Authonomy is Harper Collins’s online community where “writers become authors”. So it’s pretty disappointing that Wednesday’s One to Watch selected by the authonomy administrator is Ramadan Sky by Victoria Hunter. I read it and wept. The main character is supposed to be an Indonesian man looking back to when he was a twelve year old. It’s [...]
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Remember the old ad from the 1870s for a shampoo and conditioner rolled into one where they played on the supposed social stigma of taking two bottles into the shower? Oh my, it was so embarrassing to be so out of step with the world taking two bottles into the shower! How ghastly. Flay yourselves, [...]
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The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 1,200 times in 2011. If it were a cable car, it would take about 20 trips to carry that many people. Click here to see the [...]
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