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Tonight at 7:30
Common Good Books
http://www.commongoodbooks.com/NASApp/s
It will be fun! Come on down!
ETA: can't respond to comments, still -- sorry.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/1
Sorry; can't respond to comments. Still have tendinitis.
tendinitis which should by all rights be spelled tendonitis wtf
If you love me do not email to see if I'm okay; responding will make it worse.
Unless you want to suggest shows I can watch on hulu. I apparently shouldn't hold a book, even, and I was JUST in the middle of a lovely Miss Marple.
ETA: make that 3 weeks
If you want one, Alan DeNiro's book Total Oblivion, More Or Less debuts today!
Full disclosure: I adore Alan DeNiro and he published my first short story, took me to my first WisCon, and is in one of my writing groups.
However, that does not take away from the fact that this is an amazing book.
Take a look at some of the reviews on his web site:
http://www.goblinmercantileexchange.c
The reviews will tell you the basic plot, which is that in the near future, ancient invaders will return to take over the planet and technology will get all screwy. Also there will be a super disgusting and incredibly imaginative plague.
I love this book because it is an adult book with a teen protagonist, which is so rare since publishers get antsy about this but it should happen more often. I love it because it is weird as FUCK (one reviewer, at TOR, I think, complained that it was weird "just to be weird," and I thought: wait a minute. That's a bad thing?). I love it because it is an incredibly well-put together story on its face but it also has enormous amounts of resonance on a metaphorical and political level.
It's everything I think a fantasy book should be: surprising, interesting, fantastical, upsetting, and bizarre, with an incredibly strong protagonist and voice.
Books like these, and writers like Alan, don't come along every day. I want it to do fantastically, not only for Alan, but also so that other weird and wonderful books will be given a chance.
So please go out and buy seventeen books apiece. Thank you.
You can buy it straight from Random House:
http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/disp
Or, of course, amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Total-Oblivion-Mo
http://www.disabilityscoop.com/2009/1
More in-depth story (the first skips the fact that she did research and found a doctor who has a protocol for this, and the fact that he was probably starving):
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/AutismNews/mo
I will admit this story gave me pause. How can you give a kid pot? I thought to myself. He can't really give his full consent, blah blah blah.
Then I remembered: I am giving my kid the equivalent of crystal meth, basically. With the full support of the medical establishment. And no one has tried to scare me with "development of psychosis and schizophrenia."
Let me tell you: if every person who was a habitual pot user developed psychosis and schizophrenia -- hell, if one FOURTH of habitual pot users developed psychosis and schizophrenia -- we'd be up to our eyeballs in psychotic schizophrenics.
Which we aren't. Utter pap, these scare tactics. When are people going to stop seeing pot as some sort of boogeydrug?
Edited to Add: I do not believe this conflicts with my earlier posts about radical treatments. If researchers were actually WILLING to test pot, and there had been no clinical proof that they helped, I'd call it a wacko treatment, too. But no one will fucking test it.
Someone at the Chicago Tribune is on a MISSION:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/health/ch
Note the related stories in the lefthand column.
Such a joy to see reporters who understand the basic tenets of investigative journalism instead of someone who lazily throws in a Jenny McCarthy quote next to a quote from a well-regarded doctor and calls it a day.
I had to laugh when I saw the rules for posting over at the State Journal Register in Springfield, IL. #5 states: "5. Don't say anything here you wouldn't say in front of your mother at the dinner table."
They have obviously never been to MY dinner table.
From the Chicago Tribune: "Therapies amount to uncontrolled experimentation on children, investigation finds:"
http://www.chicagotribune.com/health/ch
It's nice to see reporters actually DOING THEIR JOBS. The article underscores a few things: