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    Image of Valerie Flame Valerie Flame
    11/04/09

    Jessica Alba at The New York Times

    #stalker [gawker.com] #thenewyorktimes #hottype
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    Image of DevilsAvocado DevilsAvocado
    01/16/09

    In reply to Dr. Doom Can't Escape His Party-Boy Rep
    I'm not convinced by his 'little bit crazy and casual fun-loving anarchist' loose tie-knot.


    *Sigh*. I miss the ol' double Windsor.

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    Image of ADismalScience ADismalScience
    01/16/09

    In reply to Dr. Doom Can't Escape His Party-Boy Rep
    Faber is Dr. Doom. This Roubini guy is one of the least significant economists to wear the title. And honestly, he loses points for creativity in everything save his decorating taste. Wall-vulvae are unique, I suppose.
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    01/16/09

    @ADismalScience: Dis, don't ever let me see you type "vulvae" again! That is hideous, my young friend!
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    01/16/09

    @BookishLookish★: Hear hear. We of the Vaginati sill not stand for it.
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    Image of StabbyRipStabStab StabbyRipStabStab
    01/16/09

    In reply to Dr. Doom Can't Escape His Party-Boy Rep
    [www.encyclopediadramatica.com]
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    01/16/09

    @StabbyRipStabStab: Whoa. That was a rickroll with a half twist. First you get the one two punch of "Haha Fuck you" then rolled over to the Yellowpages.
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    Image of Private Hangnail Private Hangnail
    01/16/09

    In reply to Dr. Doom Can't Escape His Party-Boy Rep
    He's smiling, sure, but that is the smile of a man who is imagining how to choke the life out of a certain thick-necked American and his goddamn party video. Then maybe popping home to shine his vagina wall.
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    Image of Iceland Spar Iceland Spar
    01/16/09

    @Private Hangnail: That was less a smile than a baring of clenched teeth.
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    Image of levari levari
    11/09/08

    In reply to Times Critics' Five Worst Lines About Children's Books
    i freakin' loved sambo, and i hate that i am made to feel all post-colonial oppressive for liking it an babar. well, okay, i never really liked babar, but probably dr. doolittle or something. enough with the humorless hyperanalytic bullshit; just read the damn things. they won't mean a thing if they ain't got that swing, and the kids will know what they like--and so will you.

    says me, who named my child after a maurice sendak character and is now getting exactly what i deserve.
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    Image of easy_on_the_cheek_please easy_on_the_cheek_please
    11/08/08

    In reply to Times Critics' Five Worst Lines About Children's Books
    Is it wrong that I just want to curl up and read Little Black Sambo?
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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    11/08/08

    In reply to Times Critics' Five Worst Lines About Children's Books
    Can we have some love for Ferdinand the Bull and The Velveteen Rabbit?
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    Image of MistyVixx MistyVixx
    11/08/08

    In reply to Inside The 'Times' Hardcover Bestseller List
    Are there any thrillers that aren't semi-shlocky? I want to know because that's my genre ( I wrote TSAR) and I'd like to know. Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park. Alan Furst?

    Alastair McLean? E.A. Poe? Just curious. Crazy about this discussion and find it hilarious and I'm not thin-skinned so tell the truth. I need to hear it. I don't READ
    many thrillers by the way I just write them. My favorite books last year were SATURDAY by Ian McEwan and SEAMANSHIP by Adam Nicolson, for example.
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    Image of Xylo Xylo
    11/08/08

    In reply to Times Critics' Five Worst Lines About Children's Books
    The fastest way to make myself feel better when I am feeling blue, is to head for a bookstore with a good children's section, pick a pile of books off the shelves, sit down on one of those tiny chairs and read, laugh and cry. Aahhhhhhhhhh.
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    Image of marymaryquitecontrary marymaryquitecontrary
    11/08/08

    @Xylo: you've seen me in Chapters, haven't you? Puff The Magic Dragon and The Giving Tree reduce me to a blubbering mess every time.
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    Image of Xylo Xylo
    11/08/08

    @marymaryquitecontrary: Awwww, yeah, like that. I think I left snot trails in my wake the day I discovered "Can't You Sleep, Little Bear?" years ago.
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    Image of VanCinyras VanCinyras
    11/08/08

    In reply to Times Critics' Five Worst Lines About Children's Books
    Kakapo- I'm with you. I suppose I'm a tad biased, being a children's librarian. But here's the thing- there is some amazing children's and teen literature out there. And very often, it is dismissed by the "literary world" as less than serious. That is a shame. While some of the Times reviews are surely pompous (it's the Times), I'm nevertheless happy to see children's lit in the spotlight. :)
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    Image of brionity brionity
    11/08/08

    In reply to Times Critics' Five Worst Lines About Children's Books
    My favorite book was "My Puppy Puddles."


    I can only imagine the psychological implications of being pee shy...

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    Image of Kakapo Kakapo
    11/08/08

    In reply to Times Critics' Five Worst Lines About Children's Books
    Hmmm... I don't even find the tone patronizing. They just sound like New York Times reviews. What style of review would you suggest?
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    Image of BeRightBack BeRightBack
    11/08/08

    @Kakapo: I'm with you. I didn't see the problem with the quotes. The reviews aren't written for children, after all.
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    Image of Kakapo Kakapo
    11/08/08

    In reply to Times Critics' Five Worst Lines About Children's Books
    I'll be odd man out here and say that it doesn't seem at all ridiculous to write soberly and seriously about children's literature. None of the reviews quoted here are great writing, but none struck me as particularly laughable, either.
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    Image of Tammany_Fall Tammany_Fall
    11/08/08

    In reply to Times Critics' Five Worst Lines About Children's Books
    She said that the text (?) "has the FEELING of giving the right words in the right order with the right pacing." As opposed to just saying that it DOES, which wouldn't be, you know, profound. Such as.
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