I posted my thoughts about Saddam's execution over on Cricket Frog with a cross-post on Bullfrog at Townhall.com. Townhall is full of such blog entries this morning, as is to be expected. One such blogger, going by the name "The Rogue Jew" had some funny lines in his entry:
I wish the guy would learn to use the work-around for block quotes. The template he and I use, for whatever reason, has a block quote button that doesn't work. However, he can still highlight the paragraph, and use the paragraph indent button. It accomplishes the same thing, which is to make it clear what are quotes vs. his own commentary.
Hopping along to another topic, I hit pay dirt last night with a Yahoo! Search on Nickolaus Pacione, the awful self-published horror writer. Not only did I find a rejection letter from Jim Baen's Universe to his submitted short story "Flying Cigars" (rejected within three days, no less!), but also the full text of the latest short story he got picked up by two magazines that have yet to actually publish it. The latter is called "Spectral Exile," and was posted at Spinetinglers, a UK forum board, complete with unflattering comments by a number of people, none of whom is I.
I have to wonder about the quality of submissions when sh!t like that gets picked up for publication. The very first sentence made no grammatical sense whatsoever! It wasn't worth my time ripping the story to shreds, but putting on my Widdle cap, I did take five minutes to rewrite his first three paragraphs. In addition to losing well over half the words, I lost nothing of his original meaning, assuming I followed the guy's disconnected thoughts. The whole thing is filled with sentence fragments, incomplete thoughts, and unrelated thoughts cobbled together in single sentences. This is extremely typical of his writing. If I can follow James Joyce, I should certainly be able to follow Pacione, but I find it quite a struggle.
- Breaking New- Saddam Hussein Is A Well Hung Dictator
- Or Shall we call him a Dope on a Rope. Possibly a new gift Idea for the next Muslim Holiday!
- I pray that G-d sees fit that the “virgins” awaiting Saddam in hell resemble Helen Thomas, Hillary Clinton and Janet Reno!
I wish the guy would learn to use the work-around for block quotes. The template he and I use, for whatever reason, has a block quote button that doesn't work. However, he can still highlight the paragraph, and use the paragraph indent button. It accomplishes the same thing, which is to make it clear what are quotes vs. his own commentary.
Hopping along to another topic, I hit pay dirt last night with a Yahoo! Search on Nickolaus Pacione, the awful self-published horror writer. Not only did I find a rejection letter from Jim Baen's Universe to his submitted short story "Flying Cigars" (rejected within three days, no less!), but also the full text of the latest short story he got picked up by two magazines that have yet to actually publish it. The latter is called "Spectral Exile," and was posted at Spinetinglers, a UK forum board, complete with unflattering comments by a number of people, none of whom is I.
I have to wonder about the quality of submissions when sh!t like that gets picked up for publication. The very first sentence made no grammatical sense whatsoever! It wasn't worth my time ripping the story to shreds, but putting on my Widdle cap, I did take five minutes to rewrite his first three paragraphs. In addition to losing well over half the words, I lost nothing of his original meaning, assuming I followed the guy's disconnected thoughts. The whole thing is filled with sentence fragments, incomplete thoughts, and unrelated thoughts cobbled together in single sentences. This is extremely typical of his writing. If I can follow James Joyce, I should certainly be able to follow Pacione, but I find it quite a struggle.
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