Please hold my hand.  An agent from a serious powerhouse agency has asked for the entire manuscript.  I have just sent it. 

Text message from Karen Meisner: "why is Obama letting it snow?"

incredibly hard, and then let's roll up our sleeves and fix this place up.

...Even though I'm listening to his acceptance speech.

Here's a cool interactive map with all the results (so far), for all the newsmonkeys who don't already know about it:

elections.nytimes.com/2008/results/president/map.html

So, the night before before the first Clinton election, I had a dream in which I was on a yacht, and after some strange dream-convolutions, I ended up, well, having sex with the Democratic candidate.  It was just a dream, OK?  And I was young and foolish.  My apologies to Senator Clinton.  But the next day the fellow won.  I drew the obvious ( Read more... )

Just got back from voting a few minutes ago. It was a lovely day for it, and our precinct (if that's the word I want) was operating like a well-oiled machine. If I weren't recovering (I hope) from a nasty bout of what was probably the flu, I would have gone out and joined the hordes helping out, like the election official squatting on the ground in ( Read more... )

...and says, "I trusted you eight years ago, [Senator McCain], but I don't now. I might have voted for you eight years ago, but not now."

I agree; I'm concerned that he has compromised too many of his beliefs.

When I said that I didn't want to listen to someone who sounds so much like President Bush on the radio for four years, I did not mean to imply that Senator McCain would make the same embarassingly stupid remarks. He will make some new ones of his own.

But I do rather think he's cleverer than the sitting president.

Good heavens. I must respectfully endorse Senator Obama. I don't think I could stand the smug bullying, the rudeness, and the outright lies of the opposing candidate. Which is not to say that I think that Senator Obama isn't as smooth as President Clinton, because I think he's at least as cunning ( Read more... )