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  • She’s The Woman In The Short Red Skirt With The Curly Hair

    Number of comments: 6
    In a post a few down from this one, a poor unhinged man is hiding behind an alias and hurling invective at me and some others because we criticized something he wrote for The Huffington Post. His biggest card to play–this man in his fifties–is to call me “fat”. The [...]
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    Posted: December 17, 2009, 1:38pm EST
    by Katherine Coble

  • Living In A Foreign Country

    Number of comments: 3
    I was going through old magazines and got distracted by a story in an issue of Good Housekeeping from several months ago. The more I read, the more amazed I got. The author, Kym Croft Miller (whose first and middle names are together so similar to my nom de guerre [...]
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    Posted: December 16, 2009, 9:10am EST
    by Katherine Coble

  • Free Magazines

    Number of comments: 2
    Okay. Someone explain something to me here. When did “Magazine” stop meaning “bunches of glossy pages stapled together mixing light reading and colourful advertising” and start meaning “Junk E-mail”? Because I’ve signed up for some Free Magazines for arthritis sufferers. And I was expecting to get, you know, [...][...]
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    Posted: December 15, 2009, 9:53am EST
    by Katherine Coble

  • The Most Overused Emotion In This Decade

    Number of comments: 7
    Last week a story broke in this town about a controversial local figure. He stands accused in the media of doing something violent and hypocritical. Whether those accusations are true, false or somewhere in between is not something I’d be prepared to answer–even if I could. I have my [...][...]
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    Posted: December 14, 2009, 9:43am EST
    by Katherine Coble

  • Julie & Julia & Mycropht

    Number of comments: 1
    When I first heard about the movie version of Julie & Julia my reaction was one of dread. I’m a blogger. Julie Powell is also a blogger, but one who was able to parlay her blog into a best-seller and a movie starring Meryl Streep. She managed to do what [...]
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    Posted: December 12, 2009, 5:06pm EST
    by Katherine Coble

  • Dear Woman In Olive Garden

    I know you think your little girl is adorable. I also know that Chap Stik is relatively inexpensive. But when you watch your two-year-old smear great big globs of Chap Stik on the bench where other people are going to sit, the least you could do is clean it up. [...]
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    Posted: December 11, 2009, 7:52pm EST
    by Katherine Coble

  • {EDITED TITLE} Some Of My Best Friends Are Books

    Number of comments: 10
    I honestly don’t know if I know how to write this post. I’ve already started it three times in my head and once on the blog, a whole sentence typed and ready to go about how sick I am. But most people already know that. A few minutes ago I [...]
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    Posted: December 10, 2009, 3:13pm EST
    by Katherine Coble

  • My Constant Child

    I’ve been taking a break from writing to allow my brain to refresh. It’s been a nice break, but I’m awfully glad to be back among the clackety-clack of the keyboard. A friend posted a thought on Facebook a few minutes ago that sent me off on a tangent. Since [...]
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    Posted: December 09, 2009, 11:28pm EST
    by Katherine Coble

  • How I Ruined Christmas For Paulina Salvador

    Number of comments: 2
    My parents don’t believe in lying. My mother is almost fanatical about always telling the truth, no matter what. That’s why they decided to never tell me there was a Santa Claus. In Mom’s view at the time, Santa was fake, and telling kids about Santa was the [...][...]
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    Posted: December 03, 2009, 4:38pm EST
    by Katherine Coble

  • The Christmas Vulva

    Number of comments: 3
    I finally did it. I finally was able to put my finger on exactly what’s bugging me about this particular Holiday season. In case I haven’t been perfectly clear on this, I’m a stickler for calling things by their right names. While I give nicknames to family members and parts of [...]
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    Posted: December 03, 2009, 4:07am EST
    by Katherine Coble

  • Kat Atonia

    Number of comments: 5
    I guess now we know how to shut me up. Just make me say an impossible amount of things in an aggressively short timeline. Then my brain will turn to goo and my normally-verbose self will just.stop.talking. I bet my parents wish they’d known this cure many many years ago. My [...]
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    Posted: December 02, 2009, 4:51am EST
    by Katherine Coble

  • The Universe Is Conspiring For Me This Time

    One of the carrots I dangled in front of myself during NaNoWriMo–besides the warm-fuzzy of self-discipline and focus–was that when I was done I could dive into Susan Wiggs‘ Lakeshore Christmas on my Kindle. Her books are always my go-to reading when I either need complete escape or total reward. [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 3:32pm EST
    by Katherine Coble

  • That Bloody Gap Ad & The War On Christmas

    Number of comments: 10
    This is a blog post I should not be writing, but my brain needs to take a break. I have really had less than no patience with this whole War On Christmas business for the last couple of years. Over on Facebook I have gotten a slap dozen requests asking [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 11:45pm EST
    by Katherine Coble

  • Kat O’ Nine Tales

    Number of comments: 4
    If I had to list my worst traits, right at the top of that long recounting you would see “poor self-discipline.” When I was a kid I was the sort of nerdy awful child who got As in school without trying. Until about sixth grade, when I started to hit [...]
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    Posted: November 28, 2009, 5:29pm EST
    by Katherine Coble

  • YIKES!

    Number of comments: 3
    It’s technically Thanksgiving when I write this, but I don’t want anyone to stumble on here and get mad at me for posting such self-serving weirdness (different from every other day how?) on the holiday, so I’m post-dating it. After the fiasco with Rapunzel’s off-putting photo from the other day I’m [...]
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    Posted: November 27, 2009, 12:55am EST
    by Katherine Coble

  • Love. Pure Book-Geek Love.

    I’ve been ripping on book trailers lately. Because they’re odd. Really. But this? This is a thing of unparalleled beauty. Check it out. Hat Tip: Gizmodo by way of my quasi-anonymous-on-the-web spouse. [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 12:29pm EST
    by Katherine Coble

  • Calvinism Forces Me To Think About Time Travel

    Number of comments: 2
    As I said on Twitter, I do my best thinking in the shower. But I usually take baths. Anyway, today I was in the shower and I was mulling over the one verse in the Bible that always gives me trouble when it comes to Calvinism. If you wanna read [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 12:23pm EST
    by Katherine Coble

  • It’s Not Like I’m Out Of Ideas. I’m Just Succumbing To Peer Pressure.

    Number of comments: 1
    Since I’m three thousand words behind on NaNo, this is going to be a quick post. I was going to write the standard ‘things I’m thankful for’ post, but in all reality if I started to list the things for which I am thankful it would be like that one [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 5:57am EST
    by Katherine Coble

  • Ooooh, Shiny!

    Number of comments: 7
    1. I called and reported the nurse. Now every time I go back I’m gonna get roundly abused. Oh well. 2. Yes, I’m supposed to be writing. And while this is writing, it’s not Writing writing. Eh. 3. Meet my lovely pet Rapunzel. (warning: She’s a [...] [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 2:02pm EST
    by Katherine Coble

  • Random Things I Need To Get Off My Chest

    Number of comments: 6
    1. Jonathan Safron Foer can kiss my meat-fed butt. But I will give him credit for ONE thing. He has been able to artfully combine TWO types of people that make me wish I could still pull a trigger with ease. You know that post I just wrote about [...][...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 10:28am EST
    by Katherine Coble

  • Knocking Books Off Their High Horse

    Number of comments: 2
    If there’s one thing this month has taught me, it’s that I’ve spent too much of my life idolizing books. Not in the “Oh, I really like books” way, but in the “books are EVERYTHING to me” way that is the road to danger. Not only does the idolising of [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 2:44am EST
    by Katherine Coble

  • Jon And Kate; Ananias And Sapphira

    Number of comments: 1
    I’m still not sure if I’ve done the right thing posting this. I seldom if ever have second thoughts about what I write here. But if you read this once and come back to find it gone, I apologise. This is a hard issue for me to write about. A year [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 10:03pm EST
    by Katherine Coble

  • Of All The Things To Forget…

    Number of comments: 6
    Lunch money. Early morning meetings. Extra #2 pencils for a test. Your grandmother’s birthday (November 17.) There are a ton of things I can imagine a person forgetting. I myself forget things a lot lately–just another happy side-effect of My Furry Little Problem. But seriously. I don’t mean to sound judgemental, [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 11:56am EST
    by Katherine Coble

  • Mama’s Got A Squeezebox: The Mammogram Controversy

    Number of comments: 5
    In what I have always considered one of the best uses of the blog medium, Rachel Walden maintains an excellent site dedicated to news and discussion about women’s health. This weekend she has a terrific roundup of writings about the Mammogram Controversy that I would consider a must-read for every [...]
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    Posted: November 22, 2009, 5:57pm EST
    by Katherine Coble

  • I Plan To Drive My Husband And Dog Insane

    In the past three days my productivity at writing has increased by about 300%. What is it? Caffeine? Drugs? No. It is a shareware program called Typewriter Keyboard. It makes my Mac sound EXACTLY like the old Corona electric I learned on. Enough so that whenever I have [...][...]
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    Posted: November 22, 2009, 1:04pm EST
    by Katherine Coble

  • Red Headed Step Child Foams At The Mouth

    It happened again. I signed up for something called “Nashville Almost Free” where they mail you cool coupons for local businesses. The catch seems to be that you get email on a daily basis advertising local businesses. Not too shabby, really. But then the company–Savvy Avenue–behind this project asked me to [...]
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    Posted: November 21, 2009, 2:22am EST
    by Katherine Coble

  • Social Media Ruined My Christmas

    Number of comments: 1
    I am married to a man for whom buying gifts is impossibly hard. His gifts are usually things we buy together so that he can make sure to get the exact right thing. This year I found something perfect for him. I friend of mine told about a book she was [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 11:41pm EST
    by Katherine Coble

  • Jesus Didn’t Die For You

    Number of comments: 10
    I was drabbling down my Facebook feed, trying to see if people who weren’t drugged up and crippled are out there doing interesting things. (Answer: no.) I found this. “Youre a postmodern Christian if you wouldnt be surprised to see Ghandi in heaven but would be floored to find Jerry Falwell” [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 11:04am EST
    by Katherine Coble

  • If It Isn’t Rough It Isn’t Fun

    Number of comments: 3
    I came down to my desk to work and blare The best non-Steinman album ever. (I saw someone on Sunday who is from Ashtabula, Ohio and ever since then I’ve had various lines rolling through my head) . That doesn’t explain why I’ve spent the last 20 minutes over on YouTube [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 10:34am EST
    by Katherine Coble

  • Katherine, Achilles And The Tortoise

    Number of comments: 1
    They may have been refuted by great minds to come later, but I still think the Paradoxes of Zeno are some of the most elegant ideas. My favourites are theTortoise and Achilles and it’s identical cousin, The Race. Both of them say that you can never finish the course because [...]
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    Posted: November 17, 2009, 12:24am EST
    by Katherine Coble

  • Why Should We Be Living By Your Agenda?

    Number of comments: 3
    I was skimming my news feed in Facebook just now and looked over into the sidebar. Right under the nagging ’suggestions’ (You haven’t talked to Dennis O’Brien on Facebook lately! Send him a message!) was an ad that read Obama asks moms to return to school. Finish your degree – Financial [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 8:58pm EST
    by Katherine Coble

  • Did Jesus Have The Weirdest Torso Ever?

    Number of comments: 3
    The front and all interior doors in my house are what I’ve always called “six panel doors”; instead of being a flat sheet of wood or metal they have two square and four rectangular shapes debossed in them to give a more colonial feel. Supposedly they increase the resale value [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 10:51am EST
    by Katherine Coble

  • STOP PROCRASTINATING

    Number of comments: 3
    I couldn’t sleep because of the evil Keeblers gnawing on my toes. It’s a bad day for feet. So I got up to work on my novel. That was an hour ago. I have: –answered two emails –bandied words in the Goodreads librarian forum. (Turns out that if you [...][...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 11:53pm EST
    by Katherine Coble

  • Vroom-Vroom

    Today we bought tires and our thanksgiving turkey. God bless the fine people of CostCo, where both of those things were at a good price; priced low enough to buy us a thousand pounds of crackers, two hundred and fifty million batteries, some crab legs, some steaks and two hotdogs [...]
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    Posted: November 15, 2009, 1:36am EST
    by Katherine Coble

  • I Am Authoring Mushrooms

    Number of comments: 2
    I am heartily loving National Novel Writing Month more than I ever thought I would. I know it’s been around forever, but I’m this year I’m finally ready for it. It’s a great inspiration to have scads of other people all going through the same motions, motivated by a belief [...]
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    Posted: November 13, 2009, 1:52am EST
    by Katherine Coble

  • Not Funny ‘haha’

    I just spent 9 minutes trying to get the cover back on my wireless mouse after I replaced the batteries. Just one of the twenty million things you never think about until you get arthritis. [...]
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    Posted: November 12, 2009, 12:33pm EST
    by Katherine Coble

  • Does My Husband Still Live Here?

    Number of comments: 1
    This is the Sales Summit week at his job, and so he gets home late and exhausted every night. Which is cool with me, but I just realised now that I think I’ve seen him a grand total of three hours in four days. This must be what it’s like [...]
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    Posted: November 11, 2009, 3:23pm EST
    by Katherine Coble

  • I Am The Villain

    You know you’re doing something right when someone puts you into their story as one of the villains. Apparently I am lending my name and emotional likeness to some sort of space pirate hooker or whatever this person’s novel is about. And all because I made one of my usual [...]
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    Posted: November 11, 2009, 3:42am EST
    by Katherine Coble

  • Damned Keebler Elves

    Number of comments: 4
    Years ago some hospital made a video game for kids with cancer or some other disease. It was basically something like Space Invaders where the invaders were the disease and the kids got to picture themselves killing the cause of their illness. The researchers said the kids who played the [...]
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    Posted: November 09, 2009, 1:32pm EST
    by Katherine Coble

  • Sorry. Just Had To Share.

    Number of comments: 2
    I don’t put my fiction on here, and more than likely never will. (If I ever put fiction in large chunks on the internet it will have its own blog so that I don’t have scope creep on this here site.) But I just really like this bit I wrote [...]
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    Posted: November 06, 2009, 12:14am EST
    by Katherine Coble

  • Did You Hear That It Was Some Muslim Dude?

    I was in the hospital for 8 hours today. My doctor was in surgery so the nurse–ever vigilant against lawsuits–sent me to the ER. When I was waiting to be seen the news broke about the Ft. Hood shooting. CNN called it ‘a major incident.’ Who uses the [...][...]
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    Posted: November 06, 2009, 12:07am EST
    by Katherine Coble

  • All The Letters Are My Babies, All The Sentences Are My Mark

    Number of comments: 3
    A week or so ago I learned something grave and disturbing about myself that I’m not quite ready to put into print. But it has definitely changed the world for me, in that I heard a door slam loudly. Even though I had mostly closed it myself it was still [...]
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    Posted: November 05, 2009, 11:04am EST
    by Katherine Coble

  • Tweedy Patches and Meerschaum Pipes

    Number of comments: 1
    I knew a guy who smoked a pipe in the breakroom at work when we were at the travel agency. It was a total affectation, but I kind of admired him for it. It was his way of saying “look, I’m an intellectual in a sea of normalcy.” And also [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2009, 12:59pm EST
    by Katherine Coble

  • The Most Over-Exposed Pussy In Modern Day

    Number of comments: 1
    I just got done reading Flashforward, the book upon which the TV show was based. And it was awesome, the first truly unputdownable book I’ve had my hands on in weeks. I swore I’d bug everyone I know to read it, but settled with putting that here on my blog [...]
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    Posted: November 03, 2009, 11:57am EST
    by Katherine Coble

  • Last Night I Slept With A Celebrity

    Number of comments: 5
    Yes, I know I’m married. But I just couldn’t resist. I mean, you see a guy in a movie and something about seeing him on the big screen, bandying with a hot movie star makes him irresistable. Even to me, a woman who takes her wedding vows seriously. [...][...]
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    Posted: November 02, 2009, 6:41am EST
    by Katherine Coble

  • Oh, Who Am I Kidding?

    Number of comments: 8
    I was 402 words into a post on the dreadful state of book publishing, inspired by an article in this week’s Entertainment Weekly that talked about how all the Books That Were Going To Save The Business This Autumn…haven’t. But as I kept typing I realised that I had nothing [...]
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    Posted: October 30, 2009, 10:13am EDT
    by Katherine Coble

  • Forever In Blue Jeans

    Number of comments: 2
    Neil Diamond is one of my favourites. I first heard “Forever In Blue Jeans” when I was thirteen or fourteen. I knew pretty much as soon as I heard it that it described the kind of love life I wanted. If I were to bother getting together with another person [...]
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    Posted: October 28, 2009, 10:02pm EDT
    by Katherine Coble

  • The Hookers, The Obamas, New Zealand And Alton Brown

    Number of comments: 3
    Let me start by saying I have no idea what is wrong with my brain. I did take Benadryl before bed, but last time I checked Benedryl is not made from LSD. So I have no idea what those extended dreams were about. But in my sleep I was in this [...]
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    Posted: October 27, 2009, 12:26pm EDT
    by Katherine Coble

  • How Much Is That Doggie In Your Hair, Ma’am?

    Number of comments: 1
    To add insult to injury… One of the latest permutations of my ongoing biological mess is some very bad open sores on my scalp. (Yeah, I know. Could it get any worse? I feel like a Chevelle.) So I had to get this special shampoo to treat the scalp problem. Whaddya [...]
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    Posted: October 26, 2009, 3:28pm EDT
    by Katherine Coble

  • I Think I May Throw UP

    New Jersey Democrat Bob Andrews believes that the Constitution grants Congress Police Power. Meet the new King. Same as the Old King. [...]
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    Posted: October 26, 2009, 11:25am EDT
    by Katherine Coble

  • Bones On The Ground

    Number of comments: 4
    I can’t build a whole body today. None of my thoughts are gelling into a whole post. Speaking of which, EW used that word this week and spelled it “jelling”. Huh. 1.Aunt B. has a good post today about the Myth of the Reasonable Discussion. It’s about the immigration [...][...]
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    Posted: October 26, 2009, 11:01am EDT
    by Katherine Coble

  • The New Baby Has Arrived

    Number of comments: 7
    I haven’t thought of a name for him yet. In fact, I’ve just now decided on gender. Anything this big and flashy has to be male. I have a new iMac. Brand new. As in they just were announced on Tuesday. I’m still in the “pinch me, I’m dreaming” [...][...]
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    Posted: October 24, 2009, 1:18pm EDT
    by Katherine Coble

  • Screw You, Dr. House!

    I find many of my thoughts echoed today over at Disabled Feminists. The hoops we disabled people have to go through for basic medical care…thanks to politicians and TV writers…seem to be universal. [...]
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    Posted: October 23, 2009, 4:57pm EDT
    by Katherine Coble

  • Celente And The Coming Riots In The Street

    Number of comments: 9
    Until yesterday morning I was blissfully unaware of this Gerald Celente guy. I tripped over him like a rock in the undertow when surfing the web for information about the B&N Nook Reader. People were quoting him, saying the recession was far from over, that there is going to mass [...]
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    Posted: October 23, 2009, 2:13pm EDT
    by Katherine Coble

  • The Nook: The Ashton Kutcher Of E-book Readers

    Number of comments: 9
    Just a few moments ago I checked my email only to see Barnes and Noble taunting me with the Nook Now, we all know I’ve declared undying love for my Kindle, and have spent lo these six months stuffing it full of everything from academic reading (to prove I’m deep) [...]
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    Posted: October 22, 2009, 11:04am EDT
    by Katherine Coble

  • There’s Nashville and Then There’s “Naahhshville”

    Number of comments: 10
    My wonderful friend the wonderful writer Aunt B. populated a good portion of the Best Of Nashville 2009 issue of the Scene, adding her warm and open take on the the things she thinks other Nashvillians should know about (including the fantastic blog by one of my other friends, Rachel [...]
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    Posted: October 15, 2009, 3:13pm EDT
    by Katherine Coble

  • Oops! My BAD! The Walk Of Shame For President Obama Goes Viral

    Number of comments: 4
    There’s a website out there called “I’m sorry I voted for Obama” Dot Com. It everything you need in the modern age to create a groundswell of fluffily empty phlegm–namely bumperstickers and a clever logo. The ABOUT page claims that it’s just a bunch of emo web developers who want [...]
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    Posted: October 13, 2009, 1:02pm EDT
    by Katherine Coble

  • This Drives Me Absolutely Penis

    Number of comments: 10
    If you are under 13, good. Stay here and learn this now, because body parts are body parts and the more you know about them the less scary they are. The less scary the less likely you are to misunderstand and misuse them. Really, though, I know most people who [...]
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    Posted: October 13, 2009, 9:48am EDT
    by Katherine Coble

  • Lipstink

    Number of comments: 4
    I fully expect this post to get me forever kicked out of the Showtunes Geek Club. Even though I met 99% of the requirements, I can’t write this post and stay a member in good standing. Sure I’ve sung the entire Andrew Lloyd Weber/Tim Rice repertoire into a knitting-needle faux [...]
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    Posted: October 12, 2009, 10:24pm EDT
    by Katherine Coble

  • Fringe and Flashforward

    Guess what I watched on TiVo this weekend? I am the worst sort of tv blogger in that most of my shows I watch long after they’ve aired. By the time I get around to them the water in the cooler is room temp. We were picked as a Nielsen [...]
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    Posted: October 12, 2009, 3:49pm EDT
    by Katherine Coble

  • Let’s Talk Television

    Number of comments: 8
    Thursday nights are the best showcases for TV these days. Most of my appointment television ends up there…Bones, Fringe, Community, The Office. I think FlashForward is also there, but since I watch it on TiVo I’m not sure of what day it’s on. The Mentalist, while not one [...][...]
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    Posted: October 09, 2009, 10:02am EDT
    by Katherine Coble

  • Swirlie

    Man, do I have a bunch of thoughts swirling around in my brain. They’re like tiny multicoloured gnats zooming confusedly in my skull. This is why I write a blog. And this is also why I miss writing regularly on my blog. In the five years and [...][...]
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    Posted: October 09, 2009, 9:43am EDT
    by Katherine Coble

  • The Origins Of A Thing

    First off, let me make some grand excuse for abandoning my blog while my poor computer is in the shop. I’ve taken to borrowing my husband’s computer when he’s not using it. I feel like a crackhead begging a taste. It’s now officially October and that means that I am [...]
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    Posted: October 07, 2009, 3:12pm EDT
    by Katherine Coble

  • Goddess Grate

    Number of comments: 3
    I still pray before eating when I sit at a table. When I eat in front of the tv I sometimes dive right into my food. My life has changed so much in the last 39 years. I’m nowhere near what I thought I would be when I was younger [...]
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    Posted: September 29, 2009, 12:55pm EDT
    by Katherine Coble

  • The Trilling Wire In The Blood

    The trilling wire in the blood sings below inveterate scars appeasing long-forgotten wars —TS Eliot: Burnt Norton, Stanza II Four Quartets My father now jokes that he is the Bionic Parent. I jest back that it is a shame he didn’t have such powers when we were younger and he could have heard us [...]
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    Posted: September 09, 2009, 11:49am EDT
    by Katherine Coble

  • You’ve Got To Be Carefully Taught

    I just knew that I’d miss some lame and trumped up controversy when I went on vacation, and I wasn’t disappointed. I opened my Facebook in the middle of last week to see many of my right-leaning friends in high lather about the President speaking to their schoolchildren. You’d have [...]
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    Posted: September 08, 2009, 10:29am EDT
    by Katherine Coble

  • Today I Want To Slap Neil Diamond

    Number of comments: 5
    I get so tired of people saying “If you follow me on Facebook or Twitter” because it’s kind of like ’so how many rooms of navel-gazing do I have to traipse through with you to find out basic information?” but I realised on this last vacation that Facebook and Twitter [...]
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    Posted: September 07, 2009, 4:08pm EDT
    by Katherine Coble

  • Am I In The Wrong Here?

    Number of comments: 3
    It’s bad writing–or maybe weak writing–to overuse adverbs and adjectives in a sentence. Lately I’ve read several books where the opening paragraphs go something like this: It was a dark, stormy night. The woods were old and piney and filled with giant black flies. It’s like someone teaches a basic creative writing [...]
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    Posted: September 01, 2009, 6:02am EDT
    by Katherine Coble

  • “When You Say ‘Ohfahn’ do you mean ‘frequently’ or ‘a person who has lost his parents’?”

    Number of comments: 1
    I’m here in the midst of cornfields and Amish Country visiting family, researching my book and trying to out-will my health issues. I’ve kicked my 16yearold niece off her computer so that I could hide Mafia Wars updates on FB and decided to stay and write. If I don’t write [...]
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    Posted: August 31, 2009, 9:41pm EDT
    by Katherine Coble

  • Disgusting People

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    Yesterday several of the folks I follow on Twitter sent around a link to a website that I’ll not repeat here. The basic gist of it was that people all over the country upload photos they’ve taken of other customers at a well-known, oft-despised discount store. As you can imagine [...]
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    Posted: August 28, 2009, 9:15am EDT
    by Katherine Coble

  • We Are Wizards: Harry Potter As A Way Of Life (?)

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    So I couldn’t sleep and decided to watch this documentary on my handy Netflix Instant. I’d heard a lot about it but avoided it because….well…we’ll get there. I’m a Harry Potter fan. By that I mean that I’ve read the books score(s) of times, can answer pretty much any question about [...]
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    Posted: August 28, 2009, 6:02am EDT
    by Katherine Coble

  • Illegal Immigration

    Number of comments: 10
    I seem to have temporarily lost my ability to write passable post titles. Sorry. Over the past few years I’ve found myself having a bit of a change of heart about this topic. But before I go into matters I need to clarify one specific thing. I have no respect for [...]
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    Posted: August 27, 2009, 10:55am EDT
    by Katherine Coble

  • Time And Change

    Number of comments: 4
    It occurs to me that I’ve been writing a lot of entries on big political issues and little books. This gives me the pride of being able to say I’m faithful to my blog while still dancing around the bigger boulders in my life that I’d rather not address head [...]
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    Posted: August 26, 2009, 9:27am EDT
    by Katherine Coble

  • The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo Is Not My Friend

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    I have this kind of snarky-sounding theory. I don’t mean it in a snarky way, though. I just know that while I’m a freak who reads entirely too many books there are other people out there who don’t read that many books at all. I know a lot of folks [...]
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    Posted: August 21, 2009, 12:27pm EDT
    by Katherine Coble

  • I Am A Legendary Figure Of Tragedy

    Number of comments: 4
    I was walking through the Tate Gallery on a rainy January afternoon, looking at art. I rounded a corner and was at once gutshot with a feeling not unlike falling in lust. There on the wall, larger than life was the most entrancing painting I have ever seen. Granted, I [...]
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    Posted: August 19, 2009, 3:01pm EDT
    by Katherine Coble

  • The Books You Must Read If You Are A Christian

    Number of comments: 6
    Sorry for this sloppy entry. I’ve got something to say but don’t feel like writing. That means I don’t feel like whatever this process is where I edit and craft myself into something better than verbal regurgitation. So when this entry doesn’t make a lick of sense or doesn’t say [...]
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    Posted: August 17, 2009, 4:41pm EDT
    by Katherine Coble

  • It’s Saturday

    Number of comments: 4
    It’s Saturday and my husband is in the yard cutting up the dead branch from our willow tree. It’ll be firewood this winter but now is too hot to contemplate fire. I’m in at my desk, slave to the keyboard as usual but avoiding the should do of my book [...]
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    Posted: August 15, 2009, 12:02pm EDT
    by Katherine Coble

  • We’ve Reached The End Of This Road

    Number of comments: 10
    Well, I’ve said all I cared to say about the Health Care debacle. I had planned to write up a post about how we solve the problem, what I think the best steps are to take toward a more workable system. In fact, I had drafted a large part of [...]
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    Posted: August 13, 2009, 12:24pm EDT
    by Katherine Coble

  • The Hard Thing Nobody Wants To Say

    Number of comments: 10
    I’d like to tell you about a young family with no health insurance. They’ve just bought a house and are working two jobs to pay for it–two jobs that barely cover the mortgage and the bills in this time of economic downturn. They have a little girl who was born [...]
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    Posted: August 12, 2009, 12:20am EDT
    by Katherine Coble

  • James Carville, Ben Stein, & Penn Jillette take History, Chemistry and Timewastery.

    Number of comments: 2
    How useless was the Larry King show with Penn Jillette, Ben Stein & James Carville talking about health care? Or, more precisely talking about talking about Health Care, and then talking about how bitchy Hilary Clinton was and what a genius film director John Hughes was. I don’t normally watch [...]
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    Posted: August 12, 2009, 11:53pm EDT
    by Katherine Coble

  • So Jesus and Tom Paine Walk Into A Bar…

    Number of comments: 10
    “Glen Dean” just linked to a post I wrote. He’s up to his usual tricks again, calling me a conservative while wrapping the title in snidequotes and disowning me for pandering to liberals. As if I ever did anything I didn’t want to. As if I ever caved into peer [...]
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    Posted: August 09, 2009, 8:19pm EDT
    by Katherine Coble

  • Looks Like My Neighbours Are Back

    Number of comments: 4
    A few years ago we had some black folk move in right next door. They smell awful, never clean up after themselves and break into my backyard to steal stuff. Back in April I had some friends over for a party and one of them scared my outside-smoking friend half [...]
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    Posted: July 21, 2009, 4:46pm EDT
    by Katherine Coble

  • Medium Crazy

    Number of comments: 5
    So I woke up this morning from the oddest dream. It was almost like being in the middle of a thrilling novel. Except in this thrilling novel I, along with a handful of other people was flown to an island country under false pretense. They told me I was chosen [...]
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    Posted: July 21, 2009, 6:26am EDT
    by Katherine Coble

  • My Mom, The Soylent Green Of Tomorrow

    Number of comments: 8
    I’m reading through the Dingell, et. al. Health Care reform bill (House 111) because I feel that someone ought to. Many things are standing out to me, but the part that is ringing through my brain and setting my ire alight right now is found in Subtitle C, Section 1233. [...]
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    Posted: July 20, 2009, 3:36pm EDT
    by Katherine Coble

  • The Hate Crime Of Universal Health Care

    Number of comments: 10
    Last Friday the Tennessean posted an unsigned editorial excoriating the overweight. I refuse to link to the piece, but others have, so if you’d like to read it, feel free to follow the rabbit trail. The shortened version is that people are whining about how bad health care is, [...][...]
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    Posted: July 20, 2009, 11:56am EDT
    by Katherine Coble

  • Amazon, Orwell And Captain Jack Sparrow

    Number of comments: 10
    Yesterday Rachel said she was waiting for my post on this issue. When she said that, I had no idea what she was talking about. She reminded me, and then Rex Hammock Twittered about it and now Aunt B. has written about it as well. It’s a story where I turn [...]
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    Posted: July 18, 2009, 11:21am EDT
    by Katherine Coble

  • Seeing You Hurts Me

    Number of comments: 2
    Does this ever happen to anyone else? And does anyone else just hate Facebook because of it? There are people–none of whom would ever read this blog, I imagine, who are relics of my past. A past in which I did embarrassing things or behaved in a way that I’d [...]
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    Posted: July 16, 2009, 8:29pm EDT
    by Katherine Coble

  • The 100 Books List

    Number of comments: 5
    The BBC has had this snooty “100 books everyone should read” list floating around the internet for some time. I usually hate lists like that because they make reading–which is a personal activity much like eating or sex–into some regimented march toward groupthink. My bud Rachel makes the very good [...]
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    Posted: July 16, 2009, 11:36am EDT
    by Katherine Coble

  • This Is Exactly Why…

    Number of comments: 5
    Obligatory intro: I’m a big believer in being open and honest about body parts. Reproductive organs should be no less mysterious than arms, eyes and knees. That’s why I’ve got no problem talking plainly about the topic here. At the same time I know many people don’t share [...][...]
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    Posted: July 15, 2009, 12:05pm EDT
    by Katherine Coble

  • Feel Good Friday

    Number of comments: 6
    I read yesterday on Twitter that ASCAP is thinking about going after bloggers who embed videos in their posts. So guess what I’m gonna stop doing? Yep. I know that’s not really feel-goody of me. But I guess since I wasn’t a regular with the “post a [...][...]
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    Posted: July 10, 2009, 9:21am EDT
    by Katherine Coble

  • A Note To The Tea Party People

    Number of comments: 5
    Yeah, I’m just all kinds of sittin’ here coming up with stuff to yell at the world as it passes by my door. Blame the fact that I was up all night thinking and playing Epic Pet Wars. I may agree with many things that many of the Tea Party [...]
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    Posted: July 07, 2009, 1:28pm EDT
    by Katherine Coble

  • I Will Change My Mind About Climate Change

    First off–I’ve always believed in ‘climate change’. Where I’m agnostic is when people talk about ‘human-induced climate change’ with certainty. I don’t believe we can be certain that Evil Mankind is the Cause For The End Of The World As We Know It. But I have decided I [...][...]
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    Posted: July 07, 2009, 1:18pm EDT
    by Katherine Coble

  • Two Naked 8 Year Olds Who Are Married

    Number of comments: 1
    Two of my friends are ruminating on the nature and action of love. I think there are ways in which they are both right. B. is correct in that there are many kinds of love, and love can surprise you. It can come from nowhere, when you least expect it. [...]
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    Posted: July 06, 2009, 5:14pm EDT
    by Katherine Coble

  • Libration!

    Two hundred and some years ago–math is not my strong suit–the Declaration of Independence was signed. This is a holiday that is born out of words. Words born from ideas found in books and pamphlets and hot-blooded speakers on street corners. Words and freedom are twinned and and twining about [...]
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    Posted: July 04, 2009, 3:45pm EDT
    by Katherine Coble

  • Goldilocks The Scrivener

    Now I’m active on Twitter. I signed up when it was new and promptly let it lay dormant for ages. Then I started playing this game that required me to be on there for game advantages. Then I realised that everyone who used to have blogs now writes on Twiitter and [...]
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    Posted: July 02, 2009, 12:07am EDT
    by Katherine Coble

  • Take A Pill

    I have Rheumatoid Arthritis. I have private health insurance. That means that I am being given pain pills, but I’m also being given medications called “DMARDS” or Disease Modifying Anti-Rheumetic Drugs. While there is no cure for RA, there are treatment options like Methotrexate, Remicade and Enbrel which slow [...][...]
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    Posted: July 01, 2009, 7:08am EDT
    by Katherine Coble

  • A Health Care Option We Can ALL Agree On

    Health Care is the big topic of debate right now–when we aren’t distracted by those who no longer need any health care at all–and I am leery of alienating anyone by taking sides. But there is one thing that is very important. Something that we can–and should–agree on regardless of where [...]
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    Posted: June 29, 2009, 4:01pm EDT
    by Katherine Coble

  • The Thing That Money Shouldn’t Buy

    Number of comments: 3
    About two years ago I switched doctors on the advice of several people. The physician I was seeing kept ascribing my various aches and pains to the extra pounds I carried and seemed profoundly disinterested in any other cause for my pain. I loved the new doctor. She took me [...]
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    Posted: June 29, 2009, 12:57pm EDT
    by Katherine Coble

  • And Wept When It Was All Done…

    Number of comments: 1
    The only celebrity whose death–or impending death–upset me was, of course, Warren Zevon. When he announced that he had a terminal illness my world was rocked. His music is on every day in my life and I sort of consider him the poet laureate of my adulthood. I didn’t cry [...]
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    Posted: June 26, 2009, 10:46am EDT
    by Katherine Coble

  • Liver: $1.29/Lb

    Number of comments: 1
    I don’t care that Steve Jobs got a new liver possibly because he’s rich. I really don’t. I know that I should. I know that I should be yelling and screaming about how unfair it is that money can buy things. But I’m not. I’m also not writing a blog post [...]
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    Posted: June 25, 2009, 12:36pm EDT
    by Katherine Coble
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