Archive for September, 2008
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008
Just read that the good folks at Bitch (“the feminist response to pop culture”) are in need of support of a monetary sort. They write: First the bad news: The print publishing industry as a whole is staring into a void. Across the board, newsstand magazine sales are in a slump, subscriber numbers are down, [...]
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Monday, September 22nd, 2008
Just before TechBoo and I took off for a weekend getaway to Miami (heavenly!) this past Friday, I learned that Mamalicious! has been awarded a Certified Honest Blogger Award! AJ aka The Cruel Secretary is the wonderful soul who likes me…she really likes me! (Check out my certification on the sidebar…Thanks, TechBoo! Mwah!) According to [...]
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Monday, September 22nd, 2008
Just before TechBoo and I took off for a weekend getaway to Miami (heavenly!) this past Friday, I learned that Mamalicious! has been awarded a Certified Honest Blogger Award! AJ aka The Cruel Secretary is the wonderful soul who likes me…she really likes me! (Check out my certification on the sidebar…Thanks, TechBoo! Mwah!) According to [...]
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Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
I ripped the title of this entry from an entry that Yvette posted recently with clips from HBO’s “The BlackList Vol. 1″. The first clip is of Chris Rock: I shared this clip today with someone I love, noting that she’s Larry Holmes and her parents are the racist judges. My friend is totally kicking [...]
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Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
I ripped the title of this entry from an entry that Yvette posted recently with clips from HBO’s “The BlackList Vol. 1″. The first clip is of Chris Rock: I shared this clip today with someone I love, noting that she’s Larry Holmes and her parents are the racist judges. My friend is totally kicking [...]
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Tuesday, September 16th, 2008
Michelle at GirlChildPress is playing with my emotions. In case you don’t know Michelle, she’s the editor-brain, -heart, and -soul behind Just Like a Girl: A Manifesta! [1] and Growing Up Girl: An Anthology of Voices from Marginalized Spaces. She’s playing with my emotions because on her home page is this little teaser: Woman’s Work: [...]
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Tuesday, September 16th, 2008
Michelle at GirlChildPress is playing with my emotions. In case you don’t know Michelle, she’s the editor-brain, -heart, and -soul behind Just Like a Girl: A Manifesta! [1] and Growing Up Girl: An Anthology of Voices from Marginalized Spaces. She’s playing with my emotions because on her home page is this little teaser: Woman’s Work: [...]
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Monday, September 15th, 2008
So in the previous post, I was whining about self-imposed deadlines and being undisciplined. I checked in with my productivity partner, Yvette, to talk about what carrots we could effectively dangling in front our selves to keep to our deadlines. For myself, I came up with outings like “An Evening with Walter Mosley” next month, [...]
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Monday, September 15th, 2008
Aside from mothering, volunteering, talking about de-cluttering my house, and doing a tiny bit of actual de-cluttering, here’s what I’m working on: Freelancing: Pitching, researching, and interviewing (2 articles, possibly 3) Anthologies: Co-editing Down to the Wire (but the deadline’s not until December); waitinghopingpraying that Learning to Eat finds a publisher. Nonfiction: Drafting a book [...]
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Monday, September 15th, 2008
Aside from mothering, volunteering, talking about de-cluttering my house, and doing a tiny bit of actual de-cluttering, here’s what I’m working on: Freelancing: Pitching, researching, and interviewing (2 articles, possibly 3) Anthologies: Co-editing Down to the Wire (but the deadline’s not until December); waitinghopingpraying that Learning to Eat finds a publisher. Nonfiction: Drafting a book [...]
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