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Beauty from Afar will be going online …

jss @ June 25, 2009 # No Comment Yet

I’d be interested in hearing from other authors who have put their books online. And, as I said — the rights to the book are mine and I am willing to entertain offers for what could very quickly become one of the most trafficked medical tourism sites on the Internet.

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Listen to Sister Susan

jss @ March 27, 2009 # No Comment Yet

Listen to Susan Campbell talk about her book, “Dating Jesus,” on NPR and you can probably tell how much fun it is to have her as a friend.
Connecticut Public Radio: Dating Jesus
Her blog is a fine hangout, too.

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Dating Jesus (?) by Susan Campbell

jss @ January 1, 2009 # No Comment Yet

It’s not so much an interrogatory as it is a book title. I just ordered it and am figuring, already, that it will be about my favorite book of 2009, or any other year, for that matter, because it’s written by Susan Campbell, who is brilliant and a friend of mine, besides. And she apparently [...]

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The Benchleys of Nantucket

jss @ June 11, 2008 # No Comment Yet

The “first” Robert Benchley was the one I thought I sort of knew, as much as you can know someone who died 11 years before you were born. He wrote brilliantly and hilariously for The New Yorker and Vanity Fair, won an Oscar and, by all accounts, acquitted himself with distinction at the Algonquin in [...]

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Last looks at Yahoo Adult Profiles …

jss @ April 2, 2008 # One Comment

Links in this post are NSW … but I can’t resist poking around a little to see just what Yahoo is going to be deleting when they blow away all the Adult Profile pictures.
You see, there is no actual site for Yahoo adult profiles, and they don’t show up in search engines. They’re just … [...]

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Yahoo! Verifies: Adult Profiles to be Eliminated

jss @ March 28, 2008 # One Comment

Update: It’s now April 10 and Yahoo has apparently not yet taken down adult profile photos or eliminated adult profiles. Nor have they said if they changed their minds. Though they have issued a clarification of their original clarification, neither of which clarified anything …
And … April 11. They did it. Rachel’s photo is [...]

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Yahoo to Eliminate ‘Adult’ Profiles !

jss @ March 27, 2008 # 9 Comments

This almost sounds as though it is an e-mail hoax, but it is not. And I wonder if the brainiacs at Yahoo have really thought all the way through about what they just told me they’re going to do.
From my inbox, two minutes ago:
“We’re making some changes that will affect one of your Yahoo! profiles. [...]

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Science Fiction … Dead or Alive?

jss @ March 17, 2008 # 3 Comments

I’ve yet to seriously attempt writing science fiction/fantasy for publication and I don’t know if I ever will, despite my love for the genre and the existence of a couple of plot sketches in the “ideas” folder on my computer. I haven’t really kept up with what is being done, even to the extent of [...]

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Well if The New York Times …

jss @ March 14, 2008 # No Comment Yet

… can manage to shunt the latest prostitution ring news off its front page, I certainly can’t leave it at the top of my blog, huh?
Nothing to see here about the governor of New York anymore. Nope. Or CYT (Cute Young Thing) “Kristin,” whose MySpace Page now has more than 7 million page views. One [...]

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New York Times Headlines …

jss @ March 12, 2008 # 2 Comments

The Times is a paper I love to hate. I read it. I expect greatness from it, since it is, after all, The New York Times. I am disappointed far too often and far more than I was years ago.
Maybe my standards keep going up. It is possible. I mean, *I* expect to keep [...]

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