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Just Shelley

Rejection

Oh these little rejections how they add up quickly One small sideways look and I feel so ungood Somewhere along the way I think I gave you the power to make Me feel the way I thought only my father could. Alanis Morissette, “So Unsexy” from Under Rug Swept   Rejection. Being last picked for […]

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Weblogging

Homeless blogs

Mike Golby ended one of his exceptional weblog postings with a rant: seems as if Blogger is misbehaving. Again. And when I clicked the permalink to copy the URL, the page below showed up. As Mike might say (just might, you know), seren-fucking-dipity. Blogspot is failing, and it seems as if Blogger isn’t much further behind. […]

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Just Shelley

The dubious distinction of being Shelley

Saturday, Jonathon posted that he’s now the top Jonathon in Google. He’s also the top ranked Delacour. Mark Pilgrim is top score for Mark as well as the top ranked Pilgrim. I checked my Google rank and found that I’ve dropped a spot and am now the number three Shelley at Google, behind Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and the Keats-Shelley Journal, […]

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Connecting

Happy birthday to my fowl partner

Every day in weblogging is made a little brighter, and a little screwier, by the presence of Stavros the Wonder Chicken. And I’m proud to count him as one of my closest friends. In a couple of hours, Stavros will be celebrating his birthday. Happy Birthday, dearest! (That dearest was purely platonic. Honest. Really. Cross my […]

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Weblogging

Bubble Bath Time

Take your hands off the keyboard, and back away slowly. I received this advice years ago in Boston, and it always resonates within me when someone I know makes a conscious decision to spend less time at (pick one) the computer/work/the computer at work, as Jeneane did this week when she went to a part-time work schedule: […]