Yesterday, I watched a hawk circle a body of water, and I began to question what I was doing with my life. And then I felt like I was going to cry when I was interrupted by a young couple with a baby in a knapsack on the dad’s back. They were all wearing the same biodegradable sandals. I hated the lot of them so much I could barely contain myself.
Which reminded me of other things I hate with a passion:
- The phrases “back in the day” and “24/7.”
- Single spaced manuscripts.
- Any sentence that begins, “To be perfectly honest.”
- Rejections letters that use “not my cup of tea.”
- Query letters that refer to “fictional novels.”
- When an editor sends a rejection letter that ends with: let’s have lunch.
- Cute fonts.
- When a writer says they’ve made tons of revisions and they haven’t.
- A certain someone at William Morris who has not returned my call.
- The way my mother makes a sour face when you suggest having Japanese food.
- Not smoking.
Filed under: The End of the World as We Know It |
Betsy Lerner 
Caught you on a bad day, did we? Perhaps not smoking 24/7 isn’t such a good idea after all…
Thanks for the chuckle. Betsy
Drag Me to Hell
1hr 39min – Rated PG-13 – Horror/Suspense/Thriller – Trailer – IMDb
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247 W 42nd St, New York, NY – Map
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312 W. 34th St., New York, NY – Map
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570 Second Ave., New York, NY – Map
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181-189 Second Avenue, New York, NY – Map
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2310 Broadway, New York, NY – Map
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Mayfair Triplex
6405 Park Avenue, West New York, NJ – Map
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1538 Third Ave., New York, NY – Map
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Regal Battery Park Stadium 11
102 North End Avenue, New York, NY – Map
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3125 Kennedy Blvd, North Bergen, NJ – Map
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Edgewater Multiplex Cinemas
339 River Road, Edgewater, NJ – Map
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1214 Summit Avenue, Union City, NJ – Map
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30-300 Mall Drive West, Jersey City, NJ – Map
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35-30 38th Street, Long Island City, NY
11:45am 2:20 4:55 7:45 10:20pm
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2309 Frederick Douglass Blvd., New York, NY – Map
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106 Court Street, Brooklyn, NY – Map
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42-17 Queens Blvd., Sunnyside, NY – Map
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214 East 161st Street, Bronx, NY – Map
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75 Challenger Road, Ridgefield Park, NJ – Map
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40-31 82nd Street, Jackson Heights, NY – Map
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701 West 181st Street, New York, NY – Map
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6817 5th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY – Map
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701 Route 440, Jersey City, NJ – Map
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191 Lefante Way, Bayonne, NJ – Map
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1450 East Avenue, Bronx, NY – Map
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College Point Multiplex Cinemas
2855 Ulmer Street, Whitestone, NY – Map
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2784 Linden Boulevard, Brooklyn, NY – Map
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405 Route 3 East, Clifton, NJ – Map
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oops. that was obviously meant for the next day’s post.
Betsy– that hawk circling the water thing– ala James Wright’s poem? xxj