I feel like a kid again, that's how full of angst I am.

[irishnutt]

Anybody else think this whole Miss California nonsense is just a way for the Miss America pageant to trick people into caring about their ridiculous, antiquated dog show? Shame on the news networks for reporting on this idiotic charade as if it were, you know, news. Don't sweat it, CNN, the bloggers can handle this one. Maybe you could go back to

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[fenrah]

Ah, but she has introduced a priceless new term into the Republican lexicon of priceless terms. "We live in a land that you can choose same-sex marriage or opposite marriage." Opposite marriage. Let us ponder that.

I'm surprised she didn't stand up for a sincerely held, deeply personal belief that the races should not mingle.

[fenrah]

Off topic, it's sort of fitting that something odd and poetry-related happened to me this month. The story I sold to The Greatest Uncommon Denominator a while back finally appeared yesterday, when they released issue #4. Yay! They paid me $35 at publication, plus ongoing royalties for a 1300 word story and (pitiful as it may sound) this is the most I've ever been paid for fiction. I am quite jazzed about this and was even more pleased to see artwork by Ursula Vernon in the issue. I read her blog, her comic, and follow her art online, and I had no idea she would show up in something where I was published. *fangirl moment

[irishnutt]

That's hilarious. I would tell them anyway; they ought to understand that you couldn't even know what was going to be published with your story when you agreed to have it included.

Getting paid for your writing feels good, doesn't it? Even if it's just a token payment. The most I've been paid for poetry is $30.

[fenrah]

OK, changed my mind. :) These people are too nice not to give them all the publicity I can.