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What with one thing and the other, we weren’t able to properly digest the fact that William Safire is leaving the New York Times. Unlike most, our first thought was what about “On Language”? It won’t surprise most of our readers to know we often disagree with Safire politically — and sometimes we disagreed with […]

How often is it that one website, on one day, manages to get us all worked up in three different ways? We like to think this is a relatively rare occurence — we’re really fine with self-delusion. It protects us from the stresses of modern life. So today, at Wired, we have a) an article […]

Arguably, the great romantic story of our youth was that of Luke and Laura. Do not pretend you don’t know what we mean. Though things began inauspiciously, we found ourselves rooting for these star-crossed…well, their triumph was ours. But Luke and Laura as an old married couple? Dull. It was the conflict, the battles, the […]

We inadvertently took this weekend off. All manner of things had piled up over the past few months, and we tackled some long overdue projects. Yes, finally, we got a haircut. Also, we made a huge mess in the kitchen right after the husband scrubbed the whole room to a suspicious gleam. Life was good. […]

Today was a bit exciting for us — it marked the third day we hit the gym this week (lack of exercise makes us dull and chubby). More to come on this. We also cleaned out our inbox. Usually we do this on Friday, but, well, see previous about the NaNo Villain in our life. […]

First, we agree there isn’t enough silence in this world. We especially direct that thought toward chronic cell phone users. You know who you are and you know what we mean. And we agree that too much of good thing can, depending on the good thing, be a) wonderful, or b) overwhelming in a scary […]

In 2001, near the end of her two-hour extravaganza at the FleetCenter, Janet Jackson left the stage for five unforgivable minutes before returning to perform an encore. Was she having zipper trouble? Was she topping off her chakra with fan love as required by her life coach or choreographer? A novice concertgoer would have been […]

We were very interested in the National Endowment for the Arts’s project focusing on writing projects for soldiers involved in the Iraq war. The NEA has expanded its Operation Homecoming project and has expanded its workshops to more military bases: “The program has been an overwhelming success. I don’t think the NEA fully appreciated the […]

Previously, we established it was a given that all literary agents are seeking quality, innovative work. Frankly, this makes our job much easier — we can start to focus our thoughts on what distinguishes one agency from another. One would think this is easy: they all have different names, ergo they are all different. Not […]

Kevin was understandably thrilled to learn he was villain number one as we fight against the clock. And, yes, there was some discussion about whether the clock might also be working against us, but we see it as more a plot device. A villain surely counts as something designed to destroy the calm, linear progression […]