Category: books

09/11/08 10:36 - 66ºF - ID#45650

Book reviewer needed?

Anyone who knows me, knows I really don't like reading non-technical manuals/science stuff at all but I got this request today and I think it might interest someone on here - so I am throwing it out there.

Dear Paul,

How does a girl from a working class family in Buffalo, NY --- a city where winters last for six months or longer and residents drape their windows in plastic to keep out the wind and the snow --- end up becoming the youngest person with a seat on the American Stock Exchange and a millionaire by the age of twenty-one? Laura Pedersen tells the story in her hilarious new memoir BUFFALO GAL (Fulcrum; October 31st; trade paperback).

The Pedersens, like many families surviving in the frigid North during the seventies, feared rising prices at the gas pump, argued about the thermostat, and fought over the dog to stay warm at night. While her parents were preoccupied with surviving separation and stagflation, Laura became the neighborhood wild child, skipping school to play poker, bet horses and trade stocks. Set during a defining era of race riots, antiwar protests and abortion rallies, BUFFALO GAL combines laugh-out-loud humor with a genuine slice of social history.

Laura Pedersen writes for The New York Times and is the author of eight books, including BEGINNER'S LUCK, which was chosen as a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection. Honored as one of Ten Outstanding Young Americans by President Clinton, Pedersen currently lives in New York City.

I am writing to see if you would like to receive a copy of BUFFALO GAL to review or discuss on your website.

More details can be found online at www.laurapedersenbooks.com:
-About Laura Pedersen
-About BUFFALO GAL
-BUFFALO GAL excerpt
-More praise
-For book clubs

Please contact me for a review copy, to request an interview or guest blog with Laura Pedersen, or if you have any questions/comments. I look forward to hearing from you.

Best wishes,
Anna Jarzab
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Anna Jarzab
Marketing Assistant
The Book Report Network
250 West 57th Street, Suite 1228
New York, NY 10107
(212) 246-3100
anna AT authorsontheweb.com

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: computers

09/11/08 06:58 - 73ºF - ID#45645

My first day with vista

After crashing my computer screen to a weird chopped up windows logo death like I never saw before, this is what my computer looked like after rebooting windows vista, nice!

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: accident

09/11/08 11:00 - 60ºF - ID#45636

Car Flipped on Main street

On the way to work I saw a bunch of emergency vehicles in front to f Wendy's. A car actually managed to flip over on Main Street. Notice the wheel in the air next to the ambulance. Sorry I couldn't get a closer pic but (e:Terry) wouldn't let me as he thought it was weird to take pics. I have no idea how you could end up going fast enough for this to happen.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

09/10/08 11:06 - ID#45634

Lazy Moros

Who buys this kind of crap. I mean I actually love cream of rice but
I would never pay that price for a plastic bowl of it frozen in a
box. Seriously, you could get a giant box of it for real cheap and
just add your own water. adding the water to the bowl before
microwaving is no less convenient then unboxing and unwrapping.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: environment

09/10/08 05:26 - 66ºF - ID#45629

I know where it all comes from

The cardboard that is. I seriosuly canno believe the way people pack stuff. I thought I was getting my new external hard drive in the box and I still thought the box was big. Then it turned out to only be the 2ft firewire 800 cable. Seriously, such a giant box, stuffed with paper for this tiny, indesctructible, no moving parts firewire cable.

If I don't take the box home it will all go in the trash (e:paul,45618)

We all had the same issue when we ordered those flat imac keyboard, they weigh nothing and are tiny but came in boxes twice the size of this box with another box inside, stuffed with those styrofoam peanuts.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: environment

09/09/08 10:22 - ID#45618

Roswell park refusing to recycle

Here we have another peek into the garbage dumpster at 901 Washington at Roswell. I seriously can't believe how much cardboard they put in the garbage, it's disgusting. There was a bunch more inside waiting to be broken down. This is just an update to (e:paul,45562)

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Location: Buffalo, NY

09/09/08 02:44 - ID#45616

Stormy skies

The sky looks so stormy downtown. It's like in ghostbusters.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: food

09/08/08 08:37 - ID#45609

Yummy Korea house

Last night we headed out to Korea House on Evans rd with Robert and
James. It was the first time I had the Korean barbeque and it was
definayely worth every penny.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

09/07/08 10:21 - ID#45602

Who picked this URL?

I just captured this from a TV advertisement.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: party

09/07/08 10:56 - 62ºF - ID#45598

Crazy Evening with the e:imk2ster

I can't believe I forgot to take any pictures last night ;( So much happend.

We went to go see tropic thunder

with (e:imk2), (e:limsay), (e:tinypliny), (e:mrmike), keith, and (e:imk2)'s friend julia. We missed you (e:metalpeter). Ben Stiller has a perfect body I think. I wish mine looked more like his, maybe someday. I thought it was slapstick funny but otherwise it got kind of boring at parts. Make sure you bring people who are not sensitive.

Afterwards, we came to our house where we waited for (e:jim) and (e:james) along with (e:matthew)'s ex-boyfriend from high school who is moving to Paris. (E:tinypliny) and I talked food for a long while and I gave her some of the tomatoes from the garden.

Then we went to go meet robert and another james, their neighbors (Philis start a journal and her husband) at fugazi where some older gentlemen from florida molested me at the bar and tried to get me to go "to their hotel" with them or at least "their car", lol. That didn't happen but it was nice to have people be excited about trying to get with me.

Then for the first time in like 10 years I went to a party at someone else's house. A friend of (e:flacidness) was having a birthday party and they did not have animals. It was so crazy to be at someone else's house. (e:imk2) and I showed up at like 2am to meet everyone else.