Tayari's Blog: End O' The Week Links

Posted by TayariJones on August 8, 2008 03:28 PM
Filed under Travels & Rambles

  • I am the luckiest writer in the whole wide world! Look what Ladylee sent to encourage me as I try and finish my book. She knows how to make me laugh out loud. I love the plot suggestions. She keeps me real. (A disclaimer: the people she mentions are just characters and the violent acts they may or may not commit are all fictional!)
  • This Beyonce drama regarding the lightening of her skin for L'oreal isn't literary, but it does touch on some of the themes I write about. Check out this disturbing video about skin bleaching.
  • Jody Rosen was tipped off to another writer who was seriously plagiarizing her stuff!
  • Can you believe the feds are busting into libraries and confiscating computers?
  • My Spelman sister, Riche Richardson, is being feted internationally for her handmade quilts. Here is a YouTube Documentary.
  • This memoir sounds creepy. The thing that's interesting is the paragraph devoted to fact-checking. It seems the Gray Lady has learned her lesson at last.

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    Comment #1, by Ladylee [TypeKey Profile Page]

    *blank stare*
    *blink blink blink*
    *big crickets*

    Miss Celie, Miss Celie, Miss Celie.

    I TOLD you I was your Number 1 fan and I challenge whoever says I'm not to a DUEL!

    Pick your weapon: guns, shanks, or HOT grits! Don't matter to me since I will WIN!

    SOMEDAY you will believe me, chick! Someday!!!

    You do so much for me that I could at least send a "note" of encouragement (plus a few lovely plot suggestions).

    Tape that card up on your bathroom mirror and peer at it curiously whenever you need a good mental shove in the right direction.

    Glad it made you laugh.

    Keep laughing... and keep writing:)

    August 8, 2008 10:59 PM

    Comment #2, by Mea [TypeKey Profile Page]

    Beyonce does look a little..."un-sistah-gurl-esque," but moreso along the lines of "I need sun" versus "I'm Latoya Jackson." Kate's memoir does sounds creepy...and lotsa juicy. Will read. That envelope is so pretty and fluffy and I would hang it on my wall beside my ice blue CB2 desk...oh, sorry, that's you, Ms. Jones! If I had your mailing address, there's no telling what I may send...pictures, devotionals I wrote about you, books for you to sign that you didn't write...

    Wow. I think I'm scaring myself.

    August 9, 2008 01:11 AM

    Comment #3, by Judy [TypeKey Profile Page]

    They don't make friends or fans like Ladylee every day. What a nice move!

    August 9, 2008 12:14 PM

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