tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7986595816238301046.post2951122000476662592..comments2024-03-18T09:51:31.137-04:00Comments on Editorial Anonymous: Today's Easy QuestionEditorial Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06294247222893767117noreply@blogger.comBlogger109125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7986595816238301046.post-47696250758607534952015-08-25T23:09:08.985-04:002015-08-25T23:09:08.985-04:00Banned complain !! Complaining only causes life an...Banned complain !! Complaining only causes life and mind become more severe. Enjoy the rhythm of the problems faced. No matter ga life, not a problem not learn, so enjoy it :)<br /><br /><a href="http://goo.gl/iTqv3y" rel="nofollow">Cara Mengobati Alzaimer</a><br /><a href="http://goo.gl/2sIIKX" rel="nofollow">Cara Menghilangkan Kelenjar Tiroid</a><br /><a href="http://goo.gl/PszhqT" rel="nofollow">Obat Benjolan Di Pantat</a><br /><a href="http://goo.gl/us3WuG" rel="nofollow">Obat Alami Benjolan Di Selangkangan</a><br /><a href="http://goo.gl/DN3MmW" rel="nofollow">Obat Pasca Operasi Ambeien Yang Aman</a>Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09825923265729201900noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7986595816238301046.post-85378412489361772422009-02-10T01:22:00.000-05:002009-02-10T01:22:00.000-05:00Today's Easy QuestionI don't have a compter or typ...Today's Easy Question<BR/><BR/>I don't have a compter or typewriter at home and my handwriting is pretty good. Is there a reason I should go out of my way to type my manuscritp before sending it to publishers.<BR/><BR/>--<BR/>Well, now, if I were to be asked this question, my reply would be (by way of also giving advice on the writing of this person): Encoding or typing your manuscript on a computer will definitely benefit you by way of spell check. And I think Word can also help you to some extent on dealing with correct punctuation. If a computer isn't available, a typewriter is the next best thing, AND a correction fluid will come in handy!toink girlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08676786400057984331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7986595816238301046.post-74771853761969143282009-02-08T22:42:00.000-05:002009-02-08T22:42:00.000-05:00106 comments... good god. Is that a record for thi...106 comments... good god. Is that a record for this blog?<BR/><BR/>107 now, I guess.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7986595816238301046.post-68107522275018950792009-02-07T09:16:00.000-05:002009-02-07T09:16:00.000-05:00Answer:Library:-)Answer:<BR/><BR/>Library<BR/><BR/>:-)Wordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11619452785558039000noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7986595816238301046.post-77787504812770098332009-02-06T23:59:00.000-05:002009-02-06T23:59:00.000-05:00Chris - see my very first comment on this thread f...Chris - see my very first comment on this thread for a hint.Sarah Laurensonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09252565450452195395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7986595816238301046.post-2202560284588821332009-02-06T22:32:00.000-05:002009-02-06T22:32:00.000-05:00Word, You better come back here with the answer!!!...Word, You better come back here with the answer!!!Chris Eldinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11794946908789120139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7986595816238301046.post-63332901215198350512009-02-06T17:11:00.000-05:002009-02-06T17:11:00.000-05:00Dang - Dictionary. I'm a diot that starts with 'i...Dang - Dictionary. I'm a diot that starts with 'i'.<BR/><BR/>In an effort to reach 100.<BR/><BR/>What kind of building has the most stories?Wordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11619452785558039000noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7986595816238301046.post-29480798883462818162009-02-06T16:45:00.000-05:002009-02-06T16:45:00.000-05:00There's one facet of this that no one has mentione...There's one facet of this that no one has mentioned yet, and that is the "gimmick" of this particular book. And I don't mean that in a bad way.<BR/><BR/>This election was one for the history books - our country has finally come far enough to elect a black president! How amazing is that when you look at what was taking place 50 years ago? <BR/><BR/>There is some intrinsic collectable value, therefore, in a book that memorializes that. For that purpose, rhyme, grammar and the rest really <I>don't</I> matter. It will someday be considered a collectible just because of the subject matter.<BR/><BR/>Now - could it have been done better? Yes, I think it could have, for many of the reasons already mentioned. Would I buy it? No. Does it favorably compare to the masters of the trade such as Milne and Seusse? Let's not kid ourselves. Of course not, not many kids books do.<BR/><BR/>Taste being what it is, you will always have differeneces of opinion. Does this all mean this particular book has no merit or value because it doesn't measure up to some set of criteria on an intellectual front? Not at all!This particular book may end up being some child's absolute undying favorite. <BR/><BR/>It takes all kinds to make the world go round. Viva la differance!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7986595816238301046.post-29563507126628909302009-02-06T16:10:00.000-05:002009-02-06T16:10:00.000-05:00Do incarcerated misdemeanorons handwrite, as well?...Do incarcerated misdemeanorons handwrite, as well?David Macinnis Gillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14676500399960890193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7986595816238301046.post-57495161518889880292009-02-06T15:19:00.000-05:002009-02-06T15:19:00.000-05:00Coincidentally, Nathan Bransford has a piece on cr...Coincidentally, Nathan Bransford has a piece on critics today that you should read, if you've been following this back and forth. <BR/><BR/>informed criticism vs. uninformed opinion. They are not the same.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7986595816238301046.post-46181462560582121482009-02-06T13:57:00.000-05:002009-02-06T13:57:00.000-05:00Ok, since I certainly don't wish to be perceiv...Ok, since I certainly don't wish to be perceived as overly-sensitive, impolite, unprofessional, and/or whatever other awful traits I've supposedly displayed here, I won't be posting again. In fact, you can have at me all you like, because I'll never look at this blog again, lest someone accuse me of taking too great an interest in critical reviews of my work. Anyone wishing to contact me is welcome to do so at jzilber@littledemocrats.net, but of course if you contact me to say anything other than words of encouragement, it might be a sign that you're hyper-sensitive, overly concerned with my opinion of you, and/or need to learn how to relax and graciously accept criticism. <BR/><BR/>So, with that, I'll leave you all to enjoy your closed-minded banter about "good" children's books, i.e., books that conform strictly to your narrow set of arbitrary guidelines. Meanwhile, I'll be writing more of my "bad" children's books that seem to be delighting children and parents across the country. If only THAT were something to be proud of....<BR/><BR/>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTvAJX4P_O4&feature=related<BR/><BR/>http://www.flickr.com/photos/wanderandwonder/3213276762/<BR/><BR/>http://kiddosandbooks.blogspot.com/2008/11/book-mama-voted-for-obama.html<BR/><BR/>http://www.amazon.com/Mama-Voted-Obama-Jeremy-Zilber/review/product/0978668820/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1<BR/><BR/>http://www.photoblog.com/bamommy/2008/11/05/mama-voted-for-obama.html<BR/><BR/>http://www.tokoni.com/story/6278/out-of-the-mouths-of-babes.html<BR/><BR/>http://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/NASApp/store/IndexJspAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7986595816238301046.post-19221401435257987372009-02-06T12:12:00.000-05:002009-02-06T12:12:00.000-05:00Oh Frabjous Day! Calloo, Callay!Thank you for retu...Oh Frabjous Day! Calloo, Callay!<BR/><BR/>Thank you for returning, EA--- I missed your snark.Deirdre Mundyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14357363160387734552noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7986595816238301046.post-54204307006685078582009-02-06T11:07:00.000-05:002009-02-06T11:07:00.000-05:00Dictionary? and here I was trying to stuff extra l...Dictionary? and here I was trying to stuff extra letters into the word "Alphabet" to make it work:)Christine Tripphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05058419743726981987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7986595816238301046.post-17584344411856777442009-02-06T10:44:00.000-05:002009-02-06T10:44:00.000-05:00On Rousseau --I had a professor in college(a Freud...On Rousseau --<BR/><BR/>I had a professor in college(a Freudian, FWIW) who always believed that the reason that Rousseau was so fond of the state of nature and so opposed to marriage, civilization and all those other plots by perfidious women was that his glass catheter made him feel awkward in polite company......... =)<BR/><BR/>Oh! And while we're talking about enlightenment thinkers and their physical infirmities, I used to LOVE reading about the Astronomer Tycho Brahe (Kepler's teacher, until Kepler decided that epicycles were silly and took Brahe's data to make elliptical orbits instead)<BR/><BR/>Brahe was a larger than life figure... his nose was cut off in a duel and he had a golden one made to replace it........<BR/><BR/>(Yes, this is a blatent attempt to get to 100.... but Tycho the Psycho is really cool!!!!!!!)Deirdre Mundyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14357363160387734552noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7986595816238301046.post-65460398141449720502009-02-06T10:00:00.000-05:002009-02-06T10:00:00.000-05:00Nobody's venturing a guess?hmmmm......Okay, here's...Nobody's venturing a guess?<BR/>hmmmm......<BR/>Okay, here's a clue I gave to Thing 1 and Thing 2 to help them along.<BR/><BR/>It begins with the letter "D" and rhymes with 'ictionary.'Chris Eldinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11794946908789120139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7986595816238301046.post-74708779343078009222009-02-06T09:17:00.000-05:002009-02-06T09:17:00.000-05:00I dunno Chris,What word is ten letters long and ha...I dunno Chris,<BR/><BR/>What word is ten letters long and has thousands of words in it?<BR/><BR/>Llamanovel?<BR/>Obamabooks?<BR/>mammajamma?<BR/><BR/>WordWordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11619452785558039000noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7986595816238301046.post-46606950929596660672009-02-06T09:15:00.000-05:002009-02-06T09:15:00.000-05:00When Seuss was starting out, many critics complain...When Seuss was starting out, many critics complained about his illustrations. Should he have listened to them and hired a new illustrator?<BR/><BR/>I will have to give you that Jeremy, more cartoony art has often been looked down on but parents, publishers and some artist as well. I personally love cartoony, quirky art but many see it as a lower form of art, not suitable for children, not "enriching" the child's mind and tastes. You are also right, that art is always subjective, I don't think writing has as much leway, though some love fiction and others might hate it, it all still has to be done well. I can't comment on writing because I am not an author but I did take a look at the Graphic Designers site and I didn't see any samples of Illustration per say. Only design... but it's excellent, not saying otherwise. Just not my taste for children's books and that's where we get back into personal taste I suppose.<BR/><BR/>I will add one more thing, being bashed by Limbaugh is something to be PROUD of, I'd be:)Christine Tripphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05058419743726981987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7986595816238301046.post-15052035738510713292009-02-06T08:36:00.000-05:002009-02-06T08:36:00.000-05:00Jeremy Zilber, I'm not going to argue about the me...Jeremy Zilber, I'm not going to argue about the merits of your book. It's certainly not to my tastes at all, but obviously you're proud of it. <BR/><BR/>However, by coming in here and spending what is clearly a significant chunk of time defending your project from criticism, you're coming off as... what's the word? Overly-sensitive? I think "butthurt" is the current internet slang. You can have whatever opinion of your book that your little heart desires, but it'd probably be better for your blood pressure if you allowed other people the same courtesy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7986595816238301046.post-87439460605816693222009-02-06T07:06:00.000-05:002009-02-06T07:06:00.000-05:00Dictionary.Oh no that is not it.It is Chriseldin.;...Dictionary.<BR/><BR/>Oh no that is not it.<BR/><BR/>It is Chriseldin.<BR/><BR/>;}Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7986595816238301046.post-66684885331140505752009-02-06T00:07:00.000-05:002009-02-06T00:07:00.000-05:00Still going for 100...Go Deirdre! Well done. (And...Still going for 100...<BR/><BR/>Go <B>Deirdre</B>! Well done. (And too bad we don't live near each other. We could snort into our coffee over Rousseau.)<BR/><BR/><B>Anon</B> @ February 3, 2009 10:43 AM: Good points. Recent article about meter being hardwired into us (Study Suggests Babies Get the Beat at Birth--Even Newborns Have Rhythm, Researchers Say) Link: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/MindMoodNews/story?id=6740379&page=1<BR/><BR/>Yes, even newborns notice when rhythm is off: "Yet brain scans show that these 2- and 3-day-olds could perceive musical patterns and even take note when a drummer missed a beat, the study in today's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows."<BR/><BR/><B>Mr. Zilber</B>: Rap out the beat to GREEN EGGS AND HAM and what do you get? A heartbeat. Rap out any great poem and what do you get? Music. Try rapping out MAMA VOTED FOR OBAMA and what do you get? (Hint: if you are rhythmically-challenged, instead of rapping it out you may mark it up in standard "da DUM" to visualize the meter.) <BR/><BR/><B>christine tripp</B>: Excellent points, all. You are right about it being for the very small child. And that leads to another question: who is the book really for? Are two-year-olds interested in politics? It seems to me the book is for Mama, not for the little child. <BR/><BR/><B>Word</B>: I remember IS YOUR MAMA A LLAMA? as a charming book with nice internal rhyming. (I hope I'm remembering it right.) Thank you for bringing it up here. I'll have another peek at it next time I'm at the bookstore.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7986595816238301046.post-51047136375853286662009-02-05T23:13:00.000-05:002009-02-05T23:13:00.000-05:00Deirdre,You can rest easy: you haven't hurt my fee...Deirdre,<BR/><BR/>You can rest easy: you haven't hurt my feelings. If you think you've been rough, just google "why mommy is a democrat" and see what I've been putting up with for the past three years. I think your critique is wrong and way over the top, but at this point it's nearly impossible to offend me. (Not to toot my own horn, but I've been panned by Rush Limbaugh and ridiculed on the Daily Show -- so a comment like "my eyes hurt" isn't going to get to me.)<BR/><BR/>Anyway, this is starting to seem quite redundant, but Ill try one more time. Yes, it's reasonable for someone to say one piece of writing is objectively better than another, but only at the EXTREMES, such as comparing EE Cummings to Hallmark. But is Cummings better than Poe? Is Poe a better writer than Stephen King? Is King a better writer than Carl Sagan? Is Sagan a better writer than Dr. Seuss? At some point, don't you just have to admit they're all good writers -- with very different objectives and very different styles -- and leave it to the reader to decide which they prefer? Must the critic come along and insist on telling us that one of those writers is "worse" than the others, or insist that one of them is "bad" because he didn't follow an established set of industry norms?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7986595816238301046.post-23965723075119250952009-02-05T22:51:00.000-05:002009-02-05T22:51:00.000-05:00I like Llama Llama Red pajama too, if we're on a L...I like Llama Llama Red pajama too, if we're on a Llama thread now...<BR/><BR/>Mr. Zilber-- sorry that you already answered my point about popularity-- The delay made our comments cross in the mail....<BR/><BR/>Only 14 posts to go, people! We can do it!!!! =)Deirdre Mundyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14357363160387734552noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7986595816238301046.post-16569706826317408272009-02-05T22:43:00.000-05:002009-02-05T22:43:00.000-05:00Christine,Either I'm missing your point, or you're...Christine,<BR/><BR/>Either I'm missing your point, or you're missing mine. Deirdre had specifically criticized the book's layout, and suggested I'd have been better off if I'd turned the illustrations over to a graphic designer. Upon hearing that I'd actually employed a graphic artist to do the illustrations, you claimed the problem was that I'd skipped the illustrator. My point is that the two of you seem to be criticizing the artwork for completely different reasons (one of you doesn't mind the layout so much, but dislikes the illustrations; the other doesn't mind the illustrations so much, but dislikes the layout), which reinforces my belief that your evaluations are basically just personal tastes.<BR/><BR/>And let me just add: my "graphic artist" also happens to be an illustrator. His official job title is something like "graphic artist" or "graphic designer," which is why I refer to him as such, but he's been illustrating for years. YOU may not appreciate his style, but plenty of other intelligent people find his illustrations quite appealing. So, as I keep saying, I really believe it boils down to a matter of personal taste.<BR/><BR/>When Seuss was starting out, many critics complained about his illustrations. Should he have listened to them and hired a new illustrator? (He was also criticized for injecting politics into children's books, but perhaps that's for another thread....)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7986595816238301046.post-46994957102642738362009-02-05T21:55:00.000-05:002009-02-05T21:55:00.000-05:00Hi Word!So, the theme of this post is 'words that ...Hi Word!<BR/>So, the theme of this post is 'words that rhyme with mama?'<BR/>:-)<BR/><BR/>I heard this riddle in the car yesterday. I actually got this one right, which I never do.<BR/><BR/><B>What word is ten letters long and has thousands of words in it?</B>Chris Eldinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11794946908789120139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7986595816238301046.post-83131580608550808642009-02-05T21:30:00.000-05:002009-02-05T21:30:00.000-05:00EA, you are truly missed.EA, you are truly missed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com