Win The Big Picture!!
Somehow thist post didn’t make it up Friday. Just pretend like it’s last Friday.
Okay, so from now until August 4th you can win one of three copies of The Big Picture. Just post a message on the blog, and I will pick my favorites draw from a hat on August 4th.
Next week August gets here.
Next week I throw myself in front of a bus.
Did anyone see the three hundred appearances of Miley Cyrus on the morning show circuit? If you’re a Miley fan, it would’ve been a great week to be in New York City and see her for free. Do you think that’s her real hair color?
I got to stop by Novel Journey and guest blog on writing YA today! You can find that HERE. If you’re not checking out Novel Journey on a regular basis, you should. Unlike lazy me, THEY update their blog daily. And it’s a cool place to read author interviews and guest blogs. The fab ladies of NJ do so much to promote Christian fiction.
How would you like to have the name Talula Does The Hula From Hawaii? That’s exactly the name an 11 year old girl from New Zealand had, and this week a judge let her go against her parents and change it. Personally, I think it’s very nice of the parents to give a little shout out to one of our fine states. And Talula? I LOVE that name. In fact, I’ve been waiting to use it in a book. Seriously. One of Demi Moore’s kids is named Talulah. Which is better than Scout. And definitely better than Rumor. (Side note: I had a kitty named Rumor when I was a kid. I have no idea what happened to it. I think the neighborhood cats Barney, Fluffy, and Sox made fun of his name and he ran away.)
According to this Yahoo article, other names that have gotten a big NO are Fish and Chips, Yeah Detroit, and Keenan Got Lucy. But luckily the names Violence and Number 16 Bus Shelter slipped through. Those will be great names under some poor kid’s picture on a WANTED poster in about ten years when they go postal. When I went to kindergarten there were like four other girls with my name in my homeroom, so I thought that was torture. But that’s nothing compared to Fish and Chips. Apparently in the school I taught at, we used to have twins Linen and Percale Sheets.
Natalie passed on this FABULOUS YouTube clip.
Girls, if your boyfriend sounds like this you must make him promise never to talk. It would simply ruin it all.
Good news for Tyler Perry fans (and who isn’t?)! Lions Tate has announced a new deal with him that will have him cranking out Madea movies until 2011!! If you haven’t seen Diary of a Mad Black Woman and Madea’s Family Reunion, you HAVE TO!!!
There is some cussing, but Perry is a Christian guy in Hollywood busting down doors in amazing ways. And besides men in drag NEVER fail to crack me up. It’s like watching someone run into a door. It just never gets old! (Side note II: A few years ago I went to Nebraska for a wedding, and there was a drag queen convention in the same hotel I was at. I thought I had died and gone to People Watching Heaven.)
But where else but Tyler Perry movies could you get these lines?
Orlando: “I’ve got it so bad for you I’d… I’d go to the grocery store and buy your feminine products, I swear I would.”
Madea: “I aint scared a no po po. Call da po po hoe… Call da po po hoe!”
(A personal fave and surprisingly useful)
Madea: “I’ll be at church when they get a smoking section.”
Madea: “She don’t know me. I’m a straight-up thug. I shot Tupac. Yes, I did. We was arguing over a parking place.”
So you should definitely go rent some Tyler Perry this weekend. I personally will be sitting glass-eyed in front of my laptop checking Facebook 100 times finishing a book. But next week I will be busting out, so look out. It will be movies, ice cream, chocolate donuts, and TV watching all over the place. Diary of a Butt-sore White Writer. . .
Have a great weekend.
JEN
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Yay! Book contests! Please enter me in this one (since my local Barnes and Noble is lame and I can’t pick up a copy of The Big Picture there yet)!
Tallulah Does the Hula from Hawaii?? I’m renowed in my family for picking weird names, but that’s wild even for me. Then again, I’d rather be called Tallulah than Number 16 Bus Stop Shelter. Someone has to make a law against names that may force their children to dive off a cliff.
Off to check out the Novel Journey interview. Blessings!
Tallulah Does the Hula from Hawaii… I totally disagree with you, Gracie. I would PAY to be called Number 16 Bus Stop Shelter. As a matter-o-fact, I think I will. Thank you Ms. Jenny B. Jones for inspiring me to find my true calling of switching my name to Number 16 Bus Stop Shelter! I owe you… I’m not sure what, but I do.
I did read your interview… and I think I can become a writer now!
When I was a kid, we had a pig that we named bacon. He was a gift from God and quite tasty.
Pretending it’s last Friday sounds good to me. Maybe it will keep summer around longer if everyone does it…?
I’ve been a silent reader for a while now, but have to chime in for the book contest. (I’m just starting to read “On the Loose” and really enjoying it!)
There is actually a kid named Number 16 Bus Shelter? Wow.
Funny, and random. I will now name my next cat, Tulula.
Next week you throw yourself in front of a bus? That reminds me of this clip from Lost: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=penHDbMn_0s&feature=related
After seeing it, you seriously can’t think of anything else when the word “bus” comes up : )
And if you haven’t figured it out by now, I WOULD LOVE A FREE BOOK!
Hi!! I wanna enter!! I’d love a copy to give to my friend..she LOVES your books!! (I do, too, of course, but I already have them)
Where to start. Don’t be dissing the name Scout. It’s a good solid name. You know I named my puppy that–he doesn’t need to know he’s named after a girl in a book. LOVE Tyler Perry. Really good quotes you chose. Made me laugh out loud again! Congrats on finishing the new book. I’m sure you are very relieved.
Julie, you ARE a writer. You’re too random not to be.
Tim, before I knew I could protest the awful project, my pig in tenth grade dissection class was Oscar.
Rye, glad you piped up. I hate it when I’m the only one talking. : )
Suzie!!! So glad to see you here!
Bethany, here’s hoping you win the book for your friend. You deserve after having to give me movie viewing advice. : )
Rhonda, I actually love the name Scout for a pet. I always liked all of Demi’s kids’ names. Until that Rumor went all celebutante.
Gracie, your Barnes and Noble IS lame!
I think I teach that kid’s sister…
I would love to be entered in your book giveaway drawing. I love the cover of “The Big Picture!” Thanks very much.
I love Madea!!! Watched her Saturday night and Sunday…Also have the DVD!!! You Rock!!! You Roll!!! YOU are AWESOME!!!
I want to be entered in the contest!!! YAY!
Debbie
LOL. Just read your post on Novel Journey and really enjoyed it. Keep up the great work!
Debbie
I would have sworn that I left a comment entering the contest! I must have been distracted by the frightening surfer dude. *shudder* Hubby’s weird, but thankfully in a creepy, super-villain kind of way. Seriously. I think Heath’s Joker was based on my husband. Help?
Jenny you are so totally hilarious. I don’t think I have laughed so hard in a while. I do believe you have the best blog I have ever read. I will definitely be bookmarking it just to keep up with your YouTube videos and see what comment of the day you might have to make me laugh. I would love to win a copy of The Big Picture. I love the cover for it too. Maybe I’ll win it for my birthday a couple days late-August 2nd.
Oh, yeah, WordVixen, thank GOODNESS your hubby is weird in the creepy villain way. Definitely . : ) (Never introduce me to him…)
And welcome Patty! Glad you found us!
oh omg i love the madea movies especially the madeas family reunion! omg! hilarious!