Book reports / the papers tell of scandal
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garranI've written reports on Spook Country and The Screwtape Letters for J. et. al, and on The Privilege of the Sword for Brendan alone.
My sister had a story picked up by the Globe and Mail! (I unfortunately can't link to it online because apparently one has to pay for it.) It's all about how the little northern city she's living in now is a hotbed of immorality and disease. You might be able to read many more scandalous details about her experience there right now, if she had yet got around to setting up the weblog she talks about. She says that the main thing preventing her is that she can't think of a good title/account name, and is apparently not amenable to my solution of putting in a very basic placeholder title and never bothering to come up with a better one. (Hey, if it worked for Windsor House...) "Why don't you put up a call for title suggestions on your deviantart or something?" I suggested a couple of weeks ago on the phone. "Why don't you do that?" she riposted, somewhat illogically. "The people on your weblog seem like they would be good at that sort of thing."
So here you go. Does anyone have a good title idea for my sister's hypothetical blog which, if she likes your idea enough, she might feel motivated to start? Her name is Tess and she is a 21-year-old newspaper reporter who will probably be especially amenable to suggestions drawn from Tegan and Sara or Be Good Tanyas lyrics.
The other day I saw the tail end of a Conservative attack ad against Stephane Dion. I haven't been paying attention: is there going to be an election? Our local MP -- the only winning candidate I've ever voted for -- just resigned from the Liberal party amid allegations of campaign finance law violations (is it a sign that I'm used to BC politics that I'm not even really upset about this? At least he didn't switch parties immediately after being elected), so I wonder who they would find to run instead.
My sister had a story picked up by the Globe and Mail! (I unfortunately can't link to it online because apparently one has to pay for it.) It's all about how the little northern city she's living in now is a hotbed of immorality and disease. You might be able to read many more scandalous details about her experience there right now, if she had yet got around to setting up the weblog she talks about. She says that the main thing preventing her is that she can't think of a good title/account name, and is apparently not amenable to my solution of putting in a very basic placeholder title and never bothering to come up with a better one. (Hey, if it worked for Windsor House...) "Why don't you put up a call for title suggestions on your deviantart or something?" I suggested a couple of weeks ago on the phone. "Why don't you do that?" she riposted, somewhat illogically. "The people on your weblog seem like they would be good at that sort of thing."
So here you go. Does anyone have a good title idea for my sister's hypothetical blog which, if she likes your idea enough, she might feel motivated to start? Her name is Tess and she is a 21-year-old newspaper reporter who will probably be especially amenable to suggestions drawn from Tegan and Sara or Be Good Tanyas lyrics.
The other day I saw the tail end of a Conservative attack ad against Stephane Dion. I haven't been paying attention: is there going to be an election? Our local MP -- the only winning candidate I've ever voted for -- just resigned from the Liberal party amid allegations of campaign finance law violations (is it a sign that I'm used to BC politics that I'm not even really upset about this? At least he didn't switch parties immediately after being elected), so I wonder who they would find to run instead.
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Date: 2007-11-11 07:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-11-11 07:37 pm (UTC)-Andy H.
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Date: 2007-11-12 07:24 pm (UTC)(You pass through the places, and the places pass through you, but you carry them with you on the soles of your traveling shoes)