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My Romancing the Blog post is up - apparently I’ve made people cry.

Inga Mahn lost just about everything due to Hurricane Katrina. Seriously: her house? It’s gone. Not destroyed, not demolished. Gone. Poof.

Amy E., that magnificent bitch, has organized a series of auctions in her benefit, to help her and her family rebuild. Sarah and I agreed to contribute the following items for auction:

Three months worth of ads, including ad design.

An author interview, wherein you get to pimp yourself, your books, and hell, whatever you want to, up to and including your fabulous perm.

A manuscript critque--a FULL manuscript critique, bitches, not just the usual partial + synopsis.

BID, MOTHERFUCKERS. Don’t make us look bad, or we’ll cut choo like a peeeg.

Plus, you’ll be helping out Inga.

Sunday afternoon, watching the Steelers game, and creating SBTB prizes, Sarah and Hubby had the following conversation:

Sarah: Oh my God.

Hubby: What?

Sarah: There is a romance novel.

Hubby: Yeah?

Sarah: Called What an Earl Wants

Hubby: NUH UH.

Sarah: YEAH HUH.

Hubby: That is just AWESOMELY bad.

Sarah: I know. Wow. 

Here’s a fun toy, though I haven’t gotten the best of results with it: What Should I Read Next?.

Enter a book you like and their database of real readers’ recommendations will suggest something.

I saw the link to this hilarious article about female porn on HelenKay’s blog a few days ago, and meant to make fun of it. Unfortunately, a shiny object came along and distr--oh, hey, look, disco ball!

Whoops, where was I? Anyway, yeah, this article? HILARIOUS. Read it. Pay attention to their definition of what’s pornographic, to wit:

pornography – 3: the depiction of acts in a sensational manner so as to arouse a quick intense emotional reaction

I’m not going to bother deconstructing the article, because, well, it’s just too goddamn easy, and it doesn’t offer anything new that I haven’t yelled about a bunch of times already on this forum. I will, however, provide lots of links to some primo prurience, going strictly by their definition of what constitutes pornography.

Badly-drawn religious tracts: PORN-O-RAMA!

I always thought she was batshit insane, but now I know better: she’s pornographic too!

Porn for Democrats and Liberals!

Not to neglect the other side: Porn for Republicans and Conservatives!

Unf unf unf unf: Meatpackers are sexxxxxxy

OMG! Porn involving UNBORN CHILDREN!!!!!!!!! (Mo’ exclamation points = mo’ outrage)

Actually, come to think of it, the article itself is pretty pornographic. Look at how it sensationalizes the act of reading or watching a movie (I mean, COME ON: “When a single woman leaves a steamy chick flick only to return home alone to her cats and tub of ice cream, a part of her breaks—the heart part”? BWAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA), all in the name of arousing shame and outrage.

Porn-mongers: they’re everywhere. Are YOU protected?