Flu shots--amen! I hate getting injections but I'm always first in line for a flu shot. I used to get the flu every winter, and every time was worse than the last. I started getting flu shots three years ago and haven't had the flu since. What a relief.
Hay, guise, WTFOMGBBQZZTOP! Don't do that any more, OK? I mean, I wish you hadn't done it the first time but since you already did, stop now, OK?
Thinking good thoughts for you, and at you.
Actually, as any 23-year-old editorial assistant could have told
the New York Times, hardcover authors typically earn royalties of 15
percent of the list price of sold copies. Profits have nothing to do
with it; the authors get the royalties whether or not the publisher
made any profit at all. The claim that “many authors never earn
royalties†is likewise a bit off; the author’s “advance†is in fact an
advance payment of the royalties that the publisher expects the book
will earn, usually in its first year of publication.
Which I guess makes me a very atypical author, as I have never
received any royalties on any of my books, ever. There. I admitted it
in public.
I miss him a lot already. He was one of my favourite people. I am at a loss for words.
Every so often here in London, someone gets up on a tube or a bus and begins to declaim loudly. But it's not poetry, it's usually a rant about Jesus. Although there was this one old East European lady who treated us all to a lecture on proper marital behaviour, explaining that it would be necessary to kill the woman her husband was unfaithful with. She was pretty entertaining. But other than that, well--this makes me wonder if someone in Minneapolis-St. Paul is making an effort to wipe out all the poets in the area via mob action.
Belatedly commenting on "only in America."
Strangely, while I was dancing through London with a 40-foot elephant and several thousand people, the thought popped into my head: "Only in London."
And then I thought, "Well, that's patently not true--the elephant's from France!"
And then I thought, "Only in France? That's not true, either, seeing as how the elephant is here at the moment."
And then I thought, "What the hell. This whole experience is ineffable and I'm only human."
In order for The Sultan's Elephant to come to the US, you'd need an art group as devoted as the people at Artichoke. Not to mention people who could raise the funds. This event is free.
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