Freaking Comcast!!
By Nancy Lindquist | August 13, 2007
I’ve had a few e-mails asking where I am? Home, without internet, or phone!! Last Tuesday Comcast installed cable in the autistic boy’s room. He watches TV like it’s going out of style during parts of the day. Everyone else in the house has limited TV. Since Herne can multi-task like nothing I’ve ever seen, we allow a bit more. Apparently, when the guy installed it, he messed up.
Our cable modem, which carries our phone, would drop out and leave us without service for hours at a time. Gene, my husband, finally figured out the problem. He’s a genius!!!
He told the repairman what it was. The repairman said Gene was wrong.
Three visits later the repairman said he found the problem. It was in the installation last Tuesday.
If Gene was not a network engineer, maybe he would have been wrong. Gene’s pretty smart about wiring, though.
So, we have it back today. Just in time for me to get a stellar review for, “I Shagged the Sheriff!” I’ll post it as soon as it’s released.
Also got another royalty check. It’s gonna be a good week.
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Thursday Thirteen
By Nancy Lindquist | August 9, 2007
Thirteen Things I know/admire about Drag Queens. This is in honor of Freddie. My secondary character in, “Ladies! Meet Red Hot Alaskan Men.”
Many of the facts come courtesy of Wikipedia, and a friend of mine who hung out with drag queens and was kind enough to take me with him.
1. They are not all gay. Just because a man likes to put on a dress, does not mean he is gay. It’s not about sexual preference all the time.
2. Many drag queens do not like the term, “female impersonator.” They’re not trying to pass as women. It’s an art and they are a performer.
3. Most know how to apply flawless make-up. I don’t. I want a drag queen to be my older sister.
4. The term, “Drag Queen” came from the early twentieth century and a slang/language called Polari.
5. When a drag queen is in character you refer to her as, “She.”
6. Drag queens and transgendered people are NOT the same thing. A transgendered person is someone who was born the opposite gender, but had the wrong parts. A drag queen is a stage persona.
7. There is such a thing as a drag king. A woman who dresses and affects the attitudes of a man.
8. Drag queens smell better than me and I have no idea how they manage it. I could bath in perfume and never smell that good.
9. One of the best places to see drag queens is a gay pride parade. Those parades are more fun than a box of puppies and everyone who supports gay people should go.
10. Drag queens have better names than porn stars. I love a good drag queen name.
11. Some gay people criticize drag queens as undermining gays. Personally, it takes all kinds and I don’t think of drag queens as gay. Just butterflies, who flit around the world and add to its beauty, but I’m not gay.
12. Some feminists believe that drag queens make it easy to make fun of women. I’m a woman, I ain’t got nuthin in common with a drag queen. Darn it all, anyway.
13. I’d like to have a drag queen take me shopping for my next cruise ensemble. I’d look a whole lot better.
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Wordless Wednesday
By Nancy Lindquist | August 8, 2007
My father and Grandmother, 1925.
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Bat Boy We Hardly Knew Ya
By Nancy Lindquist | August 7, 2007
On Sunday Gene was driving us back from dropping the boys at camp. In the last row of seats, I was playing with Herne. Bored and grumpy, he’s been making his displeasure heard for the last fifty miles by alternately crying and tossing missiles toward the front of the van. Reasoning that we would be home soon, was not working. There’s no reasoning with a four year old.
So Gene stopped and I climbed in the back with him. Unable to talk, Gene turned on NPR in time for the news. News that brought the adults to stunned silence. The Weekly World News is closing shop.
That’s right, the home of bat-boy, aliens who talk to our presidents (really, does anyone doubt this?), Mother Nature and other oddities will soon be no more.
Apart from entertainment and ridicule in the check-out line at the grocery store, Weekly World News editions have frequented my home when I am ill. If I’m sick, you can find me pushing a cart with bad tabloid papers, ginger ale and Jell-O through the aisles. It’s more accurate than Mother Nature’s endorsement of Al Gore for President.
No longer will I furtively hide a issue under the bologna, so no one will see me buying it, as I cough, sneeze and sputter through my purse for my wallet. No more urgent discussions with Gene about the stories that have the boys wondering if we’re serious, or not.
By-bye to stories that claim computers can get allergies and have itchy watery eyes on smiley faces, Senior Citizens with Cooties and pigs the size of a hamster are all going the way of the albatros.
I’ll miss you, Weekly World News. The next time a cold has me too stopped up to work and whiny on the couch, I will look for your Chicken’s Eat People articles and sigh.
Thanks for some memorable colds.
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Bloggin!
By Nancy Lindquist | August 6, 2007
I’m doing my once monthly blog gig at, Passionate Prose, today. Come on over and take a peek!
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Whew Done!
By Nancy Lindquist | August 3, 2007
My last 2007 release, so far, has been edited and is back on the editors desk. Finally. I feel sort of free in a way I’ve felt after I was dumped. I need a new friend.
Time to start writing.
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Thursday Thirteen
By Nancy Lindquist | August 2, 2007
Thirteen Reasons To Read, “Ladies! Meet Red Hot Alaskan Men”
1. Freddie. How many books have a transvestite as the heroines best friend?
2. Alaska. I would love to live there. It’s a gorgeous state.
3. Good reviews! Romance Junkies gave it a great review! 4.5 out of 5.
4. It will both cool you off and heat you up!
5. It’s an e-book. You can take it to work and pretend you’re doing actual work, while you read it.
6. Window + M. If you have a Windows enabled keyboard, hitting the window key and the M at the same time will make the windows drop to the task bar. Very convenient when you are reading a book at the office and don’t want the boss to know.
7. Dave. He’s hot. A little grumpy, at first, but he warms up.
8. Chastity. She’s funny, interesting and uninhibited. Just like most women are. She can’t dress, but that all changes.
9. You get a mental walk through a newly renovated Chicago hotel.
10. Summer in Alaska is stunning.
11. Happy endings. Romance novels always offer a happy ending. Even if it’s very dark, before the dawn.
12. Everyone loves love.
13. Hot Alaskan men! Duh.
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Wordless Wednesday
By Nancy Lindquist | August 1, 2007
Bored? Don’t Eat!
Read a Book, Instead!
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By Nancy Lindquist | July 31, 2007
I once wrote a lady into a novel
and placed her in quite a hovel
I then made her darin
by marryin a baron
and now the hovel’s a haven
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Fan Mail
By Nancy Lindquist | July 30, 2007
I’ve had some fan mail over the past few days. I’ve never had much of that before and I have to say, it’s pretty neat. Nothing has really prepared me for this change in my life. As a result, I don’t craft witty and urbane replies. More like bumbling rambles. I’m sure the recipients of my replies wonder if I have a ghost writer.
Recently, I’ve had several people, good and bad, ask me if I got the idea for, “Ladies! Meet Red Hot Alaskan Men” from, “Men in Trees.” The answer is no. I’ve not even seen the program. I think it’s on opposite ER and I still watch that, even though it’s a bit of a Blackie infiltrated train wreck, these days.
The inspiration for, “Ladies” came from my friend, Bunti. She lives in Juneau and is a darn interesting person. I’ve been exchanging e-mails with her for almost two years now and her insights into Alaskan life are funny, warm and real. It was easy to craft a book. The truth is, I get most of my ideas in the shower. For every ten book ideas, one will pan out. This one did.
As for the fan mail. I feel sort of odd getting it, but I like it, most of the time. The really gushy ones make me wonder if they read my work? Cause I’m funny and sexy when I write, but not gonna win a Pulitzer anytime soon.
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