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    Right-Wing Press to Publish Right-Wing Beauty Queen's Right-Wing Book, Coos Right-Wing Blog

    From the Desk Of Emily Brill: Trenchant, Hand-Scrawled Gossip Girl Musings

    Good Morning, Here Is Lovely Poetry

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    Image of DoctorNine DoctorNine
    07/20/09

    In reply to Right-Wing Press to Publish Right-Wing Beauty Queen's Right-Wing Book, Coos Right-Wing Blog
    OK, let's get some perspective here, people. She's a beauty pagent queen. Her entire life is an amalgam of vapidness and insincerity, rolled into a mind numbing spliff with chintz and chiffon, and then smoked, via self-immolation, before an audience of cultural gourmands and insensate toads. Why is anyone giving her any attention at all? Does no one realize that this type of fluffy puppy is only bred to be LOOKED AT? One should never, never LISTEN to them. Gads.
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    Image of EatMyKant EatMyKant
    07/20/09

    In reply to Right-Wing Press to Publish Right-Wing Beauty Queen's Right-Wing Book, Coos Right-Wing Blog
    It's strange that she's, ahem, writing a book, to complain that her free speech was violated. Isn't publishing a book to protest a violation of the first amendment a little like killing yourself with a handgun to protest violations of the second amendment?
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    Hydroceph promoted this comment Edited by EatMyKant at 07/20/09 6:13 PM EatMyKant was starred EatMyKant was unstarred
    Image of Hydroceph Hydroceph
    07/20/09

    @EatMyKant: Both are just too meta for words. Big words. Words Prejean probably doesn't know the meaning of.
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    Image of City_Dater City_Dater
    07/20/09

    In reply to Right-Wing Press to Publish Right-Wing Beauty Queen's Right-Wing Book, Coos Right-Wing Blog
    Unless she's going to explain why she's orange and what on earth she's wearing in this photo, I couldn't possibly be less interested.
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    Image of Miss Anita Manbadly Miss Anita Manbadly
    07/20/09

    In reply to Right-Wing Press to Publish Right-Wing Beauty Queen's Right-Wing Book, Coos Right-Wing Blog
    Well thank Wikipedia for their crack reporting. A quick review of the company's entry is truly illuminating. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regnery_Publishing)
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    Image of DontMakeMe DontMakeMe
    07/20/09

    In reply to Right-Wing Press to Publish Right-Wing Beauty Queen's Right-Wing Book, Coos Right-Wing Blog
    Chapter 1. Opposite Lovin': U Will Not Facilitate This!!!
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    labyrinthine IS DOING THIS promoted this comment Edited by DontMakeMe at 07/20/09 4:27 PM DontMakeMe was starred DontMakeMe was unstarred
    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    07/20/09

    In reply to Right-Wing Press to Publish Right-Wing Beauty Queen's Right-Wing Book, Coos Right-Wing Blog
    A book that is being published in November of this year needs to be finished, like, right about now. So that means this book was cranked out by a ghostwriter in two months or so, by some poor slob who has been following the case, and now they'll shove it through the editing cycle (copy editing, proofreading, art) in about four weeks, tweak it a bit, then dump it at the printer's, for a late August/early September deadline.

    I pity the editor who has to work on a book like this so quickly, but if he or she works for Regnery, that person is probably already a miserable bitch, so nyah nyah, ha ha, your summer's fucked!
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    Image of Hydroceph Hydroceph
    07/20/09

    @BookishLookish: Gives new meaning to the term, "hired gun," does it not? Because that's probably what that poor schlub will be pointing at his or her own forehead before this craptacular missive is ready to go to press.
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    Image of kneetoe kneetoe
    07/20/09

    @BookishLookish: The story's so compelling, it wrote itself.
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    Image of skahammer skahammer
    07/20/09

    @BookishLookish: I'm still not convinced that this will be the kind of book that has pages and stuff.
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    Image of valet_of_the_dolls valet_of_the_dolls
    07/20/09

    @skahammer: It will have many pages. Some will feature glossy pictures; others will have scratch 'n' sniff stickers, and jumbles.
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    Image of Caius Caius
    07/20/09

    @valet_of_the_dolls:"On page 7, you can smell how unfairly Carrie was treated at that pageant. It has a robust bouquet of despair and disdain. Mixed with a hint of hairspray."
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    Image of valet_of_the_dolls valet_of_the_dolls
    07/20/09

    @Caius: You know who else smells like Aqua Net and drama? Drag queens!
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    Image of Nice Beaver Nice Beaver
    07/20/09

    In reply to Right-Wing Press to Publish Right-Wing Beauty Queen's Right-Wing Book, Coos Right-Wing Blog
    SPOILER ALERT: In Chapter XXIX, she deconstructs Emmanuel Levinas' criticism of Kierkegaard's religious beliefs through an imagined conversation between Sesame Street's Bert and Aretine, the physicist burned at the stake for falsifying in Dante's Inferno.
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    07/20/09

    @Nice Beaver: Pfft, more like Emmanuel Lewis's criticism of The Surreal Life.
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    Image of goetz goetz
    07/20/09

    In reply to Right-Wing Press to Publish Right-Wing Beauty Queen's Right-Wing Book, Coos Right-Wing Blog
    The title is inspired by a song of the same name from Noted Unwed Gay Elton John.
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    Image of Hydroceph Hydroceph
    07/20/09

    @goetz: I'd say it was ironically comedic, but i'm willing to bet Prejean's eyes would glaze over if i started chattering about literary modes.
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    Image of bytememehard bytememehard
    07/20/09

    In reply to Right-Wing Press to Publish Right-Wing Beauty Queen's Right-Wing Book, Coos Right-Wing Blog
    Is she Still Standing? I thought she'd been ousted. Oh, I get it, she's not sitting on the throne anymore, so she's standing.
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    Edited by bytememehard at 07/20/09 3:47 PM bytememehard was starred bytememehard was unstarred
    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    07/20/09

    In reply to Right-Wing Press to Publish Right-Wing Beauty Queen's Right-Wing Book, Coos Right-Wing Blog
    You can see all the stars as you walk down hollywood boulevard,
    Some that you recognise, some that youve hardly even heard of,
    People who worked and suffered and struggled for fame,
    Some who succeeded and some who suffered in vain.
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    Image of DahlELama DahlELama
    07/20/09

    @if_i_only_had_a_heart: So I think that what you're saying is that those of us who've been writing pretty much all of our lives but have failed to get anything published need to take this bitch down, and then haul ass to Lauren Conrad's house and do the same. Yes? No? Am I in the ballpark? I've never been very good at poetry.
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    Image of Conchie Birdie Conchie Birdie
    07/20/09

    @DahlELama: I'm not sure if that's what @if_i_only_had_a_heart was getting at but I'm with you. Count me in, just let me know when you've worked out the details.
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    Image of Hydroceph Hydroceph
    07/20/09

    @Conchie Birdie: Me, three. I'm not very coordinated, but big and fit, and that bitch is going DOWN.
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    Image of PaisleyPajamas PaisleyPajamas
    11/11/08

    In reply to From the Desk Of Emily Brill: Trenchant, Hand-Scrawled Gossip Girl Musings
    (she's Hamilton's favorite New York writer, for serious)


    Say it ain't so, Hammy!

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    Image of Carol Gardens Carol Gardens
    11/11/08

    In reply to From the Desk Of Emily Brill: Trenchant, Hand-Scrawled Gossip Girl Musings
    I do like the phrase "grow him a weeping willow." Other than that, her main critique seems to be that no one she knows treats the help so shabbily.
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    11/11/08

    In reply to From the Desk Of Emily Brill: Trenchant, Hand-Scrawled Gossip Girl Musings
    Richard, no way. Reading through chicken scratch like that, you gotta be getting paid or there has to be a very large comedic reward. Which I doubt there is.


    Purple ink on coral paper? I'd rather stab at my eyes with a pica ruler.

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    Image of es-ki-mo es-ki-mo
    11/11/08

    In reply to From the Desk Of Emily Brill: Trenchant, Hand-Scrawled Gossip Girl Musings
    If this is her attempt to steer traffic away from those sleeping puppies, it worked.
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    Image of Spirit Fingers Spirit Fingers
    11/11/08

    In reply to From the Desk Of Emily Brill: Trenchant, Hand-Scrawled Gossip Girl Musings
    The amount of un-harnessed mental vigor needed for watching Gossip Girl must, at least, be able to power a mechanical bull somewhere in Tuscaloosa.
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