04Jun08
Whose woods these are? Twenty-eight teens will soon know, though it's not like they didn't before. Like the time when they broke into Robert Frost's historic house and littered it with beer stains and bong water. It was a party! But they were caught and now are being sent to a poetry class on Frost at Middlebury College. A class like the one kids who drink in lesser-known woods actually pay for, only maybe better considering a prolific Frost biographer will teach it. The prosecutor rationalizes the punishment:
I guess I was thinking that if these teens had a better understanding of who Robert Frost was and his contribution to our society, that they would be more respectful of other people’s property in the future and would also learn something from the experience.
Robert Frost, sir, was a swinger of birch trees. He'd like to think some boy's been swinging on them. Surely, he would understand this is the modern-day equivalent.
Though wasn't he like a surly old bastard that commited all his kids to mental institutions? Oh. Ha! Writers.
03Jun08
Or more likely her ghostwriter. Galleycat now says:
Someone who knows all of M's staff" says "They were saying some big new project is happening in mid-July for M... I wouldn't be surprised if it's M's book WRITTEN BY HERSELF... Melissa was just the last straw... after that she decided to go ahead and do her own after that and get all the money/PR herself. If she worked on [it] in England it could have been kept quiet here. This is just my guess of course... but who else justifies at 350,000 first printing????
Oh, I see, a question mark for every zero!
Read related: Page Secrets!
02Jun08
Probably no one, but Jane Austen's hair is about to go for £5,000 at auction. The whisp of hair is woven into a weeping willow and sealed in a locket. And they think it's real! "Hairwork," according to the auctioneer, "became prominent in England from the early 1800s and flourished in the Victorian era." The hair was generally preserved in lockets and brooches. It is well documented, as it should be, that Jane's sister clipped a lock of her dead sister's hair before her coffin was closed. Awww. A lock for her locket.
02Jun08
There's some hush-hush "pop-culture" memoir with a huge first printing (350k) that's being glued together as I write. You will find it stacked high in gratuitous bookstore displays on July 15 and not a minute sooner because it's embargoed. This is just an insidery term for threatening stores tempted to sell the book before its on-sale date and creating Harry Potter-like excitement. And lines. It's really the only power publishing has left to wield.
Speculators suggest it's a tell-all by Madonna's ex-nanny; that sounds like something people buy!
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