Beautiful by 10 Years



Beauty over wisdom to fit in with their styles
Your Cinderella story's for a price
Vanity's a business built to please the unique
Silicone and stars collide, the rest will fall in line

Just as beautiful as you are
It's so pitiful what you are
You should have seen this coming all along

Visually you're stimulating to my eyes
Your Cinderella syndrome's full of lies
Your insecurities are concealed by your pride
Pretty soon your ego will kill what's left inside

Just as beautiful as you are
It's so pitiful what you are
You should have seen this coming all along

It's so pitiful what you are
As beautiful as you are
You should have seen this coming all along

You're everything that's so typical
Maybe you're alone for a reason
You're the reason

It's so pitiful what you are
You should have seen this coming all along

Just as beautiful as you are
It's so pitiful what you are
You should have seen this coming all along

It's so pitiful what you are
As beautiful as you are
You should have seen this coming all along

That's teaching the school yard bullies out there...

Hmm pancakes...

What if I wanted to break
Laugh it all off in your face
What would you do?
What if I fell to the floor
Couldn't take this anymore
What would you do, do, do?

What if I wanted to fight
Beg for the rest of my life.
What would you do?
You say you wanted more
What are you waiting for
I'm not running from you

I tried to be someone else
But nothing seemed to change
I know now: this is who I really am inside
I Finally found myself
Fighting for a chance
I know now, THIS IS WHO I REALLY AM

-30 Seconds To Mars

Pencil chair:

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Big Brother Is Watching! Beware Those Who Review!

It looks like Big Brother is watching! If you are a blogger like myself who reviews books and gets ARCs or books from publishers for free, this FTC release may affect you.

Get a load of this from the Federal Trade Commission in regards to those who receive endorsements:

"The revised Guides also add new examples to illustrate the long standing principle that “material connections” (sometimes payments or free products) between advertisers and endorsers – connections that consumers would not expect – must be disclosed.

These examples address what constitutes an endorsement when the message is conveyed by bloggers or other “word-of-mouth” marketers. The revised Guides specify that while decisions will be reached on a case-by-case basis, the post of a blogger who receives cash or in-kind payment to review a product is considered an endorsement. Thus, bloggers who make an endorsement must disclose the material connections they share with the seller of the product or service."

So, it looks like if you post a positive review for a product, like a book, you must mention where you got the book and how. If a publisher sends you an ARC, which is free that you didn't buy, you must place this "disclaimer" in your review because you have given an endorsement.

But if you post a negative review of a book that you received free from a publisher, you many not have to post a "disclaimer" because it isn't an endorsement.

What does this mean? What about those bloggers who review that are from different countries? Look at a blog like The Book Smugglers where one reviewer is American and the other is from England. What does that mean for them?

Is this a big deal? Should blogs that review products state how they received the product and if they got it for free?

Ed Champion who runs the the Reluctant Habits blog interviewed Richard Cleland of the Bureau of Consumer Protection by telephone about this.

Some facts from Ed's post that caught my eye:

-These guidelines, which will be effective as of December 1, 2009, require all bloggers to disclose any tangible connections.

-Cleland doesn't see any particular problem with a book review appearing on a blog, but only if there wasn’t a corresponding Amazon Affiliates link or an advertisement for the book.

BUT...
A book falls under “compensation” if it comes associated with an Amazon link or there is an advertisement for the book, or if the reviewer holds onto the book.

If I state on my sidebar that I received these books from the Book Fairy or the Book Angels from Heaven, would I be safe then?

You annoy me because all you do is moan and groan. I wish I could tell you to shut the hell up. Move on and get over it!

Working on my stupid dreams has been very hard lately. But they may be stupid, but they are mine! Something to look forward to as I keep failing at them.

There is something very uplifting when you come to the conclusion that another person's opinion of you no longer matters. And so this great rock of woe I have been holding on my shoulders has disappeared.

To those who have a low opinion of me, I don't give a rat's ass what you think.

I feel so much better.