Please post any fiction--or non-fiction.

Please post comments on any fiction posted. Don't worry about whether or not you're saying the "right thing"--just hi or thanks or 'I'm reading' is helpful for the writers.
I urge you to support Sarah, who's running a story right now with the Liberator posts.
Thanks.

The floor is yours.

Government computers used to find information on Joe the Plumber

Investigators trying to determine whether access was illegal

Friday, October 24, 2008 8:57 PM
By Randy Ludlow
The Columbus Dispatch

"State and local officials are investigating if state and law-enforcement computer systems were illegally accessed when they were tapped for personal information about "Joe the Plumber."

"...Public records requested by The Dispatch disclose that information on Wurzelbacher's driver's license or his sport-utility vehicle was pulled from the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles database three times shortly after the debate.

Friiiday. Bad week for me. And funnily enough, I wasn't even thinking about money when I said that.

Please post jokes.

Why do we have elections?
Because Monopoly with real money gets boring.
Because junior high is too short.
Because there's only so many people you can hurt with religion.
To check the census.
Because how many other booths can you leap out of and save the world?!
(please don't try this at your own polling place; caped crusader collusions can turn to violence.)
Because otherwise we'd know we have no choice.
To keep us in practice filling out those little oval bubbles. Otherwise we might forget between the SATs and the Social Security forms.
So the Village can blame us.
What else can be stolen so cheaply anymore?
Because shop early, shop often isn't funny.

Welcome to the Book Reviews.

Here's the place to talk about books.

Please review a book, old or now, that you have read.

We are looking for books that helped you, that entertained you, that let you escape, that you recommend. Or even those books that horrified you, that you will pan.

All reviews welcome any time.
Please let us know the answer to this question: Where do you find the books you read?

Anyone?

Tell us what you think about what you're reading.

Review a book here, tomorrow.

What book do you wish you'd written?

Correntewire Fiction “has delivered” yet we feel there "might be more out there."

Anyone have any writing they wish to post, fiction—or non-fiction?

Feedback (we'll be nice), blurbs, readers...what more could you want?

Please post at your own blog. You may post here too if you want.

In any case, please post in the comments here with a link to fiction or non-fiction you have done, so people will have a chance to read what you're done. And if possible, please comment on what you've read.

Welcome to the last day of the work week.

Happy Friday!

We made it. I think.

Please post jokes.

What do you say to a Joke-Off? Someone tells a joke and then we all try to tell a joke on the same topic.

Please see here, Ye Olde Writing Post (YOWP), for Parts I, II, and now III of Sarah's action adventure fiction, "Liberator."
Also, don't miss fiction also posted here by Jeqal, "Didactic American Walk About," revision 2, and Badger, "Dream Yourself a Dream Come True."
Ye Olde Writing Post will be up again on Saturday morning if anyone else wishes to publish some fiction--or non-fiction. It's a real thrill to have more updates before Saturday, so thanks Sarah!

Update: You are welcome to post or cross-post at YOWP also, but to book them we need individual posts at your own blog. Yes, I got that exactly backwards but think it's right now: please post your fiction in your own blog. Thanks for writing!

Welcome to the Book Reviews.

Please review a book.

We would be happy to hear your thoughts.

Any topic any time...

Today we are particularly interested in Do-It-Yourself books and books that are set in the fall.
Are prize-winning books good reads? Do you really like them? What impact have they made on you?

Read all about books!

Sunday Morning Book Reviews, here, tomorrow.

Why not write a book review?

The wise among us suspected I'd be back about the tomato, soon, didn't you? Yes, the tomato's powdery mildew came back. So I finally took the advise y'all had so generously given, and treated the leaves with baking soda (and a little bit of dish soap), but awkwardly, by combining dry baking soda with a little soap and water on my fingers and very gently mashing it on top of any powdery mildew outbreaks. I fed the tomato right afterwards. That was two days ago. The tomato looks more vigorous now--and mildew free so far, now that all the baking soda has fallen off.
The frost two nights ago was pretty hard. The unpatterned frost on the vehicle windshield was thick. There was white ice outlining each piece of the longer grass.

Is it because some of us can't understand what sexism is?

Or is it really because we are having a public negotiation about what's going to be acceptable in our society?

16,443 Responses to “YOU DECIDE: Fair or Unfair — Is This Photo Sexist?”
(Note: although some forums have fewer comments, there were almost 34,000 comments about the second debate.)

"Whether an artistic portrayal of a vice presidential candidate or an explicitly sexist snapshot, the photograph prompted 11,485 viewer comments in the first three hours after it was posted Thursday on FOXNews.com." Selected comments here.

Correntewire Fiction "remains elusive" yet with "promising potential."

Anyone have any writing they wish to post, fiction--or non-fiction?

We'll give feedback (try and stop us--but we'll be kind) and blurbs.

Happy Friday!

Please send jokes!

Bernanke's co-author:

Wealthy Are Afraid They’ll Run Out of Money
Robert Frank, Wall Street Journal

"It’s not just the middle class that has money worries. Even the affluent are worrying about running out of cash.

"According to a new survey from American Express Publishing and the Harrison Group, nearly half of respondents with incomes of $250,000 or more agreed with the statement that “I worry that at some point I could run out of money.”...Fully 69% agreed with the statement that “The recent real estate and banking crisis has affected my sense of financial security.”

It's a good thing that "It's A Wonderful Life" ends when it does. (Spoiler alert!)
After all, the bank examiners might come back after Christmas--in fact, they should. What happened to that bank money?
The bank examiners saw the community giving money to Jimmy Stewart; that's not the same thing as having money in the bank. In fact, it was a public pay-off.
Banks can't operate like that, current evidence to the contrary.

Welcome to the Book Reviews.

Please post a review of any kind of book: all are welcome.

Today we're particularly thinking about banned books, books on love, and crockpot or soup cookbooks.

Isn't it time for another knitting post on books? Or at least some type of handcrafts?

Please let us know about any great fireside reads too.

Thank you!

Tomorrow it's Sunday!
Please write us a book review for the SMBR.
What books did your family--or your school--ban until you were older?

Help me! Save me! I must campaign for Obama. True story.
Someone I love cannot canvas by themselves (due to an unalterable reason like infirmity, disability, gender or age.) Their partner(s) cannot make it. This is door-to-door canvassing. I am not a stranger to campaigning. I worked for the campaign in '04. My beloved person is very inexperienced and will choke at first, as is natural, and I will have to save the day.
But I have never tried to campaign for someone that I don't wholeheartedly support.
What are the talking points for the Dems and Obama this year--that I could say? Post-financial crisis? What would you say? I have an hour to prepare.

It's the weekend...time to get to all those things you've put off, like writing on your favorite website! Several of you said "yes," to publishing your fiction with us. So...here it is. Please post a piece of your fiction.

Oh, and readers? Please post your responses, preferably in zingy book-jacket quotes. Even a simple "Thank you...should top the local bestseller list" would be appreciated.
(P.S. CD, was a sequel to your last fiction post actually promised...? We'd love to hear more!)

Following the finale (for now!) of the Wall Street Theater (Follies?), here is the rose and the tomato, part two:
The tomato is still alive and the dreaded powdery mildew spots are vanishing. We're not out of the woods (and here, never will be!) but conditions are much better. I, er, took the spirit of your advice and made sure the tomato plant was hotter and drier and sunnier. And, um, that's about it. (I was going to do more drastic things but RL, cheapness and laziness intervened, and so I did...nature's cure. Yes, wildflowers do very well around my house.) The tomato is putting out tiny new growth.

How about your favorite comedian and favorite joke?

I heard an old joke this week--the old singing telegram joke. Anyone want to tell it?

The New Dawn roses have produced one of the last roses this autumn, a beautiful pale pink rose, just beginning to unfold. Outside here it's already 49 and the weather service predicts lower temperatures tonight. I live in a micro-zone called "Colder than the Other Side of Town" or "the Great White North;" I often have frost when others do not. Tonight you can see your breath already.
Do I bag the rose to make sure it doesn't freeze?
With a paper or plastic bag? With a little added moisture in the bag (an old rosarian trick) or not?
Help! I'd like to see my beautiful pale pink rose fully bloom--outside.
Or should I (wince) cut it?

Nature is shouting!

Every time I open the door, even under white-gray skies, the trees show beautiful reds, bright yellows, soft oranges and roses.

The landscape is suddenly more three dimensional; you can see through your own red trees into the yellow of the next clearing.

After the recent rain storm, the ground itself is carpeted with multi-colored maple leaves. The wild asters, big clouds of white flowers, are covered by wet bees and red and gold pieces of leaf.