I have been meaning for ages to write here, with a general "here's my life" post. It's hard to sum up two years in a few words!

My life is now much better than it was a year ago, or even a few months ago. First, Tom now has a job. So, for the first time in five(!) years, one of us has full-time employment and a steady income. (Yes, the economy in ( Read more... )

Have you heard the claim that Coca-Cola's secret formula has been revealed? A notebook from the 19th century may have a copy of the original recipe. The main part of the formula is coca leaves (in modern Coke, the coca leaves have their cocaine removed), sugar, citric acid (replaced by phosphoric acid in modern colas) plus caffeine, vanilla, lime ( Read more... )

I've been off LJ for ages, and I suppose I should post an update detailing every event that happened in the past six months or so, but I'm way too tired! So, I'll just jump in with a topic that caught my attention ( Read more... )

I just came across an amazing profile on an online writers' group:
Listen Iam new at written a book and all Iam trying to do is get some help and doing so. If you guys can help please let me know? I already wrote the book I just need some one to edited it for me. Is there is some angency that will do it for free, because Iam broke. please Respone.I ( Read more... )

So, I haven't posted on LJ in months, and now that I'm finally posting, it's about... a cat food commercial!

It's a really good cat food commercial, though. It's for Friskies. It's called 'Adventureland' and it's getting a lot of buzz. It seems inspired by 'Alice in Wonderland' (or more specifically, 'Through the Looking Glass'), although what it ( Read more... )

For those of your not in the US, or who haven't been following the news, there's been a controversy surrounding Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.  A book came out recently which mentioned that, in 2006, Reid described Barack Obama as "a light-skinned African-American 'with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.'"  This has led to calls ( ( Read more... )

I received a virtual gift -- a snowflake cookie -- from an anonymous sender! Thank you!

Well, I just finally finished the book proposal for my Michael Jackson biography -- you know, the proposal that I've been working on since July or so. (I actually have done a fair amount of other work on the book, too, although it sometimes seemed like the proposal was taking up all of my time.)

( More about my book proposal )

Well, I've been off LJ for about 10 days. But, it wasn't because I was shirking my writing duties! I took a trip to San Diego, where I had an excellent dinner and chat with marinarusalka and also met her kitties ( Read more... )

Well, I've written 965 words in the past two days.  Not a huge amount, but then, I'm doing editing and research as well. So, I'm reasonably pleased.

I've also come across an amusing website, Write or Die. Basically, this website has a program that "encourages" you to keep writing.  You tell it how much you want to write, and how fast you want to ( Read more... )