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THIS MADE ME LAUGH

FROM THE BULLETIN OF THE CENTER FOR CHILDREN'S BOOKS


Apology to an Author and to My Grandmother

In my review of Meghan McCarthy’s The Incredible Life of Balto in the July/August issue, I not just once but twice used an incorrect last name for the author. I sincerely apologize to Meghan McCarthy, whose book I liked quite a bit; I also apologize to my grandmother, Lucy McCarthy, who is glowering at me from the afterlife for messing up my own family’s name. My deepest regrets to Meghan McCarthy; please stop turning over now, Grandma.

ALWAYS SURPRISED

Or not...

This is a "Thomas Edison quote of the day."

"Why is it that so few women have brains? Men of brains it is easy to find, but women––"

ELECTION LOVE

TIME LAPSE PAINTING

I spent two days working on this thing... I thought it would really show how my painting evolves from the very beginning to end. Mmmmm, not so much. It's all of 18 seconds and you could blink and miss it. Oh well. I tried. 

To make it work I took 25 snap shots and then spent two days working in Photoshop making sure that all 25 images would approximately lay over one another - so I worked in layers, moving... tweaking... resizing... ugh! And all I got was 15 seconds. So I suppose to create what I really envisioned it would take about 100 images and would take me about a week. Hmmm. 

CONSTRUCTION!

The construction NEVER ENDS! AAAA!!! I had to give a talk at my publisher S&S this morning, which meant I needed to get up at 7... or 7:30 if I kept hitting the snooze button. I was very concerned that I'd set my alarm wrong (you know, a.m instead of p.m and that sort of thing). I don't know what I was worried about. 7 ON THE DOT and the noise from hell fire started. I guess the construction noise is my new alarm clock (when I want to get up at 7 that is).

I made a video to show my lovely audience how much it's gotten in the way of my work:

My mom said I should have made it longer. Hmm. How much longer? I told her I didn't want to torture people.

LITTLE STINKER-----31" BABYDOLL READY TO REBORN

I put "Little Stinker" into the ebay search engine because I was looking for Betty Skelton's autobiography. I can't find it anywhere except for one place and it's charging 100.00! Ouch. I'd really like to print the cover in the back matter of my book but I can't if I don't have a good image. 

So in my search for "Little Stinker" on ebay, this is what came up!

Here is the description accompanying the lovely images:

I GOT THIS DOLL IN A BIG LOT OF REBORN SUPPLIES AND PARTS.  SOMEONE TRIED TO REBORN THE  HEAD BUT IT DIDN'T LOOK GOOD, SO I REMOVED THE PAINT BUT INSIDE THE HEAD IS BLUE TO MAKE AROUND THE EYES AND NOSE LOOK NATURAL.  I AM SELLING IT BECAUSE I DO NOT REBORN LITTLE  BABIES, OR GIANT BABIES, JUST THE RIGHT SIZE BABIES.  

HAPPY BIDDING

Can you say creepy? What is all of this "Reborn" stuff about? And why did the person call it "Little Stinker? I don't think I want to know what's going on in this lady's head. I'm mentally running the other way!