Posts by Jolisa
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As Oscar might have put it, we are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the majestic cantilevered bosoms. Uh, stars, I mean stars. Some of us are looking at the stars.
All right, and bosoms.
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How different would it be today? Front-page news in the Courier? SMALL BOY BITTEN BY VICIOUS DOG!
Man bites dog, now that would be news.
I notice no actual dogs have contributed to this thread. Presumably, despite the loss of small delicious ankles to gnaw on (hey, meals on wheels!), they're all delighted at the imminent demise of the hateful-rolled-up-object-for-whacking-them-on-the-nose-with-when-they're-just-being-extra-doggy-for-goodness-sake. It must feel like a repeal of some unspoken canine Section 59...
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IS, shouldn't you be over in Emma's thread? Oh wait, that's "lift and separate"... As you were.
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(srsly, ties, WTF?)
They're handles, aren't they? (Picture Joan Holloway towing some lucky lad in the direction of the midcentury bedroom).
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Old age has dimmed my memory...I'd forgotten that my baby-faced younger sibs were also subjected to child labour conditions. And the scary boss-lady, and the daily pick-up at the Scout Hall in the skanky park with the flashers and the glue-sniffers. All very character-building.
In fact, Gems, wasn't it you who got harassed by the bad dog?
I'll still swear on a stack of Tammy and Junes that the Girl magazines were yours, but :-P
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Gaah, sorry, I've fixed all my broken links now. Gosh-darned curly quotes: so cute on the printing press, so devilish in html.
Uh, FIRST!
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Two more reviews, both cautiously positive. In the Telegraph , Jane Shilling notes the book's "dazzling intensity" and says it is "devastating in its candour." Over at the Independent , Katy Guest winds up her review thus:
Whether or not the young man is an addict; whether his parents were right to expel him from their home; even whether it is fair to put a teenager's life into print: these are questions that will be addressed in news and columns and television discussion shows for some time to come. But if the question is whether a woman has a right to tell a story that is also, actually, her own – a book reviewer can only say yes. And add that anyone who reads it will struggle not to be profoundly moved.
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First review of the book itself, rather than just the people involved, at the Guardian.
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So, that Listener article - would someone consider ripping out and mailing me a copy in return for, I dunno, a homemade patisserie treat at such time as we are co-located?
Amy, I have that issue! I thought I'd recycled it but rediscovered it under a pile of New Yorkers. Will gladly mail it to you - article or whole issue if you like - in exchange for you NOT taking me to Moosewood next time I'm up that way... Patisserie treats, penguin-shaped or otherwise, gladly!
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How curious. That's the second time in as many days I've seen the name Wackenhut. The previous one being an account of yet another disgraced moneyman, who lived in the 18,000-square-foot, 57-room Wackenhut Castle, which boasted a "moat, tower, pub and a man-made cliff" -- until he demolished it to make way for an even more grandiose establishment.
Funny how castles and prisons look rather similar.