Irene Eng The Kibbitzer

This is true, unfortunately.
Anne-Solange Noble, the foreign-rights director at Gallimard in France, said American publishers did not support translated books with marketing budgets and then complained when sales failed to dazzle, and was amused — but also appeared irritated — when she recounted running into an American publisher who, on the first night of the [...]

 
The fall wine tasting today at Joe’s has becoming North Fork that attracts single young women.  They looked out of place.  Ha .. single men will follow?  God, pls don’t turn it into a pick up joint!
The chubby lady was there but the young kid wasn’t, so was the music (wo)man.

Today I found one junk mail in my in-box:
Sender: Barack Obama
Subject: Join our campaign.
He’s out spending McCain.
The winning ticket would have been McCain/Rice, imho. .. But if McCain loses, at least we know he has a happy marriage, imho again, from Cindy’s star struck by John’s fame and the strength of his personality, to [...]