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Avoid "Present Face" this holiday season by buying that special someone A Kidnapped Santa Claus, Alex Robinson's chililng adaptation of L. Frank Baum's heartwarming holiday tale! http://search2.barnesandnoble.com/BookViewer/?ean=9780061782404

As near as I can tell, CMSes are born pregnant -- like tribbles.

This week we cover a bunch of items: Wolverine's hair, reality TV, Jaws and a Devil's Threesome. Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

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Thanks for joining us. To our American friends, have a fantastic Thanksgiving. To all of our international neighbors, we'll eat a little extra for you!

Dear Senate Democrats:

If, when all is said and done, it turns out that you've penised around for the best part of the year, and then ended up not passing a health care reform bill, no one's going to care if it was because a few of you felt like submarining it for 50 million of the rest of us was important, so that you could be remembered as having Stood By Your Principals as Moderates, or Conservatives, or whatever. Because if you do that, what's going to happen next is that as many of you as we can get rid of are going to lose your jobs. And then you can stand by your principals in the unemployment line.


Very best wishes,



Vern

So yesterday I had the quick thrill of going into a Barnes & Noble and seeing my new book, A Kidnapped Santa Claus, for sale. It was part of a big display of holiday themed books and man, there are a lot of holiday themed books. The book was not in the prime real estate, being faced out on one of the lower shelves. I considered pulling the old switcheroo, moving my book up to the top and some other book down, but there was a clerk sort of hovering around and I didn't have the guts.
When I got home and told the lovely Krsiten this story she chuckled and pointed out the irony: back when I was a bookstore clerk I hated it when authors would come in and pull that shit. I lamely tried to clarify that I wouldve tried to make it look neat and tidy (something the jerk authors never bothered to do when I was wokring there--they would just take their stupid book and prop it up in fronf of other books, making the shelf look messy and creating more work for me) but I admit she had a point.
Still, it was good to see it, and maybe I'll do the switcheroo once Christmas is a little closer.

Under the chair, Engels the kitty says, "Why are you addressing me? Do you not clearly see I am invisible?"

I had a dream the other night that the Fed started a print-at-home cash program online, so as to bypass the middle-man.