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Mar.13.2012
Third female lawmaker introduces bill to limit men’s Viagra access
and this one's from OHIO, gang!! (Complete article is here.) (Below is from the Dayton Daily News)
Democratic Ohio state Senator Nina Turner has proposed that: "Before getting a prescription for Viagra or other erectile...
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Mar.11.2012
Okay, gang, this came by way of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (CBLDF).
It is a letter drafted by the American Book Sellers Foundation for Free Expression and the National Coalition Against Censorship, that has been signed by many free speech organizations. I reprint that letter here, in the...
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Mar.03.2012
Yes, the censorship issue continues to rankle and there is much upon which I could update you, but I'll save that for tomorrow. Today is Saturday, gang, and I just want to have fun!! (Well, that and I'm going to work all day!! Yay.)
In my ceaseless efforts to figure out what the hell is going on...
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Mar.01.2012
I guess that at age 51 and 1/2, I have had a longer childhood than most people have... ha ha. But, wow, how poignant to see that Davy Jones has passed away. So now my childhood is officially over.
(If you click on that link, you can access a cool slideshow of old photos of Davy, if you are into...
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Feb.28.2012
There is some progress being made.
Paypal is at least engaging in talks with Smashwords (and perhaps with other electronic publishers) and re-wording what their policies are in an effort to not make them so grandly sweeping. (For instance, going from zero tolerance to perhaps being reasonable-...
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Feb.25.2012
And I mean it.
On Wednesday, February 22nd, Barney Rosset died. I was too busy to blog about it at that moment, but I did tweet it out on twitter. So perhaps you saw. Or perhaps, you know, you have other sources for gathering pertinent news.
Anyway, Barney Rosset died. He was 89 and had...
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Feb.18.2012
If you are into utterly, utterly, UTTERLY stupid and ridiculous, insane and useless "high fashion" then you MUST get the March issue of W. It is the best issue I have seen of that magazine in many months!!
It is their special Spring Fashion issue. Make sure you get the one with Kate Moss...
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Feb.13.2012
(Continued from a whole bunch of days ago...)
It only got weirder. But first, it got more annoying. One of the onerous mass assumptions about self-published eBooks is their general lack of quality writing -- perhaps quality editing is more accurate, but the public only views the end result and...
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Feb.11.2012
Being a writer means various things. Sometimes it means you are deep into a 3 or 4 part series about Kindle and censorship when other writing projects need to take center stage and so, suddenly, you are exhausted and it is two days past when you said part three would be "continuing tomorrow...
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Feb.08.2012
(Continued from yesterday)
So I was lying in the dark, feeling persecuted... And then it occurred to me that no way is there an actual human being over at Amazon who is reading all these manuscripts from (virtual) cover to (virtual) cover; there are simply too many manuscripts and the reply came...
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Feb.07.2012
As usual, I am dumbfounded by reality.
As loyal readers of this lofty blog know so well by now: it doesn't take much to dumbfound me. I basically just have to get out of bed in the morning and that does it. I open my eyes, I encounter reality and I'm dumbfounded by it.
I could take you down...
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Feb.02.2012
The Muse Revisited is a specially-priced, three volume set of my early erotic stories and novellas.
Volume One, Early Erotica, is now available for download in all electronic formats on Smashwords for $1.99.
A Kindle edition is coming later this week.
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Jan.29.2012
But the Hallmark Channel is rapidly becoming my most favorite channel on earth!!
Why, you might ask?? [Insert your "why" here or something similar. Do not use this space for questions not pertaining to the Hallmark Channel.] [You can use this space to ask questions regarding my use of that...
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Jan.27.2012
No -- not me, personally! But another book I'm in!!
It is a "best of the best" collection from the Mammoth Book publishers, edited by Maxim Jakubowski.
For some reason, I can't find this yet on Amazon in the States, but it is available in the UK:
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Jan.26.2012
Dick Tufeld, voice of 'Lost in Space" robot, dies
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dick Tufeld, a radio and TV announcer best known as the voice of the robot in the 1960s television show "Lost in Space," has died. He was 85.
Mt. Sinai Memorial Parks says Tufeld died Sunday at home in the Studio City area of Los...
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About Marilyn Jaye
As a groundbreaking multi-media producer, author and editor, Marilyn Jaye Lewis has been interviewed on syndicated radio, Internet radio, cable television, and Canadian syndicated television. Her work was highlighted on HBO and received critical recognition...
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The Film Council of Greater Columbus, Columbus, OH
The Adrienne Shelley Foundation, NY, NY
Paralyzed Veterans of America, Washington, DC...