Elektra commented on Michael Phelps, Author

"@daspion: Um, there's no Santa Claus, I accidentally swatted the Tooth Fairy to death thinking it was a mosquito, and Michael Phelps is highly unlikely to write his own book."

Elektra commented on Michael Phelps, Author

"@SaraRueful: I think that a discrete ghost writer is one who provides each chapter in a separate file folder."

Elektra commented on Matt Damon Talks Like Girl To End Poverty

"@HOPSCOTCH: Ricky Martin is doing porn now?"

Elektra commented on Matt Damon Talks Like Girl To End Poverty

"It's that tiny tiny tiny little smile that plays across his face at the fadeout that makes this truly magical and Nobel Prize worthy, and he can marry me. Also end of story."

Elektra commented on Does Scary New Zogby Poll Mean Obama Is Toast?

"Perhaps it's time for men and women of essential goodwill who intend to vote for Obama to stop with the carping little digs and mockeries."

Elektra commented on David Carr's Shifty Definition of "Bestseller"

"@BeckySharper: The list may or may not be bullshit (I know of at least one book that debuted on the Times list in the top spot based not on any sales at all but simply a mad rush of wholesale orders), but it is of course the single list that every book publisher wants to tout on its books' front covers. Can one eat one's cake and dis it too?"

Elektra commented on David Carr's Shifty Definition of "Bestseller"

"@MrInBetween: I'd tell you, but then I'd have to kill.........someone. But I speak the truth, and I don't lob the word "mega" around lightly."

Elektra commented on David Carr's Shifty Definition of "Bestseller"

"@MrInBetween: Not according to the standards of at least one mega-publishing company I might name. On the list proper = "New York Times bestseller" On the extended list = sorry, charlie, but not quite"

Elektra commented on Which Actor Is Crazy, Violent, and Gay?

"@Itsjustcatnip: Do the words "power bottom" mean anything to you?"

Elektra commented on Things We Actually Wish Had A Dedicated Tumblr Account

"@DorothyMantooth: Point taken."

Elektra commented on Things We Actually Wish Had A Dedicated Tumblr Account

"The flaw of this contest is and has always been that it inspires probably competent writers to devise flamingly, exuberantly awful prose, which is not the same thing as numbing, godawful, sheerly incompetent writing. Over the years, on da job, I've read first sentences so jawdroppingly rottenly stinking that they'd make this little prankish bit run for cover with its hand over its snout. Bad writing is rarely fun (well, maybe it is if you're watching an Ed Wood movie), and it can't be faked."

Elektra commented on Netflix Chaos Terror

"@Cheap Shot: If Netflix had porn, the entire United States would come (you'll pardon me) to a screeching (you'll pardon me) halt."

Elektra commented on Barack Obama Shames Americans With His Elitist Body

"Gauloises, cheri."

Elektra commented on His Elbow Turned Back to Front

"I am *so* not looking."

Elektra commented on Olympic Adoration: Nerdy Journalists Still Awed by Jocks

"At least I don't have to claim "journalistic standards" and pretend that I don't want to boink the living daylights out of, well, nearly every one of them."

Elektra commented on A Tale of Four Stupid Mistakes the 'Times' Always Makes

"One might add that myriad writers at the Times misuse the phrase "begs the question." That drives some of us directly up the wall."

Elektra commented on Good Stroke

"He's, oddly and wonderfully, ridiculously attractive."

Elektra commented on MTA Screwing You

"I got double-charged for a Metrocard purchase a couple of weeks back (I actually had--and kept--the receipt that said "transaction failed"; the second time worked), and Amex was very fast to get rid of the extra charge."