Jim: nope, I remember it being a post, not a comment.
Question: A decent while back, Teresa had a post comparing the Bush administration to a bust out con. I've been looking for the original post and have been coming up empty. Any ideas?
"can anyone think of a good reason why Sarah Palin wouldn't tell reporters who she voted for?"
Of course. She doesn't want to go on record as saying she voted for a convicted felon for Senate, and she can't say she didn't vote for the Republican candidate.
He's leaving to spend more time with his families. And let's face it, he probably needs more time than most.
Avram @ 43: Crazy alternate ligatures of Lubalin Graph? Here.
Did the modify it a bit? Sure. But it's Lubalin either way.
(type neep! type neep!)
That "slab-serif Avant-Garde" font is actually called Lubalin. Named after Herb Lubalin, who designed both typefaces.
#14 & #15: Or if Charlie was actually a science fiction writer of America, it wouldn't get lost in international mail.
OTOH, there are lots of Americans in SFWA who aren't science fiction
writers, so we need Charlie to balance things out. I'd much rather have
writers than Americans in SFWA.
It's not an issue of being paid on time per se. Because royalties
are calculated up to 6 months after the given sale of a particular
book, plus the extra time for books to actually sell, and then there's
the amount held back as a reserve against returns from the publisher,
and then there are the special sales that are at a lower royalty rate,
and on and on and on... and that's assuming a complete sell through, of
course. It's probably closer numbers than you think, and certainly
easier to audit copies printed than copies sold.
With all the hub-bub on this topic, I'm surprised no one's brought
up agent Richard Curtis's alternate plan: half the standard royalty
rate, but payable on copies printed at the time of printing rather than
X months/years later, at the price printed on the book.
Cash in hand, on a semi-predictable timetable, and simplified accounting.
Had no idea whether to put this in the comics threads or the Ron Paul thread, but:
Ron Paul's favorite superhero.
Certainly a choice I wouldn't expect from any of the other candidates.
Marilee: you did? I missed it. Bless you.
Well, I have to put on my comic publisher hat and point out all the good stuff we've got going on at ComicMix-- all free, and not a superhero in the bunch:
GrimJack by John Ostrander and Tim Truman: a hard-boiled barbarian in an interdimensional city.
Jon Sable Freelance by Mike Grell: a gun for hire in the African jungle or the urban jungle.
EZ Street by Robert Tinnell and Mark Wheatley: Think The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay meets Wonder Boys.
The Adventures of Simone and Ajax by Andrew Pepoy: A female firecracker and her friend, a four foot tall talking dinosaur.
Munden's Bar: A place where anything can happen and usually does.
Fishhead by Michael T. Price and Mark Evan Walker, based on the Irwin Cobb short story-- for those of you who like southern-fried pulp horror.
And starting on Monday, a new series from Robert Tinnell and Bo Hampton entitled Demons of Sherwood.
End of soft sell, true believers. Heck, I didn't even go link happy-- I didn't even put a link in to Sable, and I'm coloring that one.
#91: Howard (#88), IIRC, Lester Maddox Ford wrote occasionally under the name Ford Milo Chevrolet.
And would not a Ford by any other name get as much mileage?
#221: Not all Hollywood autobios are bull, but anybody who states in them that they were high on various drugs for long periods of time-- well, I tend to believe that, and I take all their recollections at the time as unreliable.
Sid Ceasar's autobiography.
Reports from ComScore Media Metrix. Some reports from Find/SVP.
The Illuminatus Trilogy. Including almost everything cited within it, as they were also written or edited by Shea and Wilson.
And anything from John Fund.
I quote liberally from http://www.pogopossum.com/faq.htm:
There are many versions of this revered, classic carol and fist fights have been known to erupt when one person defends the sanctity and accuracy of the one he or she learned at Mommy's knee. People have been hospitalized as a result of such disputes, which is a heckuva thing to happen at any time of year, and especially around the holidays. That said, we can at least direct you to what scholars tell us is the most popular. Here it is...but we assume no responsibility if a rival Boston Charlie caroller takes issue with you and comes out swinging.
http://www.pogopossum.com/deckus.htm
Deck us all with Boston Charlie, Walla Walla, Wash, and Kalamazoo!
Nora's freezin' on the trolley, Swaller dollar cauliflower Alleygaroo!
Don't we know archaic barrel, Lullaby Lilla Boy, Louisville Lou.
Trolley Molly don't love Harold, Boola Boola Pensacoola Hullabaloo!
There are more. Go look. Golly, Solly's cold and so's ol' Lou...
This is all summed up by Ehrman's Commentary:
1. Things will get worse before they get better.
2. Who said things would get better?
Mid-teenagers in recent memory who've had books published
The company that Teresa used to work for was founded by a person who started writing professionally at the age of 13. And he kept on doing so for decades, producing numerous bestsellers and becoming quite well known in the industry-- he is, in fact, one of the few people I look up to.
Of course, that's because he's one of the few people in the world taller than me...
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