Rants

When I need to vent before I kick someone.

I’ve been known to bite, too.

#AmazonFail–Why Should I Care?

Amazon is being monumentally stupid. That, or someone has hacked them. I’m betting it’s the former, because it’s just harder to believe in their lack of security than it is in their intelligence. They have, apparently, decided to make it harder to find pr0n on their website. Okay, fine. Stupid, since people shopping at Amazon […]

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Why QueryFail Is Good For Us

First, an explanation. #queryfail is an event that happened on Twitter, where agents and editors Tweeted about why they rejected queries. Sometimes it was a sentence from the query, sometimes it was a comment like “four paragraphs about his education, not a word about the book.” All author identifiers were removed. Now, of course, because

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:headdesk:

Stupid people…are stupid. I ranted elsewhere (safely, to friends, who will not post my words where they might be…ahem…found.) But yes.  Off to drink, now.  And maybe then I’ll read some boy-smut.  Or watch Aliens and imagine certain people in place of those getting ripped apart.

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Drain Bamage

I don’t recall having a traumatic brain injury in the last month or so.  You’d think I would.  Oh, maybe not the injury itself, but at least waking up with my head bandaged or something. But no.  Nothing.  So can anyone explain to me why so many people I talk to are suddenly treating me

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If You Don’t Think This is Disgusting…

If you don’t think this is disgusting, you’re part of the problem. Deep-seated racial misgivings could cost Barack Obama the White House if the election is close, according to an AP-Yahoo News poll that found one-third of white Democrats harbor negative views toward blacks — many calling them “lazy,” “violent,” responsible for their own troubles.

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