Well, okay!!
Howdy, gang. Long time, no hear (from me, anyway).
Yes, we have snow, we have ice; we have wet, cold, chilly, drizzling/sleeting stuff. And my car is totally misbehaving. Last night, as I was scraping ice and snow off it while the engine was heating up, a friend said, "Wow, Marilyn, your car sounds like it's dying."
And I said, "Yeah. Do you think maybe I need to have someone take a look at it?"
He chuckled and said, "Yeah. I think maybe you need to have someone take a look at it."
Ah well. Property taxes, water bill, humongous heating bill this month, car dying... Sometimes ya gotta just look heavenward, shrug your shoulders, sigh, say "Oh well", hope for the best and keep on keeping on, gang. January is a tough month. But at least I am hard at work on a new short story that I am liking, entitled "The Epicures." Probably my last erotic short story, just FYI, gang. I have too many novels & other writing projects to tackle now, that short stories are no longer viable, time-wise. But 20 years worth of short stories should probably be sufficient for anyone's career -- outside of F. Scott Fitzgerald, that is. So I am enjoying the process of writing the final short story, then it will be back to the novel, which should be truly, finally, completely done in the next 90 days.
Meanwhile, I am falling "truly, madly, deeply," as they say. I will keep you posted on that cryptic front as time goes on.
In urgent movie star news:
Johnny Depp (yes, of PEZ Dispenser fame [see below]!) is doing a guest voice appearance on a new episode of my favorite cartoon, SpongeBob SquarePants. Life is too beautiful for words, my friends! I can not wait to see it. That show so totally cracks me up.
And John Cusack, another favorite "John" of mine for entirely different reasons, wrote a very impassioned blog post at the Huffington Post yesterday about the Bush Administration's involvement in war crimes and what Congress needs to do about it. (Yes, I know, I already forfeited my right to vote once with my opinions on the war crimes issue, but oh well. On we go.) He says, in part:
"Two questions we should demand congress ask of Eric Holder before confirming him. The same two questions Mukasey refused to answer.
Yes, we have snow, we have ice; we have wet, cold, chilly, drizzling/sleeting stuff. And my car is totally misbehaving. Last night, as I was scraping ice and snow off it while the engine was heating up, a friend said, "Wow, Marilyn, your car sounds like it's dying."
And I said, "Yeah. Do you think maybe I need to have someone take a look at it?"
He chuckled and said, "Yeah. I think maybe you need to have someone take a look at it."
Ah well. Property taxes, water bill, humongous heating bill this month, car dying... Sometimes ya gotta just look heavenward, shrug your shoulders, sigh, say "Oh well", hope for the best and keep on keeping on, gang. January is a tough month. But at least I am hard at work on a new short story that I am liking, entitled "The Epicures." Probably my last erotic short story, just FYI, gang. I have too many novels & other writing projects to tackle now, that short stories are no longer viable, time-wise. But 20 years worth of short stories should probably be sufficient for anyone's career -- outside of F. Scott Fitzgerald, that is. So I am enjoying the process of writing the final short story, then it will be back to the novel, which should be truly, finally, completely done in the next 90 days.
Meanwhile, I am falling "truly, madly, deeply," as they say. I will keep you posted on that cryptic front as time goes on.
In urgent movie star news:
Johnny Depp (yes, of PEZ Dispenser fame [see below]!) is doing a guest voice appearance on a new episode of my favorite cartoon, SpongeBob SquarePants. Life is too beautiful for words, my friends! I can not wait to see it. That show so totally cracks me up.
And John Cusack, another favorite "John" of mine for entirely different reasons, wrote a very impassioned blog post at the Huffington Post yesterday about the Bush Administration's involvement in war crimes and what Congress needs to do about it. (Yes, I know, I already forfeited my right to vote once with my opinions on the war crimes issue, but oh well. On we go.) He says, in part:
"Two questions we should demand congress ask of Eric Holder before confirming him. The same two questions Mukasey refused to answer.
1. Is waterboarding torture?
We all know, and every legal opinion outside of Alberto Gonzales knows this to be the case.
Waterboarding is torture and torture is a war crime.
2. Since we know the Bush administration at the highest levels approved waterboarding which is torture which is a war crime, will you appoint a special prosecutor and fulfill your duty to see that justice and the rule of law apply to all Americans? Can you assure us neither circumstance nor convenience nor competing interests be allowed to suppress our fundamental principals -- one being that rule of law applies to members of our own government?
We don't need a commission to tell us what we already know, and what happened is a matter of record.
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