LoisLane's Metropolis
Today, I'm sitting here thinking to myself, when I gave my mother her nickname: Woman.
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I can't remember when I did it. It was, at least, 10 years ago. Yeah, yeah I know...
It's been a while since I've written about my travel adventures. I couldn't let today go by without giving it a mention. Why? Because today marks a year that I left the US to travel and
live abroad.<br>
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It was my goal to stay gone one year. It was my hope not to return for an indefinite period of time. For those of you who may not know, my journey carried me through the fjords in the land
of the midnight sun in Norway, the ghettos of Paris along with the jardins of the Louvre, the pink sunrises, super yachts and fresh food of Antibes, the walls of ...
Although I live on foreign soil, my heart and mind is back home in the States. Why? Because our impending election will shape not just our future but how the rest of the world views us.
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Whether you realize it or not, you--we are seen as warmonging, imperialists who push our beliefs on smaller nations for profit. They believe this because of how our country is governed. Given that evidence, they would be correct....
Tom Wolfe was the genius who invented it. Of course, he did so to paint a picture of how the 'old boy system' in 1980s New York worked but it was genius nonetheless.<br>
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Don't worry if you haven't read Wolfe's masterpiece, <em>Bonfire of the Vanities</em>, perhaps you've seen the movie, <em>Pay It Forward</em> or read another masterpiece by litery fiction writer,
Paulo Coelho, <em>The Zahir</em>. Wolfe invented The Favour Bank, and Coelho made it a rule to live and love by. <br>
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The idea is simple: do things to help others without expecting things in return. In the 'bank' ideology that is called ...
Ok, ok, ok, here's my take on the Dutch Debate. *yawns*
<br><br>First off, let me tell you I feel compelled to write about last night's Pennsylvania debate because it's technically news, although...
It was on Oprah. That was the first clue I wasn't reading something straight out of the National Enquirer. A line in a short and cryptic email read,
"What must God be thinking."
Well, um, if you believe in God then you are aware He doesn't think. He knows. Thus, whatever it is, He saw it coming. However, I pushed my snarkiness aside for the moment and clicked on the link. What did I find, pray tell? That, yes, indeed, hell has frozen over and women have lost...
I usually don't write long entries, but I am sounding off here, so this entry is longer than any other I have ever written. I understand if you can't sit through it and appreciate it if you do.
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Whew! I barely survived March. Not sure what the planets were up to but they were certainly not in conjunction with my own natal chart. The month started out well enough with the expectation of blooming friendships and my manuscript being read by two separate agents in New York.
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Before the second week was over, however, both friendships screeched to a halt as I realized neither was for me, despite how much I wanted them to be. Around the same time...
Just when you think Al Sharpton is done with missteps he goes and makes a terrific gaffe of epic proportions.
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The latest off-tempo move by Rev. Press-n-Curl involves a yet another rape case. This time, however, instead of being a teenage girl it involved a single mother, her young son and four teenaged boys. The setting is Dunbar Village in West Palm Beach, Florida...
The more I think about it, the more pissed off I get.
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All these pundits and 'intellectuals' get on my fucking, got-damned nerves. They are granted a voice of which they are blessed with the masses' rapt attention and they forever use it do to what, exactly? Spin to play politics and not very well is what they do. This latest hubbub over Rev. Jeremiah Wright's sermons are not taken out of context but they are misunderstood under the veil of the white majority's misplaced righteous indignation...
Much has been made about Barack Obama's ethnicity during his run for the Democratic Nomination, but it wasn’t until Tuesday that the nation realized what his biracial identity can do for healing our nation’s persistent racial wounds.<br><br>In reading many articles analyzing his “A More Perfect Union” speech, where he was likened to Abraham Lincoln, this ABC News article, cites one Shelby Steele, a biracial writer who says Obama is confused about his heritage...
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I sympathize with your quest. Agents are as hard to figure out as editors. And they're no guarantee. I had the best agent in the business representing a novel he loved and still couldn't sell it. If you have readers telling you they love your story, keep the faith. And never change something you don't want to based on one person's opinion. Best wishes to you.
The Copley papers and Freedom Papers chains are also pretty messed up, but in a sort of bumbling, sitcom way. Satan stumbling over his own hooves.
Main thing is, you're back among the human race.