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February Contest Image
Try your hand at coming up with a winning caption!
Meet Jane Benson!
Jane and Andrew
Jane Benson and I e-met two and a half years ago when she contacted me to inquire about writing for me. It wasn’t until this past summer, though, when we finally met face-to-face, that we knew unequivocally that we had been separated at birth.
You Can’t Always Get What You Want…
… unless, of course, you’re me. And this is what I want:
For the last few months I’ve been finding it harder and harder to reconcile myself with the fact that caption contest runners-up get zippo. So I’ve decided to change the rules. As we approach holiday shopping season, the timing seems perfect for a little low-key largesse, so starting with the October runners-up (sorry all you runners-up from September, August, July…) runners-up will receive $20 gift certificates to our e-store. It’s not lot, but fortunately our products are very reasonably priced. So forget about five golden rings and think magnets… or lip balm… or coin purses… or…
Mean to Men
I truly appreciate you all – especially you men – trying to convince me that I’m not mean. But if I am to be completely honest, perhaps I am just the teensiest bit mean to men. I take comfort in the fact that I’m equally mean, or perhaps even more mean, to women. I love women, and I love men… I just seem to have a slight personality disorder.
This might be a good time to reveal that yes, indeed, we do have male writers. Check out these wonderful magnetic postcards from Ron Lavine, Marc Bouchard, and my brilliant buddy Gary Briggs.
Thanks, guys!
Greetings from Maine!
I thought I remembered how heinous moving was… and I remembered it as hell. But I am here to tell you that it’s far worse than that! The movers arrived with a van full of my studio 12 days ago, and I have still not assembled it into any kind of order. AND my laser copier is broken. Those of you who know what a dinosaur I am know that I use the old scissors-and-glue method to put captions on images… so I can’t possibly post the finalists of the June caption contest until that copier is functioning and/or replaced. I sincerely apologize for the delay, and I appreciate your patience.
Meanwhile, the image for the July caption contest is up at last! This image appeared in my line back in 1999 with the caption “golly! that was fun!” My mother thought it was pornographic. I’d like to bring this wonderful image back, but I don’t want to offend the sensibilities of my mother or of our many, many other fans who prefer not to think about sex. I think she looks as though she’s relaxing after a lovely warm soak. Or perhaps contemplating the joys of the day ahead. The perfect caption not only snags the writer a $100 gift certificate to our e-store… it may also rate inclusion in our product line!
Years ago the niece of this model called me. She told me that when her aunt was a teenager she lived on Staten Island and yearned to be a star. One day she ditched school, made her way to this photo shoot in Manhattan… and then was grounded for life. The niece promised to dig up a photo of her aunt when she was crowned the winner of her nursing home beauty contest 60 years later. (If you are out there, niece, I’m still waiting.)
Congratulations Jennifer Egan!!!
I’ve been telling people for months that Jennifer Egan’s A Visit From the Goon Squad is the best book I’ve read in many, many years (if not ever). I was totally delighted to turn on my computer this morning and learn that her book had won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. GO JENNIFER!
I was first introduced to Ms. Egan through her book The Keep. For some reason it was on my “to read” list, but every time I picked it up and read the jacket I thought “I don’t want to read this.” Finally I read it. I loved it.
Then my husband brought home Goon Squad. I read the jacket and said “I don’t want to read this.” GREAT book.
And now I have Ms. Egan’s Emerald City waiting on my Kindle. I’m putting off reading it the way I put off eating my Halloween candy as a child. I don’t want to start because I don’t want it to be over.
The good thing about getting older: I can probably read Goon Squad as soon as my friend Mick returns it and get exactly as much delight from it as I did on the first reading.
Read Jennifer Egan!
