Jennifer Crusie's Blog: Argh Ink

I’ve had it with Anthony Bourdain. Yes, he’s funny and he’s a terrific writer, but he’s also an ill-informed hypocritical jerk. My least favorite comment from him was on Twitter:

“Thinking of getting into the leg-breaking business, so I can profitably sell crutches later.”

Yes, Paula Deen clearly deliberately developed diabetes so she could sell drugs. Oh, wait, you didn’t know she had diabetes and was fronting for a drug company? Okay, let’s start over. read more >>

Susan Elizabeth Phillips just cleaned out her office and sent me a picture of it to show that she is once again superior to me in every way. I love her, but I fail to understand why she thinks a clean office is a good thing. She’s never going to find a rough draft on there that she suddenly knows how to fix because she lost it at exactly the right time. She’s never going to have everything she wants right under her fingertips (and elbows and keyboards) because she’s put it all away. She’s never going to have the delight of finding a half-eaten Snickers bar just when she needs it most. Really, is there any point in working in a place like this?

I think not.

Cross-Post Note: One of the many benefits of ReFab is that I don’t do personal whines here on Argh any more. OTOH, you are my people, and as Lani said when I waited to give her some information about what was happening in my life, “YOU TELL PEOPLE THESE THINGS.” So there’s a whine over on ReFab, which is also where I’ll continue to talk about stuff like health and houses and shampoo so as to keep Argh safe for posts about couches and obscene inns and–what was that other thing? Right–books. You can go anywhere you want in the comments, but I’m restricting my post whining to ReFab. Feel free to ignore the Very Bad Weekend post. It’s not very interesting.

Coming tomorrow on Argh: Susan Elizabeth Phillips gloats about her clean office once again. Other people send me pictures of their grandchildren, but not Susan . . .

This couch. I want it.

And this one, too: read more >>

This is the fourth in a series of Three Goddess Chats, brought to you by Krissie (aka Anne Stuart and Kristina Douglas), Lucy (Lucy March aka Lani Diane Rich), and Jenny (Jenny Crusie), who meet in a chat-room called ThreeGoddesses to talk about everything. Lucy and Jenny tend to write heroine-centered books (heroine as protagonist) like Lucy’s newest book, A Little Night Magic, in stores on January 31, while Krissie tends to go for hero-centered books, as in new series about fallen angels, The Fallen (Raziel, Demon, and Warrior, out in April 2012). So once again we got together in our Three Goddesses chat room to talk about what we know about heroines, heroes, and protagonists in general. Today’s topic: Heroes.

Lani: Heroes. What’s essential in a hero? You know, a lot of the same things I look for in a heroine. I want him to be smart, brave, have a sense of humor. read more >>