue “crossword puzzle fan (14 letters)”, this is the answer. It seems to have appeared in English about 1980 (the first reference I can find is to the Compleat Cruciverbalist of 1981 by Stan Kurzban and Mel Rosen, subtitled “how to

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Words, via Mike. World Wide Words. The Word Detective (has an interesting book for sale called Making Whoopee: Words of Love for Lovers of Words). Miskatonic University Press (a complete section on Hardboiled Slang, and the Lester Dent Pulp Paper Master Fiction Plot ).

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Whee! I took Ray to her first carnival last night. She rode the elephant ride all by herself, and she was twenty feet off the ground. Of course we rode the carosel. She ran full-tilt into one of the mirrors in the funhouse maze. We rode on the Ferris Wheel. I think this is the

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