imkittymyers at hotmail dot com
Wednesday, August 24, 2005
IN THE NEWS ...
INTERBLOGATORY HUMP DAY
LIP SERVICE: VINTAGE books is publishing a 50th-anniversary edition of Vladimir Nabokov's classic "Lolita" with its raciest cover yet — an up-close picture of a pair of moistened female lips. The carnally inclined cover will hit stores next month (the first edition of "Lolita" was published in France on Sept. 15, 1955). THIS is what they consider "raciest cover yet"? This one is worse for all its implications. And this one.
PhantomProfessor has been offering free writing classes. Today she posted this story. While others commented on the sorority aspect, I found it interesting that Prof's lesson this week deals with dialgue. Coinicidence? I think not :)
Circling the Fat (Spring semester): “Did you say fat circles? Is that like crop circles?” She laughs weakly. “No, it’s where they make girls they think are fat take off everything but their bra and panties and then they line us up and the older girls take Sharpie pens and they circle where we should lose weight.”
*