Sherry Chandler

Voting ends tomorrow at midnight in the Preditors & Editors Readers’ Poll so click through to voice your choice for the best of the internet publications in categories ranging from horror to poetry. (I think they overlap sometimes.) Official rules are here.

Looks like fun. I found the listing in Hope Clark’s Funds For Writers newsletter. Beyond that I can’t speak to the integrity of this site.

You might also want to participate in the Third Annual The Pedestal Magazine readers’ awards:

During the months of December and January, we will be conducting our third annual “Pedestal Readers’ Awards” contest. This contest will recognize three works of poetry and one work of fiction that have been published in the past six “regular” issues (issues 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, and 36) of The Pedestal Magazine. The contest is easy: you simply vote for your favorite work in each category (poetry and fiction) by sending an email to: pedestalreadersaward@yahoo.com. If you are a current donor (or make a donation before January 31) you may vote twice. All others may vote once. Any reader (i.e. visitor to the website) is eligible to vote. The voting will take place from now through January 31, 2007. We hope you will participate in this contest and show support for our published writers!

Prize moneys awarded for this one.

Here’s a statement I found at Lance Mannion’s blog:

Great acting is usually a matter of making outrageously unbelievable characters believable, of turning gods and monsters into plausible human beings. Hamlet, set down in a real Denmark, would be a madman.

This is why I watch House, I think. The plots and the characters are all ridiculous. The characters wouldn’t last ten seconds in the real world. But it’s wonderful to watch Hugh Laurie make a drug-addicted jerk into a character so charismatic and compelling that you can’t take your eyes off him. All the more wonderful when you consider that his previous hits have been playing Upper Class Twits on series like Black Adder. The women I work with — in a real medical center — just drool over him.

If you look at Laurie objectively, you may wonder what is there to drool over. Intelligence you might say but that isn’t what American women usually look for in a hunk.

Bit of a comedown, from Hamlet to House, but since Mannion was talking about Sidewalks of New York I think I can get away with it.

It’s an intelligent post. I think you’ll enjoy reading all of it.