Part of my assignment for the new Kids On Wheels magazine is writing serial fiction. I haven't written fiction in many years, and when I did, it was for teenagers; the KOW audience is 8-12 years old. I'm quietly freaking out, wondering how on earth I'm going to meet this challenge. I know I'll come up with something, but will it be anything anyone would ever want to read? To start my mind working along age-appropriate lines, I've been re-familiarizing myself with classic books for the reading level. I chose five: The Phantom Tollboth by Norton Juster, A Wrinkle In Time by Madeleine L'Engle (one of my favorites when I was that age), the incomparable Harriet The Spy by Louise Fitzhugh, From The Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg, and the modern classic Holes by Louis Sachar. Everyone should read Holes , it is brilliant. It was also make into an excellent movie, with a screenplay written, thank goodness, by the author. All this r...
Sounds like something Sam The Man Jackson would say... ;)
ReplyDeleteWearing my stupid hat.
ReplyDeleteitmfa? Is the mf what I think it is?
Probably. Click and find out!
ReplyDeleteGood old Dan Savage. His previous meme was to create a definition for the word "Santorum" that would appropriately honour the senator of that name.
ReplyDeleteIf you haven't heard of that one, just Google "Santorum" -- it's the first result. However, it's not for the squeamish -- If you think you might be offended by it, then you probably will be.
Oh yes, santorum. Disgusting, but well-deserved.
ReplyDeleteI have my issues with some of Dan Savage's politics, though. He's a leader in the "blame Nader" camp, and feels anyone who doesn't support the Dems, no matter what, is a traitor.
It's hard for me to understand that, given what little the Democrats have done for us.
But I love his column, of course.
Click on it? What a novel concept. I must have been really befuzzled yesterday.
ReplyDeleteI clicked. Funny that I got the mf right but couldn't figure out the rest.
Santorum - can't say I wasn't warned.
ReplyDeleteThis is great -- must order a t-shirt.
ReplyDeleteCrabbi, I knew you'd enjoy it. :)
ReplyDeleteI was telling my daughter J about this yesterday. She thinks the acronym is kind of lame. "No one will know what that means, and isn't the point to get people to think? " she said. Nope, not in this case. In this case, I get to be part of a really club and maybe I'll run into other people with ITMFA gear and we can wink and smile at each other.
ReplyDeleteBut I will never wear a santorum t-shirt. Just thinking about santorum actually makes me physically ill -- both the frothy mixture and the senator. OTOH, as you say, he deserves it.
Just thinking about santorum actually makes me physically ill -- both the frothy mixture and the senator.
ReplyDeleteAmazingly, the senator nauseates me more than the substance. Although I must say your use of the word "frothy" gives it s special stomach-turning kick.
Oh, I can't take credit for "frothy." I think that is Mr. Savage's word.
ReplyDeleteYou're right about Santorum; he's far more disgusting than any substance. Anyway, who am I to judge other people's substances? But Santorum? Him I'll judge.