About notthatCindyCrawford
I like books, music, movies, television, sports, food, travel, learning, laughing and sitting around thinking. This blog is a place for me to have fun writing about the things I love. Let me know how I’m doing.
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As a kid, I used to run home from school, up a big hill, in order to watch Dark Shadows. This is the show that generated my lifelong love for vampires, werewolves, witches, warlocks, time travel, ghosts, parallel universes, and nearly every other type of supernatural and fantastical character and event possible. The show...
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Baseball season is here again! Sometimes I’m not sure why I get so excited about Opening Day. I do love baseball, although college football is my favorite sport to watch on tv. Still, there is something special about baseball, the calming, almost Zen-like slowness of a game that isn’t driven by a ticking clock....
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As I wrote last week, we’ve been having unseasonably warm weather here in Michigan. Everything is flowering and budding, and it looks more like late May or early June than March. The warmth has lasted long enough to convince me spring is here—I can tell because I suddenly got the urge to listen to...
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Decisive is a word rarely used to describe me. And by “rarely” I mean never. I’ve more or less learned to cope with this in my real life, but it has caused problems for me as I try to write this novel. The main problem is that every time I make a decision I...
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The bad news is that I’ve made very little progress writing my novel in the last week. The good news is that my apartment is much cleaner. See, procrastination can be your friend! I did make a decision about the novel that will ultimately be a good thing, I think, but that for now...
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In a few minutes I’m heading out to buy Bruce Springsteen’s new cd, Wrecking Ball. This will be the 15th or 16th time I’ve rushed out on release day to buy his music, starting with Darkness on the Edge of Town back in 1978. Over the years the urgency to hear the music RIGHT...
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To follow up on my graphic novel post last week, here’s another take on how female superheroes are pictured in comics. Since in this case a picture really is worth a 1000 words, I’ll just let you take a look. Be prepared to laugh, and then become thoughtful. male superheroes wearing female superhero costumes...
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A week or so ago I wrote about my somewhat belated effort to outline my novel and how hard I found the process. This week I have to confess that I’ve abandoned the process, although not intentionally. My progress slowed and slowed until eventually it came to a standstill as I completely ran out...
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A few weeks ago I wrote a post about how I couldn’t read all the books on my to-read list if I lived to be 150 years old. The very last thing I needed was another type of book to add to my growing list. So I spent the last week reading (and buying)...
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Here’s an example of understatement: The book industry is in turmoil right now. Spend just a few minutes on the internet and you’ll find a wide variety of people gnashing their teeth and climbing up on their soapbox to proclaim what’s wrong and how to fix it. According to the site you read, Amazon...
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