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Archive for the 'high school musical' Category

ASK MJ: THE SOUND OF SCARLETT

Sunday, April 26th, 2009

Margaret asks: you said the other night that you would show us the Scarlett playlist. Can you please do that?
So I was on Twitter the other night, and I mentioned that I was listening to Grace Kelly by Mika, and that it was one of the big songs off my Suite Scarlett playlist. I wasn’t [...]

HOW TO SURVIVE THE ECONOMIC CRISIS

Monday, October 13th, 2008

Go away for two weeks and what happens? ALL THE MONEY IN THE WORLD BREAKS.
Oh, sure it SEEMS bad.
Okay, it IS bad.
I guess I’m going to have to fire some of my staff—the guy who polishes all my doorknobs with gold dust-infused butter, the professional remote control operator, the person who sits on my [...]

THE YA AUTHOR MANSION

Friday, May 16th, 2008

This last week, I got caught. Trapped like a trap in a trap.
Those of you who have read this blog for some time will know that I attended a Catholic girls’ academy—a school I later turned into St. Teresa’s in the book Devilish. I have told several stories about this school, but never named it. [...]

COMING OUT OF THE DARK

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007

WOW.
I didn’t mean for almost two weeks to go by without reporting. There is an explanation, as always, but this explanation is made more exciting by the fact that IT IS A SECRET.
Yes. A secret. So secret that I had to sign a document promising that I wouldn’t talk about what I was doing [...]

CHAPTER SIX, IN WHICH I GET A MUSICAL TOOTHBRUSH

Friday, October 5th, 2007

I had lunch with my erstwhile agent, Daphne Unfeasible, today. It was a glorious summer-like day here in New York (thank you, global warming!). We sat at an outdoor café on Park Avenue behind a table full of priests.
I always feel kind of smugly content when I’m near a lot of priests, because I [...]