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Posted by Justine at 16:45, July 31st, 2008 under Fans & readers, How To Ditch Your Fairy, Praising, Reading, Young Adult literature |
Posted by Justine at 19:27, July 30th, 2008 under Ranting, Reading |
Scott and me has run away to finish our novels at an undisclosed location. Posting from behind the walls of our hidden bunker may be intermittent and on the shortish side. Book must be finished on the soonish.
In the meantime, it is
conclusive, "monster" and "white-ant" are verbs only in Australia. For confused non-Australians a white ant is a termite. Thus to white-ant someone is to undermine them: to bore away at their foundations, you know, like termites do. Is most useful verb.
Thanks for the Cadel Evans commiserations. Second two years running. Surely next year.
Yes, I is stoked that the Liberty are in the second place in the Eastern conference. Here's hoping we come out after the Olympics break ...
Posted by Justine at 0:00, July 29th, 2008 under Basketball, Bloggery, Liar, Sport, Tour de France, Travelling |
Posted by Justine at 20:00, July 28th, 2008 under Fans & readers, Ranting, Reading |
Posted by Justine at 0:00, July 28th, 2008 under Fans & readers, Ranting, Reading |
Posted by Justine at 0:00, July 27th, 2008 under Praising, Viewing |
Candace Parker played. She played very well indeed. I was impressed. ((She's not dirty in defence unlike, say, Lisa Leslie or Delisha Milton-Jones.))
And
WE WON!!
And we are now a mere game out of first place in the East.
Life is very good indeed.
Thank you,
New York Liberty, for improving in so many different ways. We have post players. We have two good point guards. We have DE-FENCE. In fact, other than Indiana, I think we're the best defensive team in the WNBA. I love our full-court pressure. I love the many ways we made LA turn over the ball. Twas bliss.
Now all we have to do is shoot a bit better and we'll be perfect.
Too exhausted ...
Posted by Justine at 0:47, July 26th, 2008 under Basketball, New York City/USA, Sport |
"Monster" and "whiteant". Have you ever used them as verbs? If your answer is yes give sentence and say where you are from.
This is in the nature of a scientific survey. Truth must be told.
That is all.
Posted by Justine at 0:00, July 25th, 2008 under Science, Words & Language |
The WNBA has
handed down the suspensions for Tuesday's brawl. I know many are unhappy about the lenience towards Candace Parker in particular. But for extremely selfish reasons I am very very very glad. Because this means I get to see her play on Friday. Woo hoo!
What's making me cranky is the total absence of anything said about the abysmal refs. Where's their punishment?
Update: Though I'll admit I am very nervous about Leslie and Parker being so rested before we play then in the Garden.
Posted by Justine at 16:41, July 24th, 2008 under Basketball, New York City/USA, Sport, State of the World |
Posted by Justine at 20:50, July 23rd, 2008 under Admin, Bloggery, How To Ditch Your Fairy, Magic or Madness trilogy, Writing goals & milestones |
Posted by Justine at 11:55, July 23rd, 2008 under Basketball, Liar, Sport |
I just watched a hard fought game between the LA Sparks and Detroit Shock that ended in
a real fight. The ending was horrible with three players and one coach ejected and, I'm sure, lots of unwelcome attention from the press which ordinarily completely ignores the WNBA. Gosh, maybe now even the New York Times will cover a game.
I was most shocked by Detroit Assistant Coach Mahorn, who is male and well over 7ft tall 6ft 10inches, pushing over Lisa Leslie. He needs to be suspended for the rest of the season. You do not touch the opposing team's players ever. Under any circumstances.
But mostly I blame the referees. There were several incidents leading up to the fight between ...
Posted by Justine at 22:26, July 22nd, 2008 under Basketball, New York City/USA, Ranting, Sport, State of the World |
Posted by Justine at 12:40, July 22nd, 2008 under Writing goals & milestones, Writing life |
Posted by Justine at 0:32, July 22nd, 2008 under Ranting, Writing life |
The Live Long and Marry auction has
topped $30,000 46,000. Wow. That's just astonishing. Thirty thousand dollars! Forty-six thousand dollars!
For those who are curious: the winning bid to have
me name a character after you (or something) went for $225. (Gulp.) So the biology teacher in my next novel, who already had a Japanese name, is now named Yayeko Shoji after the bidder's mother.
Great name, huh? I'm very pleased it worked out. I was worried I'd wind up with an unusable name, you know, like BrushWithDeath Mergatroid. But it worked out perfectly. Happiness for everyone.
Here's hoping that this nasty anti-love initiative to strip people of the right to marry is defeated.
Posted by Justine at 0:17, July 21st, 2008 under Bloggery, Liar, New York City/USA, State of the World |
Posted by Justine at 1:18, July 20th, 2008 under Fans & readers, Magic or Madness trilogy |
Posted by Justine at 8:39, July 19th, 2008 under Writing life, Young Adult literature |
I may have mentioned that
Leilani Mitchell of the
New York Liberty looks pretty much exactly how I imagined Charlie, the protag of How To Ditch Your Fairy, looking. And she's a point guard---just like Charlie! How perfect is that?
So here is a Leilani photo taken by Bruce Yeung to adorn the most recent reviews of HTDYF. ((I love this photo. How gorgeous is it that her coach, Patty Coyle, is taller than she is? Also that Leilani's so ready to get back into the game that Coyle has to hold her jersey to finish giving her the rest of the play.))
The first review is over at ...
Posted by Justine at 0:00, July 19th, 2008 under How To Ditch Your Fairy, Sport, Vainglory |
Posted by Justine at 11:50, July 18th, 2008 under Praising, Reading, Viewing |
Just when you're approaching the end of one book and you really must give that book all your time and all your brain, another one comes along and starts insisting you write it instead.
This is WRONG and must stop. IMMEDIATELY.
Bugger off, stupid new book. GO AWAY!
Posted by Justine at 12:08, July 17th, 2008 under Liar, Ranting, Whingeing |
Posted by Justine at 12:57, July 16th, 2008 under Bloggery, Liar, Ranting, Whingeing, Writing life |
Posted by Justine at 12:30, July 15th, 2008 under Admin, Bloggery |
Posted by Justine at 0:05, July 15th, 2008 under Publishing business, Writing goals & milestones |
Posted by Justine at 9:50, July 14th, 2008 under Publishing business, Sydney/Australia |
Posted by Justine at 0:00, July 14th, 2008 under Bloggery |
Posted by Justine at 16:14, July 13th, 2008 under Liar, New York City/USA, State of the World |
Posted by Justine at 0:36, July 13th, 2008 under Publishing business, Sydney/Australia |
Posted by Justine at 10:55, July 12th, 2008 under Publishing business, State of the World, Sydney/Australia |
Posted by Justine at 12:27, July 11th, 2008 under Publishing business, Writing goals & milestones, Writing life |
Scalzi riffs on the absurdity of the extremely wealthy and privileged Lady de Rothschild accusing Barack Obama of being "elitist". The
comments thread is most excellent and raises lots of interesting questions.
Like what does "elitist" even mean? And what does it mean when applied to Obama as it has been so often this year?
Educated? When was the last time there was a US president without a university degree? Or a serious candidate for that office without a high school diploma?
Rich? Pretty much everyone accusing him of it is much richer than he is. McCain is, Hillary Clinton ditto, and Lady de Rothschild very very much so.
I am very puzzled by the whole thing. I'm pretty sure that ...
Posted by Justine at 0:00, July 11th, 2008 under Bloggery, New York City/USA, State of the World |
Posted by Justine at 0:03, July 10th, 2008 under How To Ditch Your Fairy, Liar, Ranting, Whingeing, Writing goals & milestones |
Posted by Justine at 0:06, July 9th, 2008 under Book tour, Liar, Whingeing, Writing goals & milestones |
Posted by Justine at 0:04, July 8th, 2008 under Liar, Whingeing, Writing life |
You know the homesickeness has gotten silly when you watch this lovely video what's been doing the rounds and making everyone smile and you burst into tears at the brief shot of Sydney . . .
Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) from
Matthew Harding on
Vimeo.
Posted by Justine at 20:18, July 7th, 2008 under New York City/USA, Praising, Sydney/Australia, Viewing |
This is going to be a bit mutual linky-linky. (("You're fabulous!" "No, you're fabulous!" While those watching gag.)) Maureen Johnson linked to
my quick little whinge about writing sometimes being hard before going into more detail about the sometime
not fun-ness of it. And now I am linking to her. Quoting her even:
When writing goes well, it feels magical . . . but there is no magic to it. Writing goes well because you have done some work. You have spent MANY MANY MANY HOURS sitting at your desk, written pages and pages and pages of useless crap, read piles of books, done a lot more wrong than you have right, questioned your sanity and talent . . ...
Posted by Justine at 13:24, July 7th, 2008 under Whingeing, Writing life |
Posted by Justine at 18:25, July 6th, 2008 under Liar, Writing process |
Posted by Justine at 9:02, July 6th, 2008 under Food, New York City/USA |
Atlanta Dream: 91; Chicago Sky: 84
The first win for the Atlanta Dream has made me very happy I can't imagine how thrilled the Dream fans are. They have had the longest losing streak (0-17) in WNBA history without actually being a bad team. Quite a few of those losses were thrillers. I know. I watched the game where the New York Liberty barely beat them.
I think it's astonishing and wonderful that more than 8,000 people have shown up for every one of those games even when they'd lost ten, fifteen, seventeen in a row. And now they have their first win. Woo hoo!! And w00t! It's good for Atlanta and it's good for the whole league. May it be ...
Posted by Justine at 21:52, July 5th, 2008 under Basketball, Praising, Sport |
Posted by Justine at 1:43, July 5th, 2008 under Praising, Viewing |
Posted by Justine at 15:24, July 3rd, 2008 under Liar, Whingeing, Writing life |
Posted by Justine at 14:18, July 2nd, 2008 under Praising, Publishing business, Reading, Sport, Travelling, Writing life |
Posted by Justine at 7:13, July 2nd, 2008 under Bloggery, Praising, Young Adult literature |
There's an auction going on over in the
wonderful world of LJ to raise money
for the fight against the California initiative which will legally destroy existing same-sex marriages and ban any further ones. If the initiative passes, it will write discrimination into the state constitution, annull existing marriages, and make Mr. Sulu cry.
You can find more information about the auction
here. There are some amazing items being offered for auction, not just jewellery and other objects but services. Writers offering to write a story for you, or to critique your own writing. Trust me that is
a very big offer.
Sadly, I don't have time to offer anything like that. Or I could offer but it ...
Posted by Justine at 11:29, July 1st, 2008 under Liar, State of the World |
