Just For Fun Friday 08/23/13
Fun Fact - Did you know there’s a chapter missing from the published version of The Looking Glass? Apparently, at the end of the chapter about the White Knight, Alice was to have grabbed a woman’s wig instead of the goat’s beard, which would have led to the missing chapter (called A Wasp in a Wig). […]
Keeping it Real
The week before I was born, my parents’ car gave out, and they found a used convertible that seemed to be just what they wanted. They bought it, feeling sporty and whatever the word for ‘cool’ was back then. They drove to the hospital in it the night I was born, all full of hope […]
Just For Fun Friday 08/16/13
Maybe not entirely humorous, but interesting thoughts taken from The Book of Poisonous Quotes, compiled by Colin M. Jarman. My comments are in parentheses, but I found it most strange that the majority of the ‘Literature’ quotations are by writers or publishers, about writers or their works: A Literary Critic is a person who […]
Shrink Me II
As Alice discovered, it’s all about space. In this e-publishing era, each letter, space, and punctuation mark is a byte. And bytes are space. That’s why the old rule – two spaces at the beginning of a sentence – has been thrown out. Now it’s one space everywhere. And if they (those invisible editors) could find […]
Just for Fun Friday – 8/9/13
Fridays will be sharing short humor. Might be visual, might be a video – just whatever comes up. Enjoy! This one I saved from an e-mail I received quite some time ago. What else can I say??
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