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Happy Fourth of July!

I am going to shamelessly copy dsudis and offer this quote:

"I'm a patriot. I love my decadent, cosmopolitan, self-indulgent, racially-mixed, godless, intellectually dilettante, drug-abusing, promiscuous, queer-loving country. And its flag is the Stars and Stripes."
--Patrick Nielsen Hayden

Read it while you listen to Marvin Gaye's rendition of the Star-Spangled Banner (found via moominmama).

After all that, if you're a slash fan, you might want to wander over to con_txt and take the utterly goofy "Independence Day" poll.

Non-Independence-Day content:

A couple weeks ago, my all-time-favorite romance writer, Jennifer Crusie, posted in jennycrusie that she'd mail a free copy of her brand-spanking-new, not-yet-in-stores novel (a collaboration with Eileen Dreyer and Anne Stuart) to the first 50 bloggers to fill out a request form.

I submitted that form so fast, I left off my mailing address and had to start over.

Given my screw-up, I thought my entry might not even have gone through -- plus I was probably the 53rd or 110th person to fill out the form. So the other day when RM went through the mail and said, "Hey sweetheart, did you order a book from Jennifer Crusie?" I was pretty much jumping up and down and squealing pleasantly surprised.

Of course, the book was sent with the expectation that I'd review it. So here goes: ( The Unfortunate Miss Fortunes )

( Movie seen: Live Free and Die Hard )