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Saturday, April 17, 2010
Saturday, March 20, 2010
Blindingly Stupid Emails
Our mail cat is so pissed at the last 3 days of jerks:
- David Mulholland again tells us he has redesigned our site
- "published writer" offers free error-filled articles on writing
- other published writer asks for free commercial advertising
- another writer sends an attached "supliment" for display
- Mary Grace S. Verlade sends 2X "auto loan invitation"
- Eveline Hamson's: DONACIZ PARA EL TRABAJO DEL DIOS
- "BESPOKE WEBMASTER" invites us to join his/her BEBO
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Adopt a Cat Here
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More Caturday!
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Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Emptying the Email Trash
Last week someone said he had found my website through an image search for "California Spangled Cats." He wanted me to hire him to optimize my site for better image search returns, because mine was 22nd in the list. Like, I care? Anyway, it's "California Dreamcats," the first one I did for a class in site design, and I don't think it's on the web. Now, that's creepy.
Another persisted (until I blocked the address) in telling me that my writing site can't be found in foreign search engines. Why should I be concerned when it is only for English-speaking people, or those who want to learn and search on English terms.
Other hilarious favorites are the vendors who tell me that they have redesigned my websites, and I can see the improvements by clicking on a link. They fail to notice that I design and optimize sites. Often they fail to discover my name, too.
But the all-time best is the guy who sent me the same message three times in an 18-month period, offering free articles. Now, I like to feature guest posts, and some of the free articles on this site are by other writers who I know. But this guy signed his emails with three different female names and directed me to the same two websites where the articles appeared. Only, he kept mixing up the signature names and the by-line names. I'm not sure he knew who he was. A little research discovered his true gender and name.
I'm also a little sad because yesterday I turned down two book manuscript editing jobs. Ironically, one was too well-written. I told the author that most of the changes I might make, I thought amounted to quibbles. The other manuscript looked like a brain dump with little punctuation or capitalization and no quotation marks. I told the author that either it is a new form of a novel, or the manuscript needs to be rewritten, which is a very costly effort.
Sometimes I wonder if I'm being tested.
Labels: promotion, silly, writers
Listen to this articleSaturday, February 06, 2010
What a Picture is Worth
The same could be said of lemons (except for the price):
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Listen to this articleSaturday, January 23, 2010
Editorial Assistants
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Saturday, January 16, 2010
See Bad Grammar, Bad Editor
YouTube - Bad Grammar - The Way I Are Parody ft. HotforWords
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Letters to the Editor
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Today is a Palindrome
"Madam I'm Adam" as Adam's introduction to Eve in the Garden of Eden. To see the palindrome, smush the letters all together in lower case: madamimadam. It is also said that the shortest poem is:
Fleas
Adam had 'em.
palindrome a double stranded DNA sequence in which the sequence of one strand in the 5´ to 3´ direction is the same as the sequence of the (oppositely orientated) complementary strand in the 5´ to 3´ direction.Snore...
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Saturday, December 12, 2009
"Twilight" by Cats
Microsuede: Movie Review: The Twilight Saga: New Moon
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Listen to this articleSaturday, December 05, 2009
Blue Pyramid Book Quiz II

You're Much Ado About Nothing!You're not really sure what all the fuss is about, but it seems like it's all a lot of overreaction. Light and playful, you tend to be the one making dirty jokes in the corner, or even in front of a whole bunch of people. You end up being more or less unable to keep a straight face, even when something serious seems to be on the line. Despite this, you still have something to say about gender equality. In the end, you're just looking for a hero.
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Listen to this articleSaturday, November 21, 2009
Use An Apostrophe

How To Use An Apostrophe - The Oatmeal
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Listen to this articleSaturday, November 14, 2009
Downfall of Grammar
YouTube - Downfall of Grammar
Don't worry if you don't speak German; they added subtitles in English.
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Listen to this articleThursday, October 29, 2009
National Cat Day
(LOL) Thursday, October 29 iz National Kitteh Day! We know that everyday is Caturday, but on National Cat Day we git to show our kittehs sum extra speshul lurv and give them the much deserved attention they demand.
To celebrate National Cat Day, we’re running a Treat Your Cat Like Royalty Contest. Send us a picture of you celebrating your king or queen kitteh on National Cat Day and we’ll pick the most awesum winner to receive an autographed copy (by Cheezburger) of ICHC’s new book How To Take Over Teh Wurld: A LOLCat Guide 2 Winning.
Email your picture to icanhascheezburger+nationalcatday@gmail.com by Friday, October 30, 5pm PT and we’ll post up the winner on Monday, November 2.
Happy National Cat Day to all of the kittehs around the world!
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Listen to this articleSaturday, October 24, 2009
Ima Emma
Just to show you how inaccurate these funny little quizzes are: I can't recall ever reading any Jane Austen book. I hear you all gasping, I know, but 'struth! Bad enough we had to read that Heathcliff thing in high school. Oh, wait! That isn't an Austen book, is it?Labels: silly
Listen to this articleSaturday, October 17, 2009
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Monday, October 05, 2009
Top 10 for Freelancing
Number 3:
Because for freelancers casual fridays [sic] means working in your underpants
If you follow me on Twitter, you may recall "Pantsless Freelancing Day" or was it "Put on your Pants Day"? Either way, the author of the FreelanceSwitch article, Jack Knight, has a keen sense of humor. Thanks for the reminders, Jack, why some of us do it our way!
What is it about freelancing that makes you the happiest? Listen to this article
Saturday, September 12, 2009
F-ing Lost
Going off at half-cock: The Daily Express's Ant and Dec headline,caught between editions.
The Daily Express had a prime example over the weekend of what can happen when you fiddle around with a headline.
Via Media Monkey.
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Listen to this articleSaturday, September 05, 2009
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Take Over Teh Wurld
I Can Has Cheezburger’s new lolbook, How To Take Over Teh Wurld: A LOLcat Guide 2 Winning, will be coming out on September 1! You can pre-order ur copy today at:
Added Bonus: When you pre-order How To Take Over Teh Wurld, email your receipt to tehwurld@gmail.com, to receive a limited edition I Can Has Cheezburger desktop iconz (win and mac) for free!
It is on my Personal Wish List at Amazon. Hint: October is a big month for me!
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Listen to this articleSaturday, August 08, 2009
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Engineers' Cat Guide
Thanks to Word Thief: Study Finds Cats Control Humans.
And don't miss the even longer Cat Yodeling video. Stick with it to the fantastic finale!
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Listen to this articleMonday, July 27, 2009
MusicLOL in NYC

According to today's feed from "I Can Has Cheezburger":
Two Cheez Frends, Katherine and Kristyn, have written an original musical called I Can Has Cheezburger: The MusicLOL! which is based on I Can Has Cheezburger.If you are in the New York area, the musical will be part of the New York International Fringe Festival and will be performed on August 14, August 15, August 18, August 26, and August 28 at the Cherry Lane Theater. Click here for more information about I Can Has Cheezburger: The MusicLOL! and to purchase tickets for the musical!
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Listen to this articleSaturday, July 25, 2009
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Golden Marmot Award
Hot naked editing–join those split infinitives! Slash those adverbs! Add those articles (everyone writes like tweets now!) #copy_editors
And it won

"Golden Marmot Award winners on Twitter are cheeky, wise, witty or profound (sometimes all at the same time), always in 140 characters or less," says sage Debbie Ohi, the original Inky Girl. Listen to this article
Saturday, July 18, 2009
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Thursday, July 09, 2009
Put on Your Pants Day
I cribbed this one from KOKEdit's tweet. Couldn't resist posting it here to give my compadres an early warning. Vis a vis my comment, I'm rummaging around in my drawers to find the ones marked "Friday."
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Listen to this articleSaturday, July 04, 2009
Saturday, June 27, 2009
Writers Eat Absinthe Now
Absinthe MintsAbsinthe is a strong, herb-infused, alcoholic beverage that was extremely popular with artists and authors in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Due to its green color and purported hallucinogenic qualities, it is often referred to as “The Green Fairy.”
Available from the inimitable Archie McPhee website.

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Listen to this articleFriday, June 26, 2009
Writer Resource Roundup
Have a book for sale on Amazon.com? Are you participating in whatever they call their authors' blogs--a good marketing move. Another, more hidden, bonus is the Amazon Vine™ Program, which "enables a select group of Amazon customers to post opinions about new and pre-release items to help their fellow customers make educated purchase decisions. Customers are invited to become Amazon Vine™ Voices based on the trust they have earned in the Amazon community for writing accurate and insightful reviews."
Who doesn't need more pictures to choose from? Shareapic - The pic sharing site that gives back! is a newer resource. I intend to join because of the front page tease (ignoring all the exclamation points):
We pay $0.22 per 1000 pic views.. that's more than some major ad networks pay their publishers!Now, it's back to the cat race.
- We allow you to add your Bidvertiser © code to your image and gallery pages.
- We pay out within 30 days!
- One click posting to Facebook, Myspace, Blogger, Orkut, and more!
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Postmodernism
The Postmodernism Generator
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Listen to this articleMonday, June 01, 2009
Happy Birthday to AWE
A Writer's Edge isFive Years Old Today!
Best Wishes for Friends,
Fans, Followers,
RSS and Email Receivers,
and all Visitors!
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Listen to this articleBing ... Binging?
If "bing" is verbed-up, how shall we spell it? Where is an editor when you need one?
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Listen to this articleSaturday, May 30, 2009
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Huffpo Wants You to Pay
After promoting Writers Worth Day yesterday, I couldn't resist a sadly amusing follow-up about the rich blogger wannabee who has bid $13,000 for an internship at the Huffington Post. I'm not kidding! The digipub, according to Nat Ives at the Silicon Alley:
features tons of content generated free by bloggers and celebrities just happy to have a platform. HuffPo did recently start a fund to employ some laid-off investigative reporters, but the company thrives primarily on "citizen" journalism and news that other outlets spend money reporting.In a cogent comment at Bloggasm, Simon Owens opined:
I know that this is for a charity and so I’m perhaps being too cynical, but given that Huffington Post has raised over $25 million in seed money so that it can continue to profit off the work of thousands of unpaid “citizen journalists,” you would think they could afford to just write a check for the damn $13,000.Interested in paying to be a writer? You have until May 28, 2009 at 1:16:00 PM EDT to place your bid. If you do -- SUX 2 B U!
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Listen to this articleSaturday, May 09, 2009
Readers Experience
Unshelved is a daily comic strip about a library. At http://www.unshelved.com you can read the complete archive, buy stuff, or get Unshelved every day for free by Email, RSS feed, and LiveJournal. This is for my book club, which just read a Bryson book, and now we all feel like we've trekked Australia.
Saturday, May 02, 2009
Saturday, April 25, 2009
Props to the Editor
"And editors are there to kick writers in the butt when they try to coast." Stephanie Zvan

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Listen to this articleSaturday, April 18, 2009
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Writing Joke for Spring

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Creative License to Kill Time
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Famous Author
Unto the Breach!
Posted on 2007-07-13
Copyright © 2006 Your name here.
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Happy Birthday, Cali
Know what happened this week back in 1850, 158 years ago?
California became a state.
The State had no electricity.
The State had no money.
Almost everyone spoke Spanish.
There were gunfights in the streets.
So basically, it was just like California today; except back then, women had real breasts and the men didn't hold hands.
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Listen to this articleSaturday, January 31, 2009
View on Writer's Block

Cartoon by Dave Walker. Find more cartoons you can freely re-use on your blog at We Blog Cartoons.
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Listen to this articleSaturday, January 17, 2009
What to Write About

Cartoon by Dave Walker. Find more cartoons you can freely re-use on your blog at We Blog Cartoons.
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