“From the front room came the scratchy sound of a needle hitting an old vinyl record. Nina Simone’s sultry yet sorrow-filled voice came blaring out, wailing for us to take her to the water to be baptized. The sorrow soon turned to joy, and the piano gave way to drums as Nina demanded, pleaded, to be baptized….I felt Nina’s drums throbbing in my ears, as though I was marching at the head of a king’s funeral procession, with an entire village in my wake.” – Nadia, from the story “In the Old Days.”
My MEdia Blog, aka filler of eclectic ironies, has just reached a readership of 1,111,111. Thank you for visiting over the years. I never thought when I started blogging that I would have so much to share with all of you.
It has been a labour of love and I have enjoyed and am still enjoying the journey. For the life of me, I cannot recall why some topics are more dear than others. Some highlights include almost 10,000 posts and most of them deal with trends in literature, politics and music. At this rate of page views, it will take another 18 years before we achieve the next key milestone of 2,222,222 hits ;-)
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@PublishersWeakly Skewers The Publishing World With Uncomfortable Critique
“As it currently stands, the publishing industry largely serves the interests of the wealthiest higher-ups, and that is the entire reason for any financial strain on publishers without the capital of a corporation. The larger publishers could easily take the risks that smaller publishers do. The only reason for smaller presses to be working with less is because that’s simply how the system has been engineered to function.” – Electric Lit
‘There haven’t been very many women in my life. But there have been a few. As many as any man of average unattractiveness might have, when he acts kindly and knows when to insist. I’m not boasting, as I know any number of acquaintances of mine, taller and darker and better looking, who have had ten times the number of “conquests”.’