More Name That Movie

I had such a good time with this, I thought I'd do some more. *G*

Below are quotes from some of my favorite movies. Try to guess what movie each quote came from--and no cheating! Don't Google!! Leave your answers in the comment section, and I'll update the blog periodically with the correct answer and the person who guessed it.

Let the games begin!

1. It's all fun and games until someone gets shot in the leg. Armeggedon ~ Jennifer Y
2. It's the karmic credit plan. Buy now, pay forever. Dead Again ~ Maya
3. Children of the night... Shut up! Love At First Bite ~ Jennifer Y
4. Sell crazy someplace else. We're all stocked up here. As Good As It Gets ~ Maya
5. I'm looking at a tin star with a drunk pinned on it.
6. If I give you another face lift, you'll be able to blink your lips. First Wives Club ~ Maya
7. I picked a hell of a day to quit drinkin'. Independence Day ~ Jennifer Y
8. Life's a bitch. Now, so am I. Batman Returns ~ Jenna
9. It's great to be young and insane. Dream Team ~ Sam
10. I don't need a gun, I've got a Donk. Crocodile Dundee II ~ Jenna
11. You said "wet-shirt-don't-break", not "piss-shirt-bend-bars"! Shanghai Noon ~ Sue A.
12. D-E-D. Dead. Robin Hood Men In Tights ~ Jennifer Y
13. If we ever go to war with Utah, we'll really kick ass.
14. Curses only have power when you believe in them, and I don't. Practical Magic ~ Shannon & Maya
15. Yes, we have Nosferatu! We have Nosferatu today!




"I didn't discover curves; I only uncovered them." ~Mae West

Got Milk?

Milk. It does a body good!

Boy-howdy, does it ever...





"I wrote the story myself. It's about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it." ~Mae West

Cleaning Hunks

OMG, this is too funny. One of the Whiskey Creek Press Torrid authors listed this link on the Torrid Temptations blog the other day and, of course, I had to go see what it was about:

http://www.cleaninghunk.com/

I think there's something wrong with me. I sent one of the hunks, Brian, to clean the bathroom and, instead of admiring his muscles, I'm all "You're not doing a very good job" and "No! Don't wipe the floor and then go over the surface of the tub with the same rag!"

LOLLOL

I even had him dress like a gladiator and he strips down to just his little skirt pretty quickly. And he barely swipes down the bathtub and then he's "Well, I'm done. With time left over," and starts to do pushups. Phffft. Clean the bathroom! That's what I asked you to do.

Okay. So I thought I'd try one of the other guys. I pointed Jason toward the kitchen, and had him dress like a cowboy. He put some pine cleaner directly onto a sponge, wiped up a mess of something on the kitchen island (which was really pretty, by the way), then just kept wiping over the same spot with the same dirty sponge. Yikes! And he got hot and took off his shirt (of course). He asks if it's clean enough for me, and I'm staring at the computer saying, "No! You call that cleaning?!"

I wanna know--did these guys feel like total nimwads while they were shooting these videos? Really. It's funny rather than sexy.

At least, it is to me. Of course, I've already said there might be something wrong with me...

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I'm blogging over at Torrid Temptations today--if you want sexy, come over for a sneak peek at Sweet Treats, my contribution to the upcoming Christmas Candy anthology, and stick around for the yummy eye candy.




"Don't marry a man to reform him. That's what reform schools are for." ~Mae West

Happy Halloween!

This is my favorite time of year. So many of the TV channels are running monster movies--the old ones with Lon Chaney, Vincent Price, Boris Karloff...

The only thing I haven't seen playing are any of the Christopher Lee Dracula movies. Bummer. I love those--even in the one where he doesn't have one single speaking line, he is still really creepy scary! Nobody did Dracula like Chris Lee!


Frank Langella played a very sexy Dracula.


And Gerard Butler in Dracula 2000...


We get to see his naked bum (not here!). Need I say more? LOL

But I'll admit none of these are my favorite vampire movies. My favorite is Dracula: Dead and Loving It with Leslie Nielson. *G*





Be sure you check out the Amber Heat blog today--it's the last installment of our Halloween story, contributed by me!





"From ghoulies to ghosties and long-leggety beasties, and things that go bump in the night, Good Lord, deliver us!" ~Old Scottish Saying

More On IILAA

Well, with all the furor over the last couple of days regarding the newly formed International Independent Literary Agents Association, it appears they've closed down their brand new website. (At one point yesterday, they (and the more I read I believe the site was built by Barbara Bauer, who is in the "Twenty Worst Agents" list at Writer Beware) replaced the website pages with a ranting message and a "kiss my ass"--literally, complete with a picture. Talk about poor grace and extreme unprofessionalism. Which should make anyone think more than twice about using the sodding bastards. Okay, sorry about the foul language, but this kind of thing just pisses me off. It's unethical, immoral, and just downright evil. When I went back later, there was only a "I'm currently working on the site... Thanks for visiting" message. Guess she rethought the whole "kiss my ass" thing.)

The sad thing is, they'll be back. Under some other name, some other guise. Because they make money exploiting people's dreams. So they'll be back. That's what scam artists do. Someone else likened them to cockroaches--smoosh one with your shoe, and another one just scurries around, taking its place.

They make money because there are a lot of people out there who are desperate for their manuscripts to be published. Some of those people (not all, by any means) don't want to take the time or spend the money or effort it takes to hone their craft and do the research. If they did, and if they have the talent (which I believe is one of those "you either have it or you don't" kind of things), they'd be able to secure a reputable agent without paying any fees to the agent.

In case you don't understand the basic message of all this hubbub: Money flows to the author from the agent, not the other way around. A reputable agent will NEVER charge money upfront to his/her authors.

NEVER. EVER.

So... writer beware. If you're at a point where you're looking for an editor, be sure to check Preditors & Editors first. And do some research on the internet. If the agency you're looking at charges upfront fees, run away. If they don't list their current authors/sales on their website, run away. If they change their website and tell you to kiss their ass... RUN AWAY VERY FAST!

Be smart. Do your homework. And be ready to run.

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Part 5 of our Halloween story is running today at the Amber Heat blog. All leading up to Part 6--my contribution and the end of the story--tomorrow!




"A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives." ~Albert Schweitzer

New Scam In Town--IILAA

Or, rather, it's an old scam in new clothing.

The Writer Beware website created a list of the "Twenty Worst Literary Agencies", which has been circulating among writers for months now in the hopes of preventing newbie writers from being victimized by predatory scam artists.

Well, with all of the emails and blog posts, whenever someone enters one of those twenty agency names into a search engine, a warning pops up. And, in true scam artist fashion, some of those so-called agents have misdirected people once again.

How? you ask.

They've established a new website: The International Independent Literary Agents Association (IILAA). Their website is www.iilaa.com.

One of IILAA's web pages is "Top Ten Literary Agents". Of the nine agents listed, six of them are on the "Twenty Worst Literary Agencies." Hmph.

Oh, and their website also includes a statement that a writer should expect to pay their agent a retainer fee upfront, in the same way one expects to pay an attorney's retainer fee. This is a load of bull hockey.

Legitimate agents make their money from a percentage (usually 15%) of the royalties and advances on deals they've arranged for their clients. A legitimate agent does not charge upfront fees of any kind.

Let me say that again. A LEGITIMATE AGENT DOES NOT CHARGE UPFRONT FEES OF ANY KIND. Anyone who says otherwise is only trying to scam you.

We need to protect each other. Spread the word about the International Independent Literary Agents Association so that the search engine results will show it as a scam website every time someone searches the name.

(Update 1:25 p.m. MST: Here's the link to Victoria Strauss's post about the International Independent Literary Agents Association: http://accrispin.blogspot.com/2006/10/victoria-strauss-iilaa-or-what-you-do.html

And also, check out Miss Snark's blog on the same subject.)

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Check out Part 4 of the Halloween story at the Amber Heat blog.




"Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home; I'm tired." ~Mae West

The Definition Of "I'm Sorry"

Okay, all together now...

Awwwwwwwww. Isn't he cute?

*G*

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Part 3 of our Halloween story is posted today at the Amber Heat blog. Please go on over an enjoy it!





"The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself, too." ~Samuel Butler