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"No, but she'll be working on her craft," I said. I popped the ball up and d
own on my desk. "The Academy eats that stuff up. It's a nomination, easy. Li
ke Cher in Silkwood." Sometimes I can't believe what comes out of my own mou
th.
"For starters," Gwedif said.
I hopped out of the car and let Joshua out. Joshua hit the ground running an
d hurled himself at the oncoming swarm, snarling and baring his fangs. There
was chaos as members of the press retreated, screaming, from Joshua's full
frontal assault; suddenly a path miraculously appeared through them. I set o
ut at a sprint. Reporters, torn between being bitten by an angry dog and get
ting their story, hollered questions at me as they retreated; their sound pe
ople desperately swung their boom mikes towards me to catch my response. At
least one of the boom mikes connected with a camera operator. I heard a crun
ch as a $75,000 video camera hit the ground but didn't stay to watch.
"You ought to be sleeping," Michelle said, severely.

Virginia, is that you?

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I hopped out of the car and let Joshua out. Joshua hit the ground running an
d hurled himself at the oncoming swarm, snarling and baring his fangs. There
was chaos as members of the press retreated, screaming, from Joshua's full
frontal assault;

That's one mean kid.

TBR

"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and
more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day
the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the
White House will be adorned by a downright moron."
H.L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
"Anyone with degrees from Yale and Harvard is presumed to be intelligent,
but George W. Bush has managed to overcome that presumption."