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Did Alex say that Mark Twain said that "this is the little lady" quote? Wasn't that Lincoln?
Stowe's daughter Hattie was told that when the President heard her name he seized her hand and said, "Is this the little woman who made the great war?"
Mark Twain, Alex? Okay, I suppose it could have been Twain, who fit the time period (although Twain fought briefly for the Confederacy).
I know Jim is from Canada, but Agatha Christie??? Did she change nationalities? Sheesh!
For FJ my first thought was Louisa May Alcott (J! loves LMA) and the time period was write (heh, I made a pun!), but I knew LMA wasn't write (heh again!), and then I ran out of time because I had to explain -- to Mr. Author -- that Margaret Mitchell wrote GWTW in 1936 !
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The spiked wheel by which she was to be killed broke when she touched it (whence the term Catherine wheel), and she was then beheaded.
Hmmm... there's a book in the above.
I mean, if all the Tudor beheadings were bestsellers...
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My boyfriend was so busy looking at Suzanne’s chest that he hardly could read the clues.
Dr. Toothbrush too. Sheesh!
And Mr. Author. When Alex said Suzanne was ahead of the others, Mr. Author cracked up.
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Does that count?
LOL. Good for you!
And okay, I take it back. No more 'does that count'!
QuoteI always thought Keeley Smith was so weird though. Even if she was Before My Time. *cough*
And I was a wee lass *cough* with scraped elbows and skinned knees and an undying love for Fess Parker, but, oh, how I wanted Keeley's straight black hair and pixie bangs.
Except, even if I tried ironing my curls, I still looked like a plump Shirley Temple with Anne (of Green Gables) colored hair.
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I didn't twig to Book of the MONTH, but Mr. Author did. Plus, a *picture* of Louis Prima with Keeley Smith (sob!) Now I'm singing, "That old black magic..."
FJ was an instaget. I don't know Amy Tan personally, but my lit agent is with the same literary agency that reps Amy. Does that count? :)
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Good for you, Good Queen Jane (heh!)
I'm listed for singer, which is where I want to be, but I also play guitar,
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if it ever appears as a clue. It's ... wait for it ... Illinois.
LOL.
I graduated from the U of Wisconsin (On Wisconsin, on Wisconsin...) but briefly attended Queens College, where the school song is … waiting for it... Q is for the Q that's in Queens College, U is for the U that's in Queens College, E is for the E that's in Queens College, E is for the other E in Queens College…
QUILTING, I yelled, scaring my chocolate Lab, Magic.
At first I thought FJ was a horse race, because of the, you know, flowers.
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Holy shit! Sorry. Holy shit! Sorry.
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Every time another 18 year old in a bikini top and boy shorts steps up and chirps, "I'm a contemporary dancer!!" another little part of me dies.
And an angel loses his wings!
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For FJ...you're not going to believe this...even I don't believe it...I guessed New York because I remembered "Anita" singing "I like the isle of Manhattan" in West Side Story. Worse, I briefly LIVED in New Jersey!
Speaking of WWS, I had an accident with my bottom teeth and was having partial dentures made and had an audition for a role in my Community Theatre's production of Oliver! The director said not to worry about my missing teeth. He promised no one [else] would be there. Hah. I guess the producer, the asst. director, the pianist and the choreographer don't count. I had planned to sing a song from Candide (one of my favorite musicals) but at the last minute I channelled Natalie Wood and sang, "I feel pretty, I feel pretty...."
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My piano will accommodate numerous members of the Women Authors Singers. Just dress appropriately.
Is this appropriate?
I saw Streisand on B'way in Funny Girl and one of my stories is from a cat's viewpoint and starts out, "Hello gorgeous" and I'm married to an Aussie, so I got Perth.
Shoot. Why didn't the picture go under "Is this appropriate?" And why is it so big (sorry, kids)?
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Do you happen to know him, Mystery Author? He's in your genre. [go ahead and drink, I said it like Alex]
I know who he is, but I've never met him. I've read an anthology by my friends Jim Fusilli and Craig Johnson, and Tyler has a story in it.
Re: Crossing the border. I was once asked by a Canadian Customs Lady what I bought in the states. She had a heavy French accent (Alex would have loved her). I replied that I'd bought a T-shirt and a ceramic frog. Well! You'd have thought I was smuggling cocaine (or bibles). Two burly men searched my luggage. The men could have posed for an Immigration Cops Calendar. I would have bought one, maybe more than one... where was I? Oh, yes, they asked to see the frog. I said, "What's with the frog?" When I showed it to them, they burst out laughing. Seems the Customs Lady thought "ceramic" was a breed of frog and I was transporting a live froggy.
As I left Customs, I softly sang, "It's not easy being green..."
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For FJ I thought Truman, but reread the clue and recalled the emphasis Alex put on HE and changed it to Dewey at the last minute.
I ran the shapes category but decided not to brag about it.
I love that Ali was the only one who got the American history FJ right. Hah!
Obviously, Betsy DeVos isn't
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When I've recommended the Outlander books to others, I always feel like I'm promoting porno, even though it's not
LOL. One of my books was inspired by events that occurred during the filming of The Exorcist. My sister played the Demon (yup, the rotating bed, pea soup, etc.) for Linda Blair. The first sentence in my book is: "The woman who straddled Victor Madison had hiccups." The chapter is
somewhatextremely raunchy, ending with a murder. When my sister recommends the book (it is, after all, her story), she always tells people to skip the first chapter.Diana Gabaldon pronounces her name Gab-al-don. There's a slight emphasis on the Gab.
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I was surprised that the contestant who knew Diana Gabaldon wrote Outlander didn't know cock-a-leekie.
And I was surprised Alex didn't correct the pronunciation of Gabaldon :)
I once did a (midnight) conference panel with Diana and some other authors. We read aloud the sexiest scene in one of our books.
When it was Diana's turn...boy oh boy oh girl oh!
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In terms of unknown gender I think I'd go with "they". Like investigating a murder "They stabbed the victim here and then they dragged him over there".
In my own writing I'd use: "The victim was stabbed here and dragged over there."
Re editing: SABER5055, I love you!
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I've come to accept "Hopefully", and "they" as a singular, so ...
Editor as well as author here. I'll reluctantly accept hopefully but not "they" as a singular! And I prefer eyes stay on faces, thus won't accept trailed, pierced, followed, swept (the room) and, especially, "dropped" (where they could get stepped on). Not that I remember, but Stephen King --- on page 257 of 11-22-63 --- had his character drop his eyes to the desk, and a couple of paragraphs later, same character picked his eyes up off the desk. Heh.
LOL the following quote, especially "mute point."
QuoteIrregardless, I'm glad to see you made a 360 degree turn on that. It's a mute point.
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and the Borscht Belt
Ah, the Borscht Belt. My first mother-in-law took me there to hear Totie Fields. Anyone remember her? I cringed throughout her act, poor lady. I've never been big on fat jokes, and in my first published mystery, members of a diet club are getting killed off at goal weight.
Anyway. . .Totie's real name was Sophie Feldman. I would think she'd take a more urbane pseudonym, like Sally Field or Totie Carson.
Rats! I jinxed Catherine. I'll have to work on my wink-winks.
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Sadly, it does not sell. But we are above crass commercial concerns.
That's what I say when one of my books gets a
badtepid review. (I lie!)Gee, I hope Catherine loses <wink-wink>.
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Re: The J! Band. Can I be the singer, or at least one of the singers, please, please? I have creds!
And I'll grow my hair like Diana Ross. Or Elvis.
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Please, Flying Spaghetti Monster*, make him flame out on Monday.
I've never prayed (nor met) Flying Spaghetti Monster, but I'll pray to he-she-it from now on.
I totally take back what I said about David on Friday. He annoyed the living, er, daylights out of me during his second appearance, Monday night, and I yayed when he lost. Mr. Author thought "the girl on the end" (hmmm...great book title!) who won was "very pretty" and thus rooted for her.
Mr. Author is a tad shallow.
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Give me a "like" if you also pre-yelled out Rocky in the squirrel category.
LIKE!
Speaking of 'like", I like David. His OTT enthusiasm makes me smile <ducking>
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I saw Fiorello on B'way and loved it ("Little old New York is plenty good enough for me, good enough for me...")
That was an oops. Little Old New York is from the musical Tenderloin <thunking head on keyboard>. I did see Fiorello. And Tenderloin :)
QuoteNo, he wrote the music for A Chorus Line.
Yes, I know. I actually worked tech on A Chorus Line during one of its out-of-town runs (Tulsa). That's when I learned the cast doesn't know who is going to be chosen until the end of the show (except for Cassie). I also saw the original cast on B'way. The Jeptestant guessed Hair when the answer was A Chorus Line, so I was trying to make a joke. I should have said Marvin Carson :)
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I loved the Pulitzer Musical category. My favorite one though is Fiorello and I was pretty sure it wouldn't be included. Happy that the ex-champ got Sondheim but looked on in disbelief when she thought Hair was from the mid 70s.
I saw Fiorello on B'way and loved it ("Little old New York is plenty good enough for me, good enough for me...") I was lucky since it closed after only 16 performances.
Learn something new every day. Like, Marvin Hamlish wrote the music for Hair. Or was that Kit Hamlish?
A picture of the Alamo??? And Greta Garbo??? Holy crap!
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Jeopardy! Season 34 (2017-2018)
in Jeopardy!
Or how she watches paint dry.
Holy cow. Lauren has no quirks. Not one. What fun is that? We'll have to snark on her opponents.