The Sunday Paper: Final Edition
I swear on a stack of Bibles or pancakes that this is really the very last time I’m doing this.
I’ll try to be nice, because that’s what’s expected. God forbid I have a controversial opinion about anything. (Ahem! Who set that rule? Probably some rando guy. The one who spoke loudest.)
So, defeating Bezos paywalls where we can, here we go:
My high school paper published a ‘pride’ issue. Then we got canceled. (Gift link!)
I’m reminded of my time back in college, when I fumbled my way through a weird explanation of a few differences of opinion between our overlords faculty advisor and the editors of The Citizen Call (a student newspaper and part of the J-school curriculum) (and I was the opinion page editor-shocking, huh?), after having been nearly thrust bodily toward a no-doubt bewildered Carl Bernstein.
Oddly enough, I ended up meeting Bob Woodward at the event Books Alive back in 2016. I also recall hearing something about how someone or other wasn’t going to mess with editorial stuff in The Washington Post. *cough* *cough*
And you wouldn’t believe what I went through to get that photo. I was practicing shoving the crowd aside much more persistent in approaching this half of “Woodstein.” 🙂 Just so I could do this!
I also have the faintest memory of a most odd discussion about “self-publishing companies,” a term I still don’t completely understand. If you self-publish, aren’t you then the publisher?
I also got to appear on a panel with James Grady, author of Six Days of the Condor. Which was adapted into this movie. (Those are both affiliate links, okay?) Here’s a slightly blurry photo of Jim and me.
I have to say here that both Woodward and Grady were super-nice people, something I’ve discovered about most writers, frankly. None of them put on airs, if you know what I mean. 🙂 Anyway, I was just so thrilled to be part of the exciting lineup. It was so exciting, my old publisher announced it here! Wow!
How disability advocate Alice Wong turned her anger into action. Spoiler alert! She wrote a book called Year of the Tiger: An Activist’s Life. Click the (affiliate) link to check it out on Debbi Mack’s Books and More. That’s my own online store. You can also get it from that company that starts with A. A as in … never mind.
Funny business: the legendary life and political satire of Art Buchwald.
A book review of Diary of a Misfit.
Yes, cryptocurrency. A wake-up call for anyone who denies it has deleterious effects on our environment. (Gift link!)
Is it cheating to use AI to create art? And who owns the copyright, assuming the AI eventually becomes sentient? Will authors with AI-generated transcripts, due or not to having one or two disabled hands, have to share credit and royalties and all that? Hmm? 🙂
If you have a Post subscription, you can read the same article with better pictures.
Marsha Hunt: Another person whose career was ruined by “the blacklist.” Not the “ good one,” of course. This one.
Now, here’s a reformer I can get behind! Fashion reform! Who needs a corset, am I right? (Oh, and that’s another gift link.)
A book review of The Godmother. And you would not believe what I went through to find this. But I documented my efforts on film video. One I may eventually turn into a documentary called “Debbi’s Search for Answers on the Internet” or something like that.
Take a trip to the Caribbean in Maryland. Way too surreal not to mention.
And then this popped up somewhere. (Another gift link!) I’m giving away the store when it comes to gift links, because … subscription economy. It’s the wave of the future, and we still have to put up with commercials. Go figure, huh? 🙂
I wrote my job, my life, into existence. What’s next? My final gift link in this Final Edition.
I’m just going to shut the fuck up. Now.
Originally published at http://randomandsundrythings.wordpress.com on September 12, 2022.
