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Cynthia wants to know why I call Chantico (something you can order at Starbucks if you don't drink coffee) evil in a cup.
The answer: take cocoa butter and whole milk and steam it, resulting in something that tastes like a melted truffle. Six ounces (a tiny cup) = 390 calories, 21 grams of fat and 51 carbs.
Today's word count: 1,200.
To reward myself for continuing productivity, I'm going to make a list of words I don't like. No explanations; I just don't like these words and thus it's a safe bet to say you won't find them among the 1,200 I put down on paper today:
hubby
canker (as in 'canker sore')
maroon
utilize
lozenge
Also: Disturbing alert from Candy at Smart Bitches and also from Booksquare: there's a website called Bookaza (no link for them, no sirree) which calls itself an ebook retailer, but looks to be a pirate's den.
Pirate: Somebody who sells books or ebooks or other intellectual property without entering into a formal arrangement with the publisher, for which the publisher and author are not paid.
Two of my novels are being sold at Bookaza. And, to add insult to injury, they give those two novels a lousy three stars out of five. How very rude. If you're going to rob me, you could at least smile while you do it.
Finally, another disturbing bit, this one by way of the radiant Robyn Bender and her partners in crime, Cassandra and Rydra Wong. William Shatner, who will forever be Captain Kirk in the minds of the StarTrek fen, is now playing a lawyer on the television show Boston Legal. And so what, you ask. Well, this is what: he recently filmed a scene with James Spader, who also plays a lawyer. A sex scene; both the characters are gay. Do I care who William Shatner or Captain Kirk or Bozo the Clown sleeps with? No. I do not. Consenting adults, and all that. Is it possible that this is a beautifully done, well written scene? Well, sure. Anything is possible, but I do have my doubts, I must admit. Those doubts were intensified by this excerpt from an interview with the two actors concerning this particular scene, where Spader describes Shatner's body aroma like this:
"He had a very sort of, a strangely very attractive sort of pungent sort of gamey, sort of a venison or a lamb sausage... and a little bit of rosemary with a touch of ranch dressing."
For the whole horrifying interview, click here.