LB: Why I’ve Been Crushing on Stevie Nicks for Lo! These Many Years

Nope, sorry, it’s neither her singing nor her songwriting nor her dancing. It’s something far more meaningful than all that. It’s thing like this comment about Nicki Minaj on The Daily.Com:

How dare this little girl! … If I had been Mariah I would have walked over to Nicki and strangled her to death right there….I would have killed her in front of all those people and had to go to jail for it.

Woman’s still got um/er, you know: Balls.

All the Cool Guys R Drummers

Gene Krupa, Bill Cosby,  Billy Bob Thornton, Buddy Rich, Johnny Carson, Jimmy Kimmel, Keith Moon, David Letterman, Mel Torme, John Bonham, Fred Astaire, David Chase, Larry Brody…

Oh, and these two guys:

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LB Sees LOUIE – LATE SHOW (3-Parter)

The Good:

  • Spot on, as true-to-life as mass entertainment has ever gotten
  • All those inspiring ROCKY allusions
  • This is the greatest argument ever made on television for not going into any business that has to do with showbiz

The Not-So-Good: read article

Peggy Bechko Loves Writing About Writing

…Lucky for us!

Readers – Wonder how Writers Do It? – by Peggy Bechko (from Peggy’s blog)
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Peggy Bechko Writes More About Writing

From novelist Peggy Bechko’s uberhelpful blog:

Writer – Tell Your Readers Only What They Need To Know! – by Peggy Bechko (from Peggy’s blog)

As writers, it’s good for us to think a bit about how the brain works and what it’s really looking for in many things, but for us the important issue is what does it want from a story? read article