Bornfamous

There was a hit song when I was a girl that was played over and over on the radio until I couldn’t stand it any more. And still it played on:
When I was just a little girl,
I asked my mother,
“What will I be?”
I hear Doris Day’s voice when I try to tell you about the [...]

A day in the life.

bad samaritan: “The NaNoWriMo forum will be a place for those participants in this little corner of the blogging universe to share our tragedies and successes over the course of the month, update each other with daily word counts, ask advice on plot points, share inspirations and spur one another past writer%u2019s block. Or, you [...]

Be submissive to everything. Open. Listening.
- Jack Kerouac

We just had an earthquake a few minutes ago. We don’t feel them here in San Diego, so this is a big deal. Well, to us it was. We were both holding each other in the hallway, laughing nervously, wondering if a bigger one is on the way, planning to run outside if the shaking [...]

oops - i forgot to remind robby to sign up. he’s decided to write his own novel in november. no problem–he doesn’t need to know about the signup part, that’s just a formality. i’ll post his word count over there on the right, along with my own.
pretty cool for a 13-year-old kid, dontcha think? my [...]

NaNoWriMo !
Sign ups for 2001 are over.
Thanks to everyone who signed on! We expected 500, we got 5000. This is going to be the best, biggest NaNoWriMo ever.
At this point in time, the NaNoWriMo staff are busy planning their third-rate novels. Any emails recieved about sign ups after October 29 will be deleted automatically [...]

One down, two to go. I’m finishing work projects, clearing my plate for the Big Day. No time to say hello–goodbye!

I’m late, I’m late
for a very important date.
No time to say
hello–goodbye!
I’m late, I’m late, I’m late!
- White Rabbit

The Spirit of the Internet: “With all of the commercial excitement caused by this new technology, we sometimes overlook the fact that a powerful new means of inter-human communication is evolving at an incredibly rapid pace. Like the clatter of souvenir vendors outside our historic cathedrals, the clatter of e-commerce can draw your attention away [...]

Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.
- Fran Lebowitz

And the time came when the risk it took to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
- Anais Nin

have just discovered a cool feature of greymatter that lets me get around the problem of not being able to use server side includes to create sidebar link blogs and other stuff on this page. it’s the multiple authors feature, which lets me create a chapter entry list on the right just for my nanowrimo [...]

the chapter entry list will be on the right under “chapters”. nothing there yet until thursday, nov. 1 - so come back, y’all!

If you’re tired of hearing about anthrax and Afghanistan, why not take a pre-holiday break and find out what’s going on in the little town of Bethlehem?
I have been watching Bethlehem Television as the lines of breaking news flashed on the screen. (We announce the death of … Citizens: Beware when walking in the streets [...]