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Natasha — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:46:52 +0000

Full disclosure: All I did was take the pictures this morning. I am making no recommendations about what, if anything, should be done with the Superior Court Judge and his/her position.

Eat Brains Love

Natasha — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 19:19:20 +0000

Oh, I am SO excited to have found this wonderful poster at Merit Badger’s wonderful site! (Click on it to enlarge it in all its gory – I mean glory.)

Especially right after Crystal’s book review.

Especially since Merit Badger is doing a series of merit badges for readers and writers. How great is that?

Check it out. Right now.

And have a nice week-end, everyone.

Jane Austen’s Fight Club

Natasha — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:51:12 +0000

Does this manuscript make my butt look big?

Natasha — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 14:35:43 +0000

A gets extra credit for directing me to this clunker in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal (and on the front page!): Goodbye, Girdle: Curvy Stars Spark A Raid on Padded Panties.

It turns out there’s a market segment willing to shell out big bucks to get big butts.

Seriously?

The article provides TMI about flat-bottomed women desperate to add curves to their bums – some surgically (the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery reports nearly 5,000 butt lifts were performed in the U.S. in 2009 at up to $15,000 a butt) and some via padded panties, available at trendy boutiques as well as at Walgreen’s and Target.

These women are obviously not writers. It is impossible to sit with your computer, yellow pad or Moleskine notebook for hours each day and have this, er, problem.

Yesterday I went to Target, and came out with two summer tops, one on sale for $8.60, one for $10.00, and two bags of their organic blue corn tortilla chips with flaxseeds (the best packaged tortilla chips around, IMHO.) I forgot completely to look for Booty Pops while there, but I now know they are available online in black licorice and caramel nude for $19.95 a pair – plus shipping and handling.

I’ve never been much of a trend-setter, but I am so there with this butt thing. I figure if I put on one of my new halter tops, open the chips and sit at my computer to write and eat for a couple of hours, I’ll continue to be ahead of the curve, so to speak. I can work on maintaining my own personal butt, which I had even before it became trendy – and none of this silly Booty Pop business for me.

Seriously.

Who am I today?

Natasha — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 21:38:17 +0000

I write like
Margaret Atwood

I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!

This was fun. Thanks to the fabulous Merrilee of Creativity Workshop fame for sharing the I Write Like link. Of course, I tried it with three different writing samples and came up with:
J.D. Salinger
Margaret Atwood
Stephen King

Apparently Margaret Atwood herself tried out the analysis after she heard about I Write Like and submitted some of her own writing. And who does Margaret Atwood write like?

::drumroll please::

Stephen King!!

…still some things to work out with the software, I guess….