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I saw this tweet earlier by Wendy: RT @avonbooks: RWA – Gaylord hotel update: they’re monitoring situation & will announce outcome as soon as they can http://bit.ly/dgNL6c Technically, we’re in western Kentucky, just over the border slightly northwest from Clarkville, Tennessee, but we got a lot of rain ourselves over the weekend. Not nearly as much as central Tennessee, though. They got roughly 2 feet in 2 days. So, yeah, it’s a bad situation pretty much all around Nashville right now. In fact, I feel like we’re living in an island of calm since there are counties both to the east and west of usRead More →

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Oh, get your minds out of the gutter. This is about comic books. 😉 I ran across this article the other day about the movie wars between Marvel and DC comics and who might be winning. Or who might not be. It was an interesting read. For one thing, I hadn’t realized just how many movies Marvel had put out. They have been seriously cranking them out. Something in particular, though, popped out at me and made me think of the oft-repeated discussions we romance readers have about the appeal of alpha vs. beta heroes. Now this is where I get myself into trouble. I was raisedRead More →

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I’ve been smiling over this one for days now and am still trying to wrap my head around the idea of a horse that weighed less than than both of my children at birth. Blink. Blink.Read More →

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(Quick update: The Superman Homepage website that I’ve linked to several times in this post is changing servers so the links may not work for a couple of days, which meant I had to load the image from another source but eventually the text links will work. I hope. If not I will tweak them in a day or so. ;-)) Would it sound totally crass and tacky of me to say that when I saw this picture of the original Lois Lane, Noel Neill, my eyes were immediately fixated on her belt buckle? Wow. Okay, so I’m a fan and a collector. I plead the fifth. OrRead More →

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I’m a firm believer in laughter as the best medicine. Which is why I subscribe to five different humor feeds, four of which are connected to the Cheeseburger Network, you know the people who brought us the Lolcats and went on from there. The one I get not connected to the Cheeseburger network, I follow almost as much to annoy my son as for the chuckles I get from the images. It’s Animals With Lightsabers. And, yeah, it’s about as crazy as it sounds. Sometimes it’s just dumb but other times it’s hilarious the situations people photoshop the lightsabers into. And then others are truly inspired. 😉 The Cheeseburger onesRead More →

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I have The Phantom starring Billy Zane on video and rewatch it fairly regularly. I wouldn’t say I love it but it’s one of those movies I can watch to pass the time when there isn’t anything else on. What can I say? I’m addicted to superheroes. But I definitely got more than a chuckle out this: Don’t get me wrong, I have a major soft spot for this 1996 Billy Zane vehicle, based on the Lee Falk comic strip, but that says little about its quality. The reason this guy makes the list has less to do with his ham-fisted line delivery or dorkyRead More →

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A new Doctor Who begins tonight on BBC America played by Matt Smith. Well, technically, I think it’s already started in Britain several weeks ago but beggars can’t be choosers. 😉 Yeah, I’m now definitely hooked on this long running science fiction series. It all started around Christmas and New Years with the marathons they did as they were wrapping up the run of the last incarnation of the character played by David Tennant. I think I over indulged but I finally started to see the fascination so many have for this character and series. I mean, what we have here, basically is a character whoRead More →

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I know this because I am one. My son knows this because he is a male who has dealt with two female fans, me and his sister. In fact, we got into a discussion about obsessive sci-fi fandoms just the other day after he ran across a Doctor Who forum that I think actually scared him a little at the degree of, um, obsessiveness. Doctor Who has been around for a lot of years and undergone a lot of, er, regenerations. Deadly combination for obssessive fans. Anyone care to speculate on who is worse Star Trek or Doctor Who fans? Not me. 😉 All of which musingRead More →

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I was going to post about this yesterday but for some reason my Internet connection was the absolute pits. I have a satellite connection and sometimes even when the connection says it’s okay, it just isn’t. Or maybe it was the Internet in general that was off. Whatever, yesterday it was funky as all get out. Some pages would load fast and others wouldn’t even half load. I couldn’t even get to my website admin pages so I finally just gave up. Anyway, back to the point of this post, for the last few weeks, blogging has been on the back burner big time. LongRead More →

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Just to let everyone know, I’ve been laid low by a bad back and so I’m not spending any more time on the computer than I have to. Hopefully, by the end of the week things will get back to normal and I can start posting again.Read More →

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I don’t know whether to ROTFL or bang my head on the wall. Seriously. Naturally, this was based on Harlequin titles, but still. The scholars created a database of just over 15,000 romance novels published between 1949 and 2009. Not surprisingly, they found the most frequently used word in the title was “Love,” which appeared 840 times. “Bride” was close behind at 835. “Baby” was slightly back at 696, followed by “Man” at 672 and “Marriage” at 612. These words “clearly suggest long-term commitment and reproduction are important to readers,” Cox and Fisher write. Indeed, commitment was the most common theme they discovered, with wordsRead More →

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I think I’m bummed. Sort of. I’ve noticed several fellow reader bloggers talking about how long they’ve been blogging and/or their blogging anniversary. It only made me realize that I have no idea how long I’ve been doing this. Or when I actually started. This is either a very good thing or a very bad thing. 😉Read More →

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Well, I say troubles, but the reader is working fine. What happened is that when I had to reformat my computer awhile back and therefore had to reinstall software, seems the eBookwise Librarian (their conversion software for non-eBookwise formatted books) isn’t communicating with the reader. Which is weird, since the Librarian software seems to be working fine too. As far as I know, I have the proper driver installed or I wouldn’t be able to access books from the eBookwise site itself. So, while I’m waiting to get a final answer back from eBookwise support- they’ve already sent me two emails asking for error messages I’m notRead More →

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I always tell everyone that junk fiction or trash fiction doesn’t only refer to the content but the medium. Well, check this out (emphasis added): On Monday, ComicConnect announced that it had sold the first Superman comic book, Action Comics No. 1, for a record-setting $1 million. That was the record — until today, when the first Batman comic sold for $1,075,500. Sock! Bam! Pow! Both comics marked the first appearance of each superhero, in Action Comics and Detective Comics, respectively. The popularity of both characters meant they each soon earned their own titles. Although comic books were produced in mass quantities, in the 1930s —Read More →

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I have those glasses that darken with the sunlight. When I went outside the other day to get the mail and came back inside, they took forever to change back to regular after all that reflection off the snow. And the sun wasn’t even shining that day! I was walking around the house for several minutes wondering why it was so dark before I figured out what in the world had happened. That’s happened a couple of times in the summer but never in the winter that I can remember. The odd things is that I finally had to literally warm them up in my handsRead More →