Monday December 16, 2013  I decided to see if there are preteen romance novels.  The category exists, and contains many books.

***Comments of comment:

Lee Gold, 12/16: "'Your Character Wouldn't Say That' Back when I took Linguistics (grad school, English), we learned the International Phonetic Alphabet and tried to use it to write down sounds.

"And one of the girls in my class of thirty or so students didn't hear a difference between 'cot' and 'caught.'"

Only one?

***From Twitter:

Serendipity -- two consecutive tweets: 1) Gary Farber ‏@GaryFarberKnows "Dinosaur erotica was something new that I’d never tried before." Q&A: The Women Who Write Dinosaur Erotica http://nymag.com/thecut/2013/10/qa-the-women-who-write-dinosaur-erotica.html …

2) Ed Yong ‏@edyong209 Ruh-roh RT @JohnRHutchinson: Myhrvold: dinosaur growth rates have been badly mis-estimated, if his stats are right: http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0081917 …

Helen O'Hara ‏@HelenLOHara Had a confusingly contradictory moment earlier when I ordered a Virgin Pornstar martini. #TeetotalLife
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Jim Galloway ‏@politicalinsidr Prosecutor sez Don Balfour had BA, MA in accounting, and held CPA certificate. Defense: "D.B. hated accounting. He wasn't very good at it."

Zennie Abraham ‏@zennie62 Nudity Activist Announces Plans For Naked Wedding At SF City Hall – CBS Local http://ift.tt/J0Ap58

Arjun Basu ‏@arjunbasu 14 Dec He looks up from his phone clearly annoyed. Are you talking to me? he asks. Forget it, Happiness says, and walks away and plays with a child

Wall Street Journal ‏@WSJ Want to get stock tips from tweets? A look at the tools investors use: http://on.wsj.com/1heaLX4  $TWTR

Susan Cosmos ‏@SusanCosmos Be daring, be different, be impractical; be anything that will assert integrity of purpose & imaginative vision against the play-it-safers!