Category: bad news
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Why Wonder
To all the people feeling shock and anger over the five suicides by bullied gay youth, I ask, “What took you so long?” I also wonder where you have been. You’ve been thinking about other things. The media hasn’t reported on suicides like this before, but that doesn’t mean they haven’t been happening. Talk to…
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Publishers Behaving Badly
I got this note from a friend of mine yesterday and wanted to put it out there to warn other poets of this bad, bad behavior! “…” A couple hours after this was posted here and elsewhere, the publisher fixed the situation…
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The Pizza Tracker Tells Lies
Last night I ordered a pizza online from Domino’s (the California chicken one). I love ordering online because then you get this little status bar that tells you who has their grubby mitts all over your pizza and where it’s at in the process: “David starting preparing your pizza at 6:48 p.m.”“Your pizza is slowly…
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Alexander Chee posted this on Facebook: a capitalist response to the #amazonfail debacle. Yes, taking gay books—or any books—off the rankings list seriously limits how many will sell, but isn’t it up to the bookseller to decide what the market wants, what it will sell and how it will sell it? (More behind the link.)…
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Shhh….I’m not out to Amazon.com yet…
…because I still have a sales ranking: Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,145,270 in Books Or maybe because it’s ostensibly about a heterosexual romance that nobody’s noticed…except [news flash]: in real life, Maribel’s a dude!
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Persephone in Hell
Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt, two stars of the MTV reality series ” The Hills,” tied the knot in a secret ceremony last week. At the altar, the groom called his newlywed “the light in my life.” And the bride kept her parents in the dark. “The minute we said our vows, I couldn’t stop…
Charles Jensen | Writer 