kate rothwell

I have a Ned Lamont shirt, a Lamont sticker on my car and a Lamont sign in my yard. I hate it. This part of politics is super-cheesy** . . . Yet I have a strong need to see the backside of Lieberman. But I need more--so I'm wandering around the internet, gathering reasons to vote for the man, not just against someone else. So I'll copy and paste some of quotes from him. That way I can convince my other neighbors to take some of these dang yard signs the local Lamont people dropped off at my house. "War and peace are the most important stakes that your government deals with. The war says so much about what type of a country we are, our moral authority, and our priorities." "Since my days on the urban league to teaching entrepreneurship at an inner city high school, I am committed to maximizing opportunity; we start by reinvesting in our cities- great schools, affordable housing, public transportation- and jobs." Hmmm. Kid needs the computer for homework, so ...

I think this is the best political post of the day.

PBW has been sneaking looks at a lot of writers' WIPs again. shaking fist at PBW, damn you for being so good. ***** I'm going to post over at Unleashed, if only I could think of something to write about. I'm still recovering from PBW.

cleaning up, sort of and I've found these things: An American flag that draped the coffin of a WWI veteran's coffin (in the 1950s). An older friend gave it to me--the vet was her dad. Now what the heck should I do with it? It's too big to fly, and I don't want to burn it. I don't want to sell it on ebay--although maybe I should. She's in her 80s now and could use the income. Anyone want to buy it? A bunch of little girl china that I used as a kid. Much of it slightly chipped, not valuable. I can't bring myself to toss this stuff. No one would want it. Lots of letters from a dead ex-lover. Nothing dreely, nothing Bridges of Madison County , thank God--but the guy wrote great letters. He died young and it's bad enough practically no one else remembers him. Maybe his sisters wants some of them? Icketty paintings I made . And a couple of better ones from my mother, but there's no room to hang them up. Grey, brown, doom. We were definitely ashcan schoo...

favorite headline--"Poll: Americans like instant gratification" (almost as good as "Poverty Creates Depression") favorite actual story--" Doctors In Retirement Community Seeing Increase In STDs" (yeah, yeah, it's not funny for the people who've gotten sick. For us middle agers it's a relief. Not dead yet will be true.) favorite online fiction read--" The Scheherazade Audit" I haven't finished it yet. Fun author's style--so very not romance voice (voted for best use of single word page. See if you can find it) . Naturally I will check out Doug's fiction. (Especially since he and my hussy alter ego have apparently had some kind of tryst. Who knew? Creators are always the last to know.) More later, maybe. I have to put away the groceries that the hunter and gatherer just dragged home, the blessed angel dude.

Megan Frampton wants to know about the nuts. I love Abby Godwin's answer to: You’re writing in the Victorian period; what about it interests you? And have you read any Victorian porn? Everything about the Victorian period interests me. Nothing was as it seemed on the surface; the entire society was based on appearances. You weren't supposed to say, do, or live anything real. Everyone was completely messed up. It's a writer's dream. I have not read Victorian porn but I'll try anything once. Where the hell would I find it? I'm guessing my local library doesn't have any. Now you have me curious. She hasn't read Walter's memoir . The great period slang in there inspired one of my books (that's currently getting rejected everywhere). Now I'll answer the questions assigned to me: If you could acquire any writer’s one skill (Jane Austen’s wit, Henry James’ bombast, William Gibson’s geek-talk), whose would it be? What skill would it be? Depends on t...

2.5 days of dieting and I wonder how people keep this kind of lifestyle up for years and years. If I'm going to obsess about food, I want to ponder questions like: Next time I hit Trader Joe's should I go for dark chocolate or maybe some of that chocolate with bits of orange peel in it? Should I make chicken satay or chicken enchiladas? I do not want to think of food as the enemy. I liked my state of nonrexia, the opposite of anorexic. I've been operating along the lines of a typical male--that is when I think of my bod, I'm about 20 years** out of date. I think hey, I'm curvy. I'm fine. And then when I see myself in the mirror it's "HOLY CRAP, who is that???" My solution has been to not have mirrors. It's not going to work any more because of the high blood pressure and other nonsense. I'm drinking nasty stuff and eating fruit and hoping it'll make me more Aware. It has, I am, and I want to go back to oblivion. whine whine whine. __...