Quacking Alone

I will not eat it with a spoon.  I will not ponder it all through June.  I do not want heartache stew. Sunshine, Sunshine how could you? 

‘Tis said that one of the real deal couples on the show will be calling it quits this season.  The cause of the breakup is “a very serious issue” that they can’t get past.  ‘Tis also said that there’s gonna be a new hook up on the show.  And the new hook-up allegedly involves McSteamy reconnecting with his man whore roots. People are speculating that the break up will not involve the dream team (Mer/Der).  But the grist for everyone’s mill has been the same as the grist churning around in mine – Sunshine says the finale will be a game changer for every single character; see links above and this one. 

So, Grey’s fans, this Thursday’s episode – “Hook Line & Sinner” – will be the first new one in several weeks and it will begin the march to the finale.  Now’s the time for all Grey’s fans to strap on the swami hat and commence speculating.  I’ve got mine on and I’m reaching under the sofa for my crystal ball – man that thing is dusty.  

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Giving a digital reading device to a devoted and addicted long time romance reader is a lot like giving a kid a lifetime pass to Disneyworld.  It’s also like giving the reader’s family a new lease on life.  My house has romance novels in nearly every nook and cranny.  See, I don’t just read the books – I save them.  

If I get a yen to read a particular book, the search through the stacks will first send books flying around a couple of different parts of the family room. Then it’ll send them headed out the door of my youngest son’s walk-in closet.  Finally, in desperation, it’ll even cover the macho floor of the male holy land – our garage.   I haven’t touched one of the paper books since Christmas – but I haven’t replaced them all (yet) with digital versions, so one day it’ll happen again, I’m sure.  But it’ll happen a lot less often.

My very first ebook purchase was of a single title.  It helped me try out the device.  I have a Sony Pocket Reader which is an excellent way to enter the market.  It doesn’t have wi-fi or a 3G wireless function so I can’t surf the web or check my email.  All it does is display ebooks but it does that very well.  One thing I adore is that it is sized so that it fits right in my purse.  One day, I may upgrade to a wi-fi or 3G enabled device, but that market is shaking out so much now that it constantly reminds me of how smart my hubby is.  My computer guy spouse says never adopt a new platform or technology (or software) until the kinks have been worked out and the price settles down.

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… it’d be just as unoriginal as all the others, but a good bit more honest about it. (link for the embedding-impaired)

Includes a jab at Grey’s Anatomy starting at 1:51.

Made back in 2008 just after the TV writer’s strike was over.

All video clips used in this work are copyrighted by their respective owners and are for parody purposes only.

This week two couples on Grey’s Anatomy were talkin’ babies.  Will it go beyond the talking stage?  Will the stork drop off a bundle or two to some of Seattle Grace’s finest? 

Yeah, yeah, I know that when Ellen Pompeo was pregnant she and Patrick Dempsey sat down with Shonda Sunshine and suggested that Sunshine write the blessed event into the show. And yeah, I realize that Sunshine said no.  I’ve heard that she’s hinted/said/implied (take your pick) that there wouldn’t be a McBaby.  But I’ve heard other things too, and Sunshine does like to keep the fans guessing. 

Recently, on the March 25th edition of the Ausiello Files, Sunshine did a guest blog post about this season’s finale.  And she who created the McDreamy world says that it’s “the kind of finale that changes everything.”  She called it a “GAME. CHANGER.”  Emphasis and punctuation – Shonda’s.   

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And they found the stone rolled away from the sepulchre.

And they entered in, and found not the body of the Lord Jesus.

And it came to pass, as they were much perplexed thereabout, behold, two men stood by them in shining garments:

And as they were afraid, and bowed down their faces to the earth, they said unto them, Why seek ye the living among the dead?

He is not here, but is risen…

May you have a happy and joyful Easter!

Once upon a time, a handful of publishing companies decided what Americans could read.  Those companies lived in the great literary castle.  No common writers were admitted to the castle.  The publishing royals would periodically admit certain citizens that they deemed worthy to petition them on behalf of the common writers. By and large, most of the worthy citizens had either worked in the castle in years gone by, or they had worked for other worthy citizens that the royals had known for years. It was an insider’s paradise and no outsider need apply.   

The worthy citizens had the loathsome job of dealing with the commoners in the Kingdom.  Someone had to do it and it wasn’t going to be the royals themselves.  After all, the royals couldn’t dirty their hands by working directly with those who created the products that paid for their castle.  No, let the worthy citizens deal with the rabble.  Best of all, the worthy citizens not only protected the royals from the rabble, the royals didn’t even have to pay the worthy citizens.  The worthy citizens took their fees from the rabble’s proceeds.  A cut of the bounty paid by the royals to the rabble rightly belonged to the worthy citizens. ’ Twas a small enough price for their having to deal with the commoners and sort through their barrage of products to find the work that worthy citizens thought would be deemed acceptable by the royals.

Most of the commoner’s notions got rejected by the worthy citizens.  Those esteemed folks worked and socialized directly with the royals and knew what the royals would and would not deem worthy.  Or at least, they believed that they knew.  And the worthy citizens did not, as a rule, challenge the royals to accept something too new or too different.

And thus was born — the sacred system.

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