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progress, thievery, and ranch dressing on the side
Today's word count: 1,200.
To reward myself for continuing productivity, I'm going to make a list of words I don't like. No explanations; I just don't like these words and thus it's a safe bet to say you won't find them among the 1,200 I put down on paper today:
hubby
canker (as in 'canker sore')
maroon
utilize
lozenge
Also: Disturbing alert from Candy at Smart Bitches and also from Booksquare: there's a website called Bookaza (no link for them, no sirree) which calls itself an ebook retailer, but looks to be a pirate's den.
Pirate: Somebody who sells books or ebooks or other intellectual property without entering into a formal arrangement with the publisher, for which the publisher and author are not paid.
Two of my novels are being sold at Bookaza. And, to add insult to injury, they give those two novels a lousy three stars out of five. How very rude. If you're going to rob me, you could at least smile while you do it.
Finally, another disturbing bit, this one by way of the radiant Robyn Bender and her partners in crime, Cassandra and Rydra Wong. William Shatner, who will forever be Captain Kirk in the minds of the StarTrek fen, is now playing a lawyer on the television show Boston Legal. And so what, you ask. Well, this is what: he recently filmed a scene with James Spader, who also plays a lawyer. A sex scene; both the characters are gay. Do I care who William Shatner or Captain Kirk or Bozo the Clown sleeps with? No. I do not. Consenting adults, and all that. Is it possible that this is a beautifully done, well written scene? Well, sure. Anything is possible, but I do have my doubts, I must admit. Those doubts were intensified by this excerpt from an interview with the two actors concerning this particular scene, where Spader describes Shatner's body aroma like this:
"He had a very sort of, a strangely very attractive sort of pungent sort of gamey, sort of a venison or a lamb sausage... and a little bit of rosemary with a touch of ranch dressing."
For the whole horrifying interview, click here.
May 31, 2005 06:34 PM
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Oops, your link dead-ends at: "Http request contains a malformed escape sequence."
Meanwhile, are both characters indeed canonically gay? (My knowlege of "Boston Legal" had ended at: many of the characters are lawyers. But then it expanded to include the info about the Shatner bouquet. And I am going no further into this matter until I'm quite sure that ALL our escape sequences are fully operational [g])
Posted by: robynbender at May 31, 2005 08:13 PM
Meanwhile, are both characters indeed canonically gay?
No, they just love each other *g*... But seriously, not that I know of--unless the producers are planning to take the show in a whole new and different direction second season.
Posted by: Cassandra at June 1, 2005 10:50 AM
Bookaza seems to have disappeared for now, but will no doubt come back like a case of herpes once the heat dies down. Bad cess to them.
Posted by: Jena at June 1, 2005 02:52 PM
Bookaza has branched into a few other site names. Here is how to fight these people:
If you find one of these sites, here is how to trace these people:
type in the domain name and press enter. Get the IP address of the server and then visit
type in the IP address and hit enter
It will list the owner of the IP subnet - these are the people you want to talk to because they can turn off the IP address or refer you to the hosting company. The whois database may or may not be accurate and is easily changeable, ARIN is accurate and is not easily changeable.
Give this guy no room to grow. Make him pay for domain names until he's out of cash.
Posted by: Rebecca Pack at June 1, 2005 07:22 PM
you said that canker is a word you don't like but you used it repeatedly in Lake in the Clouds to refer to scarlet fever
Posted by: Amanda at July 7, 2005 08:43 PM
Amanda -- I did use it, because that was the common usage of the time. But I still don't like it.
Posted by: sara at July 9, 2005 12:13 AM