Is this entry locked? Cuz catinthesun, one of our favorite Tucson ex-patriate wrimos, lives in Bakersfield and I'm sure she'd have some fabby insights :)
Ooh! I'll unlock it now. Will you be so kind as to direct her to this post?
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(I just hope she doesn't really love Bakersfield, as I'm not always complimentary about it. :D It has been more than a decade since I lived there, though, so it would be good to hear some more recent info. I drove through about three years ago, so I've at least *seen* it more recently, but I haven't really spent any time there since I left in 1991). :D
BTW, my fictional bookstore is housed in a real building - there's a big mortuary on Truxton Avenue which I've "stolen" for the sake of my book. My friend used to live in the upstairs, because her grandparents ran the place. In fact, AFAIK, they still run it, and she still lives there. I'm going to change the address a bit, though, otherwise it will be too easy for people to guess. Not sure if that's a problem or not. :)
She said Bakersfield is "Oklahoma in California", so no...no love lost there ;) We're all having lunch today, so I'll make sure she finds her way here. That's all the help I'm giving you, though, Ms. Word Count Champion :P *sitting on her 1,101 words like a dragon on a hoard*
LOL! Yeah, you know me. I type fast, and I just spew out whatever comes into my mind as fast as possible. :D It's all rubbish. Seriously, the stuff I wrote yesterday is bad, bad, bad
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Well, if you really wanna have fun, get him running around saying "I am the captain of the carpet ship!". It works for me ;) Actually, I'm rather fond of the weeda weeda woo part, too. It's a good cue to anyone around me that I've snapped and will proceed to be completely loopy for the following duration of time...
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(I just hope she doesn't really love Bakersfield, as I'm not always complimentary about it. :D It has been more than a decade since I lived there, though, so it would be good to hear some more recent info. I drove through about three years ago, so I've at least *seen* it more recently, but I haven't really spent any time there since I left in 1991). :D
BTW, my fictional bookstore is housed in a real building - there's a big mortuary on Truxton Avenue which I've "stolen" for the sake of my book. My friend used to live in the upstairs, because her grandparents ran the place. In fact, AFAIK, they still run it, and she still lives there. I'm going to change the address a bit, though, otherwise it will be too easy for people to guess. Not sure if that's a problem or not. :)
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That's all the help I'm giving you, though, Ms. Word Count Champion :P
*sitting on her 1,101 words like a dragon on a hoard*
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(This one kills me. Every. Time.)
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Actually, I'm rather fond of the weeda weeda woo part, too. It's a good cue to anyone around me that I've snapped and will proceed to be completely loopy for the following duration of time...
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