It’s exciting to have a finished project, and it’s hard to get noticed.
Alone, those are just the facts. But throw in someone who has just finished their first project, and witness the gory, inadvertent self-mutilation resulting from the LOOK AT ME! explosion.
Originally published in the Journal Inquirer Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2013
by Kristen J. Tsetsi
So “down wiv valentiney things”
“Down wiv love” I say.
Down with all the bears in mugs
IT’S JUST ANOTHER DAY!!
So reads the final stanza of the poem “Valentine Schmalentine” by Charlotte Scadeng, who submitted the poem to an Anti-Valentine’s Day poetry competition hosted some time ago by Daily Info, Oxford, an online guide for visitors to the city of Oxford, United Kingdom.
Scadeng’s entry didn’t win the competition; Anna Morgan took the prize with her untitled ode to an ex, the second stanza of which begins thus: “I hate you, you’re icky, you’re like an old leech. / I hate you, you look like a whale that is beached.” Continue reading
When I was interviewed a few years ago by an NPR personality, I was “coached” on one of my answers. S/he asked me a question, I answered, and then s/he moved the microphone to the side.
“What I was trying to get you to say was [phrase]. I’m going to ask you again.”
This editorial originally appeared in the Journal Inquirer.
By Kristen J. Tsetsi
My Facebook feed exploded with messages of outrage and ire over the weekend.
Representative Todd Akin, R-MO, had just said what will very likely go down as the gaffe of the political season.
In 11 days, I’ll turn 38. The strange thing about turning 38 is that two years later, I’ll turn 40, and 40 has always been “my father’s age,” even though he’s now in his 60s. When I think 40, I think “Dad.” And you never think you’re going to be as old as your dad. It’s especially confusing because seeing my dad as 40 means simultaneously seeing myself as 17 (which is how old I was when he was 40). 38-40-17… It’s discombobulating.
I’m also at an age, I’m finding, when Continue reading
(This entry is cross-posted at LIFT)
I wanted to fist-bump First Lady Michelle Obama when I learned that she had asked Hollywood’s writers and directors to “help ‘promote a better understanding and appreciation of the sacrifices made by military personnel and their families’ by integrating their experiences into TV, movie, and digital-media story lines.” 
This is something I’ve been approaching publishers with since 2007, when I started pursuing publication for Pretty Much True…, and something I recently discussed with a Hollywood type over the phone. Continue reading
[Originally posted at DailyKos]
When Charlie Sheen received wide, feature-length media coverage of his erratic, self-indulgent behavior while soldiers dying in Afghanistan received little to no mention by the networks, someone disgusted by the media’s priorities created Continue reading
