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My hometown paper, ladies and gentlemen. Sigh.
I had no idea my name was Linda Evans, that my TWoP handle was Miss Ali, or that I have managed to make writing about being single my "livelihood." Yeesh.
Can't you even get your own TWoP handle right? It's MS. Ali. I mean, if anyone would know, it would be the Pioneer Press.
Honestly!
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at 10:39 AM on 07.29.06
[ link ]Ms. Ali, fabulous she, Ali Abab-wa. Strong as ten regular men, definitely! She defeats the galloping hordes -- 110 guys with swords! Who sent those goons to their Lords, why Ms. Ali!
at 10:39 AM on 07.29.06
[ link ]Wow. Is Ellen Tomson a pseudonym for Jayson Blair?
at 10:39 AM on 07.29.06
[ link ]I'm sure she's doing her best; it's not intentional. To be perfectly honest, even the misstating of my name (over and over again) bugs me less than the somewhat... pointed assertion that in spite of being single, I've made dating advice my "livelihood." Because that's sort of being said to make fun of me, and it's just... not the case. Admittedly, Evan is a professional dating-advice person. I, however, am not, nor would I ever want to be. I assure you that this is the only thing in this field that I will ever do. It was precisely my belief that regular people might have something useful to say that made me want to write it. I don't know. It doesn't really matter, but it tweaks me a little.
Fortunately, I have other projects in the works to distract me that I am wildly excited about (as in, I say "Eeeeeeee!" about them regularly), so my life as a non-dating non-expert is of a finite duration.
Coming soon: my book about being married to Yanni.
at 10:39 AM on 07.29.06
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Hey... a changed last name is the writer's version of a pop-star's teacup chihuahua...
Ms. Evans
If that uber-tard Brian Mand can become "Brian Gordon" to write a book and shlep copy for ESPNnews... then you can be the Linda Evans that all Crystal Carrington-wanna-bes out there will pine for.
see my first reaction to "hometown paper" really was The News Journal... not Twin Cities. My bad :)
rock on girlie... go get some Dynasty-like Bling to celebrate how faaaabulous you are
PB
at 10:39 AM on 07.29.06
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dammit.. I meant Brian Curtis... still an arrogant dweebie in my book
/rant
at 10:39 AM on 07.29.06
[ link ]Ha! I didn't know that about Brian at all. How... interesting. Damn, maybe I SHOULD have changed my name. That would have been an interesting strategy. I'm not sure why he would change his, though. It's not like there was anything particularly wrong with the one he had.
(For those of you who are confused, as I have occasionally explained, Paul and I went to school together for... approximately one million years, starting in... first grade? I think first grade, and through high school. He knows many horrifyingly embarrassing stories about me, he was probably there when I was thrown out of Spanish class for talking, and as I never tire of reminding him, I was there when he played the role of a highly un-PC king who wore a turban and carried a papier-mache turkey leg. Good times.)
at 10:39 AM on 07.29.06
[ link ]Ah, then I WAS thinking of the correct News Journal, which remains MY hometown newspaper, more or less. (And more's the pity.)
Too bad about all those errors; the comfort is that a writeup like that is here today and gone tomorrow. (Not so comforting when one WANTS to be remembered by it, but equally true.)
at 10:39 AM on 07.29.06
[ link ]This only proves what I've been saying it for years:
Helen Thomas is FAR too old to be writing reliable copy...
at 10:39 AM on 07.29.06
[ link ]I wrote to Ellen, and to her credit, she wrote a very apologetic note and has promised a correction. She was very nice about it. And she says she never even saw Dynasty. She also says that "Linda Evans" was her bad, but that the press kit says "Ms. Ali." Nice.
Heh.
at 10:39 AM on 07.29.06
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Sweet... Ms. Ali (like Muhammad Ali) could have been King Rama Das's best kept secret in the harem...
that hat ruled, it was 75% of my actual height... all 4 feet of me.
should we mention who had the lead role in the voiceover work ?
It seems our lady Ali got her start in recording in grade 4... since as little kids we couldn't remember lines to the play, we had to record it all and play a tape as we lip-synched the acting.
I can remember this crap but I forget to lock the front door to my house sometimes... :(
at 10:39 AM on 07.29.06
[ link ]With the current heat wave in Minn. I couldn't read a newspaper let alone write for one...
Yeesh..
at 10:39 AM on 07.29.06
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