tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8425410223108078052012-02-02T14:44:46.598-08:00CHRISTINE TRZYNA WRITERLY LIFEA Little About Menoreply@blogger.comBlogger7251100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842541022310807805.post-28013881887075712012012-02-01T18:19:00.000-08:002012-02-01T18:19:00.311-08:00A Little About Menoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842541022310807805.post-38916558076186280382012-01-27T18:09:00.000-08:002012-02-01T11:55:13.368-08:00I DON'T TWITTER!There is more than one Christine Trzyna on this earth. This one does not presently Twitter. I have never sent one Twitter message in my life! The reason is that I can't believe anyone would be so interested in the minor details of my life that they would want to be interrupted frequently with updates and I CERTAINLY HAVE MORE TO DO WITH MY TIME THAN BE INTERRUPTED BY OTHER PEOPLES minor details! A Little About Menoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842541022310807805.post-59611975732961374902012-01-21T18:09:00.000-08:002012-01-21T18:09:00.204-08:00J.W. EAGEN QUOTE"Never judge a book by its movie." - J.W. EagenA Little About Menoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842541022310807805.post-70851962474201217482012-01-17T18:09:00.000-08:002012-01-18T14:26:23.418-08:00HAS TECHNOLOGY EFFECTED MY READING ?HAS TECHNOLOGY EFFECTED MY READING ?by Christine TrzynaI'm a voracious reader. I need the intellectual stimulation and my interest are varied. I read a lot of memoirs and bios and I'm interested in cultural social histories and anthropology and archeology and so very much. I also read fiction though much less than I do non-fiction. Most of what I read isn't on the best seller list but sometimes A Little About Menoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842541022310807805.post-28860661696830303482012-01-13T18:09:00.000-08:002012-01-17T14:52:22.537-08:00SKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER : WOMEN HOLD UP HALF THE SKY EXHIBIT IS A CALL TO FEMINIST ACTIVISMJust the other day I went to Skirball Cultural Center to see about the exhibit "WOMEN HOLD UP HALF THE SKY."I strongly suggest you do too. This exhibit was emotionally stirring. It also re-excited my long felt feminism. The focus was on women in Africa and India and other 3rd World Countries but are those women so different that we in the United States? The presentation is of light, airy A Little About Menoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842541022310807805.post-65183984359395774862012-01-08T18:19:00.000-08:002012-01-08T18:19:00.421-08:00THE JANE AUSTIN BOOK CLUB : DVD : BOOK BY KAREN JOY FOWLER, SCREENPLAY by BY ROBIN SWINCORDThe JANE AUSTIN BOOK CLUB is posted as a romantic comedy. I didn't think it was funny or "hilarious" like it says on the back of the DVD, but I did find this story interesting. I'm no Jane Austin expert but I suspect Karen Joy Fowler is, and while I was watching this film, I was thinking about writing workshops, and creative fiction, and how she must have plotted this story out.Fowler, and then A Little About Menoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842541022310807805.post-20533918871518290292012-01-05T18:19:00.000-08:002012-01-05T18:19:00.702-08:00BOB DYLAN : SHE BELONGS TO MEA Little About Menoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842541022310807805.post-66173310796042157172012-01-03T18:19:00.000-08:002012-01-05T15:21:35.040-08:00MARK TWAIN Quote"Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very" your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be." - Mark TwainA Little About Menoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842541022310807805.post-38013019024902456262012-01-01T18:19:00.000-08:002012-01-01T18:19:00.497-08:00A Little About Menoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842541022310807805.post-32855635947808419732011-12-30T18:19:00.000-08:002011-12-30T18:19:00.627-08:00A Little About Menoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842541022310807805.post-5726196328588040752011-12-27T18:19:00.000-08:002011-12-27T18:19:00.848-08:00GORDON LIGHTFOOT : BEAUTIFULA Little About Menoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842541022310807805.post-32379322205669119372011-12-25T18:19:00.000-08:002011-12-25T18:19:00.228-08:00A Little About Menoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842541022310807805.post-9170178894978937862011-12-23T18:19:00.000-08:002011-12-23T18:19:00.574-08:00AMY WINEHOUSE I SAW MUMMY KISSING SANTA CLAUSA Little About Menoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842541022310807805.post-61003324819397701012011-12-21T18:19:00.000-08:002011-12-21T18:19:00.227-08:00A Little About Menoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842541022310807805.post-57442972768453151222011-12-19T18:19:00.000-08:002011-12-19T18:19:00.298-08:00BEN FRANKLIN and his ARMONICA (from my archives!)So the other day I was in a public library in another city when I noticed a table of Christmas CD's and one of them featured songs performed on the ARMONICA... Turns out that my favorite Benjamin Franklin invented this instrument... Marie Antoinette was one of those who learned to play it. There were once 5000 in existance and now? ! maybe two or three players in the whole world... Linking to theA Little About Menoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842541022310807805.post-23082284871920797912011-12-16T18:19:00.000-08:002011-12-16T18:19:00.998-08:00A Little About Menoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842541022310807805.post-78763041715542739842011-12-12T18:19:00.000-08:002011-12-12T18:19:00.163-08:00BEN FRANKLIN : ONE NATION UNDER SEX BY LARRY FLYNT and DAVID EISENBACHONE NATION UNDER SEXHow The Private Lives of Presidents, First Ladies, and Their Lovers Changed the Course of American History.By Larry Flynt and David Eisenbach C2011Palgrave-Macmillan Publisherspage 7"Ben Franklin was not the first American newsman to realize that sex sells, he he was a pioneer in pushing the envelope of what was acceptable in print. When he entered the newspaper business in A Little About Menoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842541022310807805.post-58773560802711219142011-12-03T18:19:00.001-08:002011-12-03T18:19:00.648-08:00RAY BRADBURY Quote"You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you." - Ray BradburyA Little About Menoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842541022310807805.post-8732756327878500722011-12-01T18:19:00.000-08:002011-12-01T18:19:00.144-08:00A Little About Menoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842541022310807805.post-6703799414366087852011-11-28T18:19:00.000-08:002011-11-28T18:19:00.655-08:00BENJAMIN FRANKLIN : AN EXTRAORDINARY LIFE. AN ELECTRIC MIND. PBS DVDLOVED this video about one of my favorite historical characters. Yes, if I had the opportunity to travel back in time it would be to Philadelphia, where I would, pre-American revolution, have some long coffee house discussions with Ben. This one showed how a person born to a candle maker, who had aspirations past his station in life, made that happen. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN was one of the FIRST A Little About Menoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842541022310807805.post-12215537487290947932011-11-26T18:19:00.000-08:002011-11-26T18:19:00.232-08:00SILVER HEARTS : SHAKE RUSSELA Little About Menoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842541022310807805.post-90193282152720871772011-11-25T18:19:00.000-08:002011-11-25T18:19:00.196-08:00GOT A QUESTION FOR YOU WRITERS OUT THERE!Do we really have BETTER MEMORIES than most people?I've long heard of the "long writer's memory" and I believe I am one of those people who has a very good memory. This doesn't mean I never forget anything or that I don't write things down. I often make lists of things I have to do, to try and stay on track with the ambitions of my day. A Little About Menoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842541022310807805.post-20445129728369118872011-11-23T18:19:00.000-08:002011-11-23T18:19:00.392-08:00MARK TWAIN HOUSE : WOMAN JAILED FOR STEALING A MILLIONBreaking News from Yahoo. "Twain, born Samuel Clemens in Florida, Missouri, had money troubles himself while living in the home from 1874 to 1891 -- a period in which he wrote such American classics as "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and "Huckleberry Finn."Twain ultimately had to leave the Victorian Gothic home for lecture tours of Europe because of financial troubles."A Little About Menoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842541022310807805.post-22326365386181981862011-11-22T18:19:00.000-08:002011-11-22T18:19:00.372-08:00MEANWHILE I MAY NEVER BOYCOTT BOOKS BUT I MAY BOYCOTT LOS ANGELES PUBLIC LIBRARYThe recent "upgrade" of computers at Los Angeles Public Library (and I now realize this means CITY libraries not the Los Angeles COUNTY libraries) is so hyper-concerned about terrorists and other criminal characters that the public computers are barely functioning.First it was the end of Word Processing as we all knew it and loved it. The Library switched to expecting a patron to use GOOGLE or A Little About Menoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842541022310807805.post-41065574760721536602011-11-18T18:19:00.000-08:002011-11-18T11:06:46.145-08:00BURBANK LIBRARY and BARNES AND NOBLE MUTUALLY BENEFITON SATURDAY DECEMBER 3rd 2011, at BARNES AND NOBLE, 731 North San Fernando Blvd, in BURBANK, any book purchase with the following Bookfair ID number 10561099, will result in some percentage being contributed to BURBANK PUBLIC LIBRARY.This is being arranged through FRIENDS OF BURBANK PUBLIC LIBRARY!A Little About Menoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842541022310807805.post-65081446135283998402011-11-16T18:19:00.000-08:002011-11-16T18:19:00.105-08:00HMMMM DID I MENTION THAT I'M MOVIE DEPRIVED?Yes, I probably did mention that I'm considered to be "movie deprived." And I probably did mention that a friend had set me up with an old TV and DVD so I could catch up. Well, the TV didn't last long, wouldn't you know it? Just after I finally hunted down the truly "Universal" Remote to start watching films too. And so more than a year has gone by since then and guess what? Another friend has A Little About Menoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842541022310807805.post-88803926575945601752011-11-03T18:19:00.000-07:002011-11-03T18:19:00.617-07:00SOUTH AFRICAN CAVE HOLDS ANCIENT ART SUPPLIESLead researcher Christopher Henshilwood of the University of Bergen, Norway, said the find represents an important benchmark in the evolution of complex human mental processes.The ochre could have been used for painting, decoration and skin protection, according to the researchers.The discovery shows that even at that time "humans had the conceptual ability to source, combine and store substancesA Little About Menoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842541022310807805.post-13339575594675007472011-11-01T18:19:00.000-07:002011-11-01T18:19:00.979-07:00A Little About Menoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842541022310807805.post-68826485733553986322011-10-31T18:19:00.001-07:002011-10-31T18:19:00.592-07:00JOHN KEATS : THIS LIVING HAND NOW WARM AND CAPABLETHIS LIVING HAND NOW WARM AND CAPABLEby John Keats 1795–1821This living hand, now warm and capableOf earnest grasping, would, if it were coldAnd in the icy silence of the tomb,So haunt thy days and chill thy dreaming nightsThat thou would wish thine own heart dry of bloodSo in my veins red life might stream again,And thou be conscience-calm’d–see here it is–I hold it towards you.A Little About Menoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842541022310807805.post-35288038002619571242011-10-30T18:19:00.000-07:002011-10-19T10:48:27.588-07:00YE GHOST Do you like to be afraid? Mystics say that this time of the year is the best time for contacting those who've passed to the other side. And for them to contact us. So maybe this why there is Halloween, Hallowmas, All Saints Day, All Souls Day, and the Day of the Dead celebrated in various cultures in late October and early November. I'm not at all into horror and gore or the outrageous party A Little About Menoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842541022310807805.post-4364761694898635122011-10-28T18:09:00.000-07:002011-10-28T18:09:00.096-07:00CROWDSOURCING:"Your educated guess may be just as good as an expert's opinion. Statistics have long shown that large crowds of average people frequently make better predictions about unknown events, when their disparate guesses are averaged out, than any individual scholar — a phenomenon known as the wisdom of crowds."Linking to the article : Are we all a little psychic? A Little About Menoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842541022310807805.post-61431490913926768162011-10-26T18:19:00.000-07:002011-10-26T18:19:00.743-07:00RATHER WEAR A HOOD THAN LIVE IN ONEA Little About Menoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842541022310807805.post-84011555254161141362011-10-24T18:19:00.000-07:002011-10-24T18:19:00.501-07:00UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, CORNELL, UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN, UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, and INDIANA UNIVERSITY SUED BY AUTHORS GUILDTHIS IS ABOUT DIGITAL COPIES OF BOOKS THAT ARE STILL COPYRIGHTED BY AUTHORS. IT'S A SERIOUS MATTER AND A TEST OF OUR LAWS."Authors and authors' groups in the United States, Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom sued the University of Michigan and four other universities Monday, seeking to stop the creation of online libraries made up of as many as 7 million copyright-protected books they say A Little About Menoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842541022310807805.post-19596768611748739742011-10-22T18:19:00.000-07:002011-10-22T18:19:00.165-07:00TEACHER I NEED YOU : ELTON JOHNA Little About Menoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842541022310807805.post-25812189130498676482011-10-21T18:19:00.000-07:002011-10-24T17:07:44.146-07:00MICHAEL CRICHTON : NEXT : BOOK REVIEW BY CHRISTINE TRZYNA"This novel is fiction except for the parts that aren't"So is the disclaimer statement on MICHAEL CRICHTON's book circa 2006 "NEXT" which I enjoyed thoroughly maybe especially because I read science fact around DNA and the Human Genome Project. In this story human genes are being put into parrots to make them talk in full sentences and into primates to make them half human as well as other human A Little About Menoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842541022310807805.post-56660431464103105502011-10-18T18:19:00.000-07:002011-10-18T18:19:00.122-07:00LAUREN MYRACLE DID THE ETHICAL THING"This year’s National Book Awards have become a story of embarrassment a month before the winners are to be announced. Within just a few days, children’s author Lauren Myracle has been a nominee, a non-nominee, a nominee again and, finally, a non-nominee, asked to withdraw over mistakes not her own.Myracle’s “Shine’’ was on the original list of five finalists announced last Wednesday for the A Little About Menoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842541022310807805.post-71388130769390644522011-10-13T18:19:00.000-07:002011-10-13T18:19:00.395-07:00GRAMMY MUSEUM : GEORGE HARRISON : LIVING IN THE MATERIAL WORLD EXHIBITThe Grammy Museum has a George Harrison exhibit which I would love to see. Watching the documentary as available on-line.A Little About Menoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842541022310807805.post-57481546636944230292011-10-11T18:09:00.000-07:002011-10-11T18:09:00.566-07:00MOONDANCE VAN MORRISONA Little About Menoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842541022310807805.post-35376109947441390942011-10-10T18:19:00.000-07:002011-10-12T10:49:33.854-07:00LOS ANGELES PUBLIC LIBRARY KEEPS THE BATHROOM DOORS LOCKED and WE ALL GOTTA PEELOS ANGELES PUBLIC LIBRARY KEEPS THE BATHROOM DOORS LOCKED and WE ALL GOTTA PEEby Christine TrzynaAs it's been explained to me, there was the theft - during the day when the library was opened - of copper plumbing from the men's room of the North Hollywood branch, and the theft of copper plumbing at a two or three other branches as well, AND SO THE POWERS THAT ARE DECIDED THAT ALL LOS ANGELES A Little About Menoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842541022310807805.post-808627463930121212011-10-01T18:19:00.002-07:002011-10-07T13:09:12.624-07:00A Little About Menoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842541022310807805.post-68816132102703155942011-09-29T18:19:00.000-07:002011-09-29T18:19:00.351-07:00WINSTON CHURCHILL QUOTE"Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement; then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster, and fling him out to the public."- Winston ChurchillA Little About Menoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842541022310807805.post-660566247867167222011-09-26T18:19:00.000-07:002011-09-26T18:19:00.561-07:00NIRVANA : COME AS YOU AREA Little About Menoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842541022310807805.post-36351889141090599732011-09-21T18:19:00.000-07:002011-10-12T10:46:43.121-07:00THE DEFINITIVE POINTING HANDA Little About Menoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842541022310807805.post-22568000600746771442011-09-18T18:19:00.000-07:002011-09-21T15:21:01.850-07:00HIDDEN LOS ANGELES FREE MUSEUM DAY CALENDARBummed out 'cause I can't afford to go to the Grammy Museum and only ONE museum free day a year there in 2011 and it's PAST! But if you want to go to see a museum at absolutely no charge, by all means check out HIDDEN LOS ANGELES! (What this means is that even broke men can ask women on dates, OK?)A Little About Menoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842541022310807805.post-47429960318437189922011-09-14T18:19:00.000-07:002011-09-14T18:19:00.560-07:00THE BAG LADY PAPERS : ALEXANDRA PENNEY CHRISTINE TRZYNA BOOK REVIEWThe Bag Lady Papersthe priceless experience of losing it alla true storyby Alexandra Penney C 2010 (Just now on my library's New Book Shelf!)Voice Hyperion PublishersAlexandra Penny lost it "all" except she didn't; she remains living in a house and simply has had to budget down to where most of us would feel lucky to be, subbing ordered in pizza (along with good liquor) for a dinner party, for A Little About Menoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842541022310807805.post-62520936046928150912011-09-05T18:19:00.000-07:002011-09-05T18:19:00.377-07:00EDWARD BULWER LYTTON Quote"Talent does what it can but genius does what it must." - Edward Bulwer Lytton.
A Little About Menoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842541022310807805.post-27648556162579502542011-09-01T18:19:00.000-07:002011-09-01T18:19:00.564-07:00A Little About Menoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842541022310807805.post-6189915342436195402011-08-31T18:09:00.000-07:002011-09-01T17:33:06.707-07:00LOS ANGELES PUBLIC LIBRARY GETS RID OF WORDPROCESSING OPTION TO SAVE MONEY! ARE THEY CRAZY?Los Angeles Public Library, probably the most accessible and necessary offering the city has for its citizens, supporting thousands of (often low income) students (and schools and teachers) as well as those who cannot afford home computers or home Internet, has decided to cut budget by no longer offering simple WORD PROCESSING on the computers for public use in the libraries. YOU HEARD ME RIGHT!
A Little About Menoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842541022310807805.post-29689643250311871092011-08-29T18:19:00.000-07:002011-08-29T18:19:00.219-07:00ATLANTIC MAGAZINE BRINGS BACK THE SHORT STORYAtlantic Magazine has brought back the short story. A few years ago the magazine quit their tradition. But now readers are full of opinions. Should short stories stay or go again?I AM SO HAPPY THAT ATLANTIC IS MAKING SPACE FOR SHORT STORES! I wish more magazines would do so! It was in magazines that I was first exposed to short fiction, a genre a studied and wrote quite a bit for a time. A Little About Menoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842541022310807805.post-51426943642345668072011-08-25T18:39:00.000-07:002011-08-25T18:39:00.631-07:00ANGELINA by ANDREW MORTON : CHRISTINE TRZYNA BOOK REVIEWANGELINA (Unauthorized biography of Angelina Jolie)by Andrew Morton C 2010St Martin's PressThis review isn't so much about the CONTENT of Andrew Morton's biography of the famous actress and world traveler, who along with life partner Brad Pitt, has become the mother of 6 children, three who've been adopted from Africa and Asia, and who is now also an official Goodwill Ambassador for the United A Little About Menoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842541022310807805.post-3816831945559453302011-08-20T18:19:00.000-07:002011-09-22T14:40:22.564-07:00EX-LIBRASA Little About Menoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842541022310807805.post-86057223275710779782011-08-18T18:19:00.000-07:002011-08-18T18:19:00.647-07:00EXCERPT : AND THE SHOW WENT ON : CULTURAL LIFE IN NAZI-OCCUPIED PARIS BY ALAN RIDINGPages 239-241"...the Nazi had...long since "cleansed" the publishers' back lists...some 20,000 books were seized."...After the Otto List, a far wider sweep followed, with German military police raiding seventy publishing houses, closing eleven of them, and confiscating over 700,000 books. But the Nazis were not yet satisfied. In July 1942, Propaganda Staffel issued an updated Otto List of 1,070 A Little About Menoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842541022310807805.post-8566505392612247252011-08-15T18:09:00.000-07:002012-01-19T12:41:16.918-08:00FUNNY! SQUIRREL DIABETES by Christine TrzynaSquirrels! GUMMY WORMS! Diabetes! by Christine TrzynaTHIS IS A TRUE STORY!A few months ago I was sitting on a boulder in the park, waiting for a friend of mine, and I'd bought some groceries on my way there. The park squirrels know the sound of grocery bags and maybe they could smell those Trader Joes' almonds I had or the box of chocolate covered graham cracker-cookies, which were opened. (You A Little About Menoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842541022310807805.post-61736296534058198822011-08-10T18:19:00.000-07:002011-08-15T11:10:02.976-07:00MY JOURNEY WITH FARRAH by ALANA STEWART : CHRISTINE TRZYNA BOOK REVIEWYes, this book was published 1 1/2 to 2 years ago and yes, it has just appeared on the "New Book Shelf" at my library.
I picked it up because I wanted some "light" summer reading, not because I was ever a fan of Farrah Fawcett or Alana Stewart. I expected it to be more about Farrah's celebrity and I have no doubt that who it was about and who it was written by helped greatly to get it publishedA Little About Menoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842541022310807805.post-39156843200994053482011-08-08T18:19:00.000-07:002011-08-15T11:11:01.276-07:00AUBREY BEARDSLEY BOOKPLATEA Little About Menoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842541022310807805.post-47263994490015769362011-08-06T18:39:00.000-07:002011-08-19T14:13:37.848-07:00MY HOLLYWOOD by MONA SIMPSON : CHRISTINE TRZYNA BOOK REVIEWMY HOLLYWOOD
C 2010 Mona Simpson
Borzoi Book Alfred A Knopf Publisher
Filipina nanny "Lola", the dominant voice and sensibility in this wonderfully rendered portrait of new century life in Santa Monica, California, comes to Los Angeles to work and send money home to her own Hallmark card artist husband and four good children. She, over several years, works long hours and seven days a week to A Little About Menoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842541022310807805.post-79572117470760550602011-08-01T18:19:00.000-07:002011-08-01T18:19:00.344-07:00CARLOS CASTANEDA Quote"We're all nothing but bags of stories." - Carlos CastanedaA Little About Menoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842541022310807805.post-12458912566211932262011-08-01T06:09:00.000-07:002011-08-05T10:34:37.032-07:00A Little About Menoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842541022310807805.post-17283594534519304932011-07-29T18:19:00.001-07:002012-01-05T15:22:38.196-08:00TAISHA ABELAR NEW BOOK COMING OUT : UPDATELinking to a French blog site that has videos of Interview of Taisha Abelar: still checking : Her book due out ANY MOMENT. (That's what they said in the spring too!)According to http://www.nagualist.com/new-taisha-abelar-book it is due out July 30th 2011, published by Penguin.You can use the search feature of this blog to read past posts on Taisha Abelar.UPDATE JANUARY 5, 2011 I'M STILL WAITING.A Little About Menoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842541022310807805.post-82910467788509020162011-07-27T18:19:00.000-07:002011-07-29T10:27:04.379-07:00BOOKS FOR VACATION READINGA Little About Menoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842541022310807805.post-25259478799753825182011-07-25T19:19:00.000-07:002011-07-25T19:28:06.733-07:00AMY WINEHOUSE ME AND MR. JONESA Little About Menoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842541022310807805.post-62771433731479151982011-07-25T00:19:00.000-07:002011-08-01T09:42:18.893-07:00AMY WINEHOUSE DEAD FROM LIFE and WHY USING ILLEGAL DRUGS is STUPID STUPID STUPIDThe surprising but not shocking death of AMY WINEHOUSE, the Jewish-British singer, whose music I've posted on this blog because I like it, who took a hell of a lot of International Razzing over her drug and alcohol addictions, and who appeared to be too fragile to deal with fame and the pressure of having to outdo herself on her next try, has me thinking about drug use and abuse : addiction. A Little About Menoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842541022310807805.post-28491812990252691602011-07-17T18:39:00.000-07:002011-07-17T18:39:00.532-07:00HAVANA NOCTURENE by T.J. ENGLISH : BOOK EXCERPTPage 110"The casinos were in fine fettle and the Havana Mob was beginning to assert itself in the early months of 1953, but all was not right in the land of Christopher Columbus. Batista's golpe had created a mood of unrest that would not go away. A tradition of rebellion had been reawakened, though it was difficult to gauge the actual level of resistance. Censorship was rigorously enforced on A Little About Menoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842541022310807805.post-25129916410477210872011-07-11T18:39:00.000-07:002011-07-11T18:39:00.321-07:00TALKING MOUSE!A Little About Menoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842541022310807805.post-26464242881412218322011-07-06T18:39:00.000-07:002011-08-25T13:47:35.863-07:00MURDOCK AND BROOKSIE HAVE GONE TOO FAR HACKING INTO PRIVATE VOICE MAIL ACCOUNTS : A BRITISH JOURNALISM SCANDLE : CHRISTINE TRZYNA OPINIONScandal of the New Century ? YES! CERTAINLY! (If you haven't heard about this one yet, click on the title above to get to the Christian Science Monitor article, one of thousands of news reports about reporters !)
Do Reporters have the Right to Break a Story just because they can?
It seems that in an effort to have the news (and sell copy), there has been a severe and unforgiveable amount of A Little About Menoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842541022310807805.post-81767170891761426932011-07-05T18:39:00.000-07:002011-07-06T11:29:41.925-07:00KATHARINE HEPBURN Quote"If you always do what interests you at least one person is pleased." - Katharine HepburnA Little About Menoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842541022310807805.post-89009023092547853912011-07-01T06:19:00.000-07:002011-07-01T06:19:00.795-07:00A Little About Menoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842541022310807805.post-87456847789481963012011-06-27T18:19:00.000-07:002011-06-27T18:19:00.519-07:00SENIOR CITIZENS READING ELECTRONIC BOOKSI've been noticing some senior citizens - my guess in their late sixties through eighties - reading from electronic book readers. This is a sign that even seniors (who statistically tend not to use the internet, e-mail, or cell phones, or social networking sites) are taking to the light weight and less-expensive-than-a-paper-copy download. At the library electronic books are also downloadable at A Little About Menoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842541022310807805.post-61630145729602275072011-06-21T18:19:00.000-07:002011-06-21T18:19:00.773-07:00WRITING MACHINESA Little About Menoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842541022310807805.post-86773042742912117442011-06-20T18:19:00.000-07:002011-06-20T18:19:00.227-07:00JIMMY PAGE PLAYS THE THERAMINA Little About Menoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842541022310807805.post-38810112785409658142011-06-19T18:19:00.000-07:002011-06-19T18:19:01.066-07:00DAVID FERRY BIRDSA Little About Menoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842541022310807805.post-41918152185355153542011-06-18T18:19:00.000-07:002011-06-18T18:19:00.595-07:00DAVID FERRY : POETRY FOUNDATION 2011 LILLY POETRY AWARDThe Poetry Foundation announces this years Lilly Lifetime Achievement Prize for poetry to poet David Ferry - link above.And the New York Times article to go with : http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/15/david-ferry-wins-the-worlds-biggest-poetry-prize/A Little About Menoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842541022310807805.post-46669389005907015782011-06-15T18:19:00.000-07:002011-06-15T18:19:00.762-07:00RUTH LILLY THE GREAT PHILANTHROPIST OF POETRYRuth Lilly, the only living heir of the Eli Lilly fortune pledged $100 million (have heard $200,000 million also) in 2002 to the Poetry Foundation to publish Poetry Magazine and more. She also provided that every year one poet receive the Lilly award which is $100,000! Linking to the New York Times article from 2007 which reveals the lack of appreciation some have shown for this amazing bequest. A Little About Menoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842541022310807805.post-76759948491501660512011-06-13T18:19:00.000-07:002011-06-13T18:19:00.261-07:00FOUR BOOKPLATESA Little About Menoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842541022310807805.post-705330442500527692011-06-10T18:19:00.000-07:002011-06-10T18:19:00.482-07:00BRUCE FEIRSTEIN quotation"Never settle with words what you can accomplish with a flame thrower." - Bruce FiersteinA Little About Menoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842541022310807805.post-64858932336999781302011-06-07T18:19:00.000-07:002011-06-07T18:19:00.303-07:00ANCIENT SEMETIC LANGUAGE - AKKADIAN - THE CHICAGO ASSYRIAN DICTIONARY PUBLISHED AFTER 90 YEARS OF TEAM RESEARCHLove this story... Akkadian is a Semetic language (last written 1900 years ago) and ancient form of Assyrian and after 90 years (and many academics) working on the project have finally published a dictionary. the dictionary gives us some idea of what people spoke in Mesopotamia!Oh how I admire linguists, since I have absolutely no talent with languages...Like anthropologists, they looked at tomb A Little About Menoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842541022310807805.post-65176002396860435812011-06-04T15:19:00.000-07:002011-06-04T15:20:36.284-07:00HARRY BERNSTEIN FIRST PUBLISHED AT 96 AFTER WRITING 40 BOOKS! OBITConnect now to the obit for this author, who late in life, received acclaim for his writing about a childhood effected by anti-semitism. He's compaired to one of my favorites, Isaac Bashevis Singer, as well as Frank McCourt, and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to work on this last (and only) published book!A Little About Menoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842541022310807805.post-2968519989547058112011-06-03T18:10:00.000-07:002011-06-03T18:10:00.327-07:00WALKER BROTHERS THE SUN AINT GONNA SHINE ANYMOREA Little About Menoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842541022310807805.post-42380473918123529992011-06-01T18:19:00.000-07:002011-10-07T13:08:38.161-07:00A Little About Menoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842541022310807805.post-88990287815228094672011-05-28T15:19:00.000-07:002011-05-28T15:19:00.707-07:00JOHNNY RIVERS KISS ME EACH MORNING FOR A MILLION YEARSA Little About Menoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842541022310807805.post-72512610271100649642011-05-21T13:19:00.000-07:002011-05-21T13:47:51.061-07:00CONSUMERIST CHRISTINE TRZYNA TWEAKED : THE ANTIDOTE TO MARKETING SELF VIA PRODUCTSHaving fun thinking about what products (chewing gum, nail polish, hair conditioner) I would endorse aside, lately the CONSUMERIST me has been tweaked by too many bad experiences with products and services which translates on the sales floor level to clerks who are jerks and on the corporate level to making hay while the sun continues to set.At a time when we all need to be stimulating our ever A Little About Menoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842541022310807805.post-36357060991461210032011-05-20T18:39:00.000-07:002011-05-21T13:19:37.656-07:00WHAT WOULD JACKIE DO? by SHELLY BRANCH and SUE CALLAWAYAn Inspired Guide to Distinctive Living.This book was interesting to me because of Jackie's life as a literary editor, but also First Lady, and icon. Like Andy Warhol, I suspect Jackie was, from an early age, extremely aware of herself as a product and of marketing.Page 18 Scoring Big with Courtly Correspondence."A woman with an erudite aura writes a main. She knows that words that flicker on a A Little About Menoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842541022310807805.post-24186263255106127312011-05-19T18:39:00.000-07:002011-05-19T18:39:00.556-07:00ISAAC ASIMOV quotation"If the doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I'd type a little faster." - Isaac AsimovA Little About Menoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842541022310807805.post-72254598315274388132011-05-07T18:19:00.000-07:002011-08-05T10:45:35.049-07:00DEBORAH TANNEN Quotation"Each person's life is lived as a series of conversations."- Deborah TannenA Little About Menoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842541022310807805.post-59903395905512684192011-05-02T15:19:00.000-07:002011-08-25T13:46:44.360-07:00LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK FAIR AT USC : CHANGE HARD TO TAKE REVIEW BY CHRISTINE TRZYNAAfter 15 years at UCLA, the LA TIMES BOOK FAIR, moved to University of Southern California (USC) campus this past weekend, and as I waited in line to attend Panel Discussions by book authors (memoirists) and Publishing Industry Professionals (The Book as a form is not dead but new innovative Reader forms may be the future), I talked with other attendees who told me the Bloggers were posting A Little About Menoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842541022310807805.post-78232633270911788102011-05-01T18:19:00.000-07:002011-05-01T18:19:00.660-07:00A Little About Menoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842541022310807805.post-80106660692194634702011-04-25T18:19:00.000-07:002011-04-28T12:39:36.329-07:00PARTIAL 500 YEAR OLD NUREMBERG CHRONICAL FOUND IN UTAH I ADVISE CAUTIONLink to the article by Brian Skoloff by clicking the title above.The book, found in Utah, is said to have been printed in 1493 and is a world history from biblical times and one of the "most lavishly illustrated books of the 15th century." However, I advise caution here for two reasons. First, I remember that a number of faked documents showed up in Utah and were bought by the Latter Day Saints A Little About Menoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842541022310807805.post-24562782471219653462011-04-20T06:19:00.000-07:002011-04-20T10:18:16.506-07:00NATIONAL POETRY MONTH : ACADEMY OF AMERICAN POETS LINK HERE!Link here to information on the National Academy of American Poets and APRIL which is National Poetry Month...Go ahead and write a poem! (And turn off those censors in your head!)A Little About Menoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842541022310807805.post-11858133510359797852011-04-17T18:19:00.000-07:002011-04-20T10:20:11.942-07:00HELP ME ID WHO SAID SOMETHING LIKE "THE NEGATIVE VOICE"is not more intelligent?"Who was it that said that we should not be swayed by the authoritative negative voice as more intelligent or knowledgeable than a positive one? This is not an advertisement for positive thinking by the way.A Little About Menoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842541022310807805.post-91312833142830857472011-04-15T18:19:00.000-07:002011-04-15T18:19:00.978-07:0068 PERCENT OF MY READERS USE INTERNET EXPLORERAnd Google Blogger is having a problem with INTERNET EXPLORER, meaning that posts are not holding paragraphs and other formatting. THEY PROMISE THEY WILL FIX THIS PROBLEM! Very soon we hope.A Little About Menoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842541022310807805.post-36631550381787311762011-04-10T18:19:00.000-07:002011-05-04T11:23:30.553-07:00LOVIN SPOONFUL DARLING BE HOME SOONI had a total kid crush on John Sebastian. (Much Older Men!?) These days I seem to be too pragmatic to really get crushes. This song though is about what we all really need in our lives - one person who is our touchstone. Totally trustworthy and dependable when there's a crisis. Some people who have no partners tell me they would go without sex if they could marry such a person.A Little About Menoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842541022310807805.post-16523879208658670592011-04-07T18:19:00.000-07:002011-08-05T10:41:19.891-07:00WHITE OLEANDER by JANET FITCH THE SECOND READ AROUND HAS ME THINKING ABOUT THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA POETRY SCENE A WHILE BACKRecently bought a copy of "White Oleander" by Janet Fitch at a library book sale, and immediately (again) became transfixed by the story of the poetess who poisons the poetry groupie who seduces and humiliates her and, most of all, the story of her daughter, who goes through a number of abusive homes in the LA County Foster Care System, while trying on various identities as part of her formative A Little About Menoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842541022310807805.post-38165782337538354392011-04-03T06:19:00.000-07:002011-04-03T06:19:00.677-07:00RUSSIAN LETTER IN A BOTTLEThis blog loves message in a bottle stories and here is another... "It said: "My name is Frank, and I'm five years old. My dad and I are traveling on a ship to Denmark. If you find this letter, please write back to me, and I will write back to you." "The letter, dated 1987, included an address in the town of Coesfeld. The boy in the letter, Frank Uesbeck, is now 29. His parents still live at the A Little About Menoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842541022310807805.post-28942910886206794572011-04-01T07:09:00.000-07:002011-06-25T14:32:52.407-07:00A Little About Menoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842541022310807805.post-6788658674177334972011-03-30T18:19:00.000-07:002011-07-26T16:50:42.655-07:00WILL TAISHA ABELAR'S NEW BOOK COME OUT TODAY - MARCH 30 2011 - AS PROMISED? A PUBLISHING MYSTERY STORY BY CHRISTINE TRZYNA"A new Taisha Abelar book is about to be released. It will be released on 30th March 2011, by Penguin: Untitled Sequel Sorcerer’s Crossing."Taisha Abelar, if you don't know, was one of the close devotees of the writer Carlos Castanada, one of his, if you will, "Witches," though perhaps what she was really was more of a "Sorcerer," or, if you will, simply a Yogini with a different cultural and A Little About Menoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842541022310807805.post-1006227079975622352011-03-27T19:09:00.000-07:002011-04-20T10:19:33.241-07:00SHAKE RUSSEL DEEP IN THE WEST Heard this song and "You Got A Lover" in the late 1970's at a club called Steamboat Springs in Houston Texas. The songs stuck with me. So many yearsyears later I was in a coffee house on Ventura Blvd in Los Angeles and I overheard some people talking about ordering Shake Russel tapes or CD's I went over to talk to them. Still going like all singer-songwriters do. Beautiful song. "Are you A Little About Menoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842541022310807805.post-35984203316521860332011-03-21T19:09:00.000-07:002011-03-21T19:09:00.836-07:00BEADWORK MAGAZINE'S CHALLENGE CREATIVE INSPIRATIONHaving designed some jewelry in my time, recently I started reading BEADWORK magazine, and I love the feature they call "The Challenge." A few designers receive the same assortment of beads and stones and metal elements and then do what they will with the package.They don't have to use all the beads provided and it seems to be OK if they use some of their own supply as well. Besides seeing how A Little About Menoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842541022310807805.post-1146638463544773532011-03-17T18:19:00.000-07:002011-03-17T18:19:00.276-07:00ELTON JOHN TINY DANCERA Little About Menoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842541022310807805.post-80916218506417491482011-03-14T18:19:00.000-07:002011-03-22T10:19:56.368-07:00HENRI MATISSE quote"Another word for creativity is courage." - Henri MatisseA Little About Menoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842541022310807805.post-84597141647380060512011-03-10T18:19:00.000-08:002011-03-10T18:19:00.924-08:00CHRISTINE TRZYNA BOOK REVIEW : OTHER PEOPLE'S REJECTION LETTERS Edited by BILL SHAPIROOTHER PEOPLE'S REJECTION LETTERS "Relationship Enders, Career Killers, and 150 Other Letters You'll Be Glad You Didn't Receive"edited by Bill ShapiroPublished by Clarkson Potter Publishers (Random House/Bertelsmann)OK, with a SUBTITLE LIKE THAT, WHO WOULDN'T WANT TO GIVE A LOOK-SEE? I like this kind of collection, scrapbook-like with it's reproductions of the actual letters including, it would A Little About Menoreply@blogger.com0