Jane Gassner

Decent political news from the House

02.02.2006

The Republicans at last got rid of eau de Tom DeLay by electing Boehner as their new majority leader. He defeated Blunt of Missouri, who was DeLay’s little pal. Boehner is described as having “feuded” with DeLay in the past. Clearly a man of integrity–and now, it seems, foresight.

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James Frey and Hunter Thompson

02.01.2006

Read in Leahpeah’s interview with Jon Armstrong that he admired Hunter Thompson. Followed that link to Wikipedia where I read that “Central to gonzo journalism is the notion that journalism can be more truthful without strict observance of traditional rules of factual reportage. The best work in the genre is characterized by a novelistic twist [...]

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New Look…

01.31.2006

obviously. I’m fiddling with the layout, etc. I know what I want, but I don’t know if LiveJournal will allow it. Keep watching this space for updates….

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Wendy Wasserstein

01.30.2006

died. Who even knew she was that sick? Am I so out of the loop? Does it matter? Well, yes, to me it does. Years ago, when Uncommon Women and Others first came out, she was not so much an icon, but a high-beam light showing that schlubby Jewish girls did have something to say [...]

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01.28.2006

When I was a working journalist, from time to time I was treated to a drink or a dinner from a Wannabe. Since this was Los Angeles, the Wannabe was most often a Screenwriter or, if a more serious type, perhaps a Novelist. The Wannabe wanted to know how they could get an assignment to [...]

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01.26.2006

Passed my comps. Yeah………………!

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01.25.2006

http://www.timegoesby.net/ “As the publicity machine that propelled Sex and The Seasoned Woman onto The New York Times best-seller list at 14th place last Sunday continues to surge forward, it becomes more disturbing. God knows it’s not that I’m against sex at any adult age, or that I think elder sex shouldn’t be spoken of. And [...]

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01.24.2006

I just got a bump-up:ByJane is now listed on Blogher’s site. I don’t think I felt more excited when I got my first reporting job! This blog has become and is becoming more for me than just a place to rant and read. When I first started By Jane, I wasn’t sure what it would [...]

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Friday Night in Tulare

01.20.2006

pronounced Too Lare E. By the locals. Of whom my husband was once one. We are in Tulare at the Best Western. We feel it is a home away from home because we always stayed here when Denny and Debbie were still living here. Now they’re in the Bay Area and we’re on our way [...]

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Cogito, ergo, whatever…

01.15.2006

Freud said that anxiety gets transformed by defenses–or some such thing. I ate that chocolate bar while I was studying because the snap of the hard bar stood in for my anger…my snapiness at this studying. So nice to know why one is scarfing chocolate. I went to LA the other day for a review [...]

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