Random thoughts and links

Lights

I am always moved by a family who puts up a holiday display outside their home -- it's like they go to all this work just to bring cheer to strangers. Especially a holiday like Thanksgiving that normally doesn't elicit decorations. Thanks to the people a few blocks from me who did this. There are some Halloween lights in the window too.

I have a lot to be thankful for this year, way more than just turkey...

Interesting writing links

Below is a link to a somewhat frustrated post by young-adult agent Nadia Cornier, on why she gets so personal on her blog. This post was a reaction to someone who criticized her for being too personal. But also has interesting comments on the writing industry, and why she became an agent instead of a writer:

http://agentobscura.livejournal.com/66859.html

Here is an article published in the Village Voice this week on the struggles of writers who are published at a young age, like Ned Vizzini who briefly ended up in a psych ward last year:

http://www.villagevoice.com/arts/0646,wigginton,75019,12.html

TV or not TV

I am enjoying Season 6 of the Sopranos. Fast forward over the dream sequences and it's riveting.

Still have to catch the special "General Hospital" today.

Luv that guv

Yesterday evening, I managed to snag a copy of James McGreevey's book "The Confession" from the local library (Sorry but I didn't want to buy it). Here is a quote from page 233:

"When we finished our lovemaking, our thoughts returned to the enormous task we shared, building an administration from scratch in just two months, governing in a post-9/11 world."

Wow. Most people would have just smoked a cigarette.