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Screenwriting 101
I just wasted two hours of my life watching a horror movie on tv.
While I liked part of the premise, a teen girl who foresees disastrous fatal accidents just before they happen, this movie was one of the worst I've ever seen. M and I kept debating whether or not to turn it off, but we persisted because we wanted to see what happened.
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Art Deco on the Lake
Last night we went to a spectacular wedding reception at a
restored art deco masterpiece
on Lake Ontario.
The Palais Royale used to be the place to take your Saturday night date for a night of jitterbugging and dancing to jazz bands in the 30s and 40s. My mother used to complain that my father never took her there. (They dated in the 40s.) I suspect ( Read more... ) -
Princess For Hire - review (and the danger of genre generalizations)
When I first met M, he accused me of "dealing with everything by exception." I admitted that I strongly disliked "sweeping generalizations."
Over the years, we have almost switched places. I'm more of a Generalist; he's more of a Specialist. I have come to see that sometimes you can make a statement of an opinion without immediately noting all the ( Read more... ) -
A note to the weather
Dear Snow,
Please note that today is April 17,
four weeks past the vernal equinox.
Winter is long gone,
so get lost, you flakey thing.
Go to the southern hemisphere where you belong.
Don't look for me.
I'll be out buying flower pots and patio furniture.
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Ode to Elmer
I've been clearing out my old files and found this early poem, which I wrote after leaving a job in the seventies.
Ode to Elmer
by Barbara Etlin
O Elmer
elegant Edsel of typewriters
how I miss your
creative word coinage
your mysterious and elusive
case ofhic c ough s wh ich would
disappear when the doctor came
and r eapp ea r af te r he'd left
what joyous ( Read more... )
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