Pamela Ribon's Blog: the latest from pamie.com, page 9

Hey, Pamie: "I'm Uncomfortable with My Huge Doc."

This week's Weekly Procrastination came via Twitter DM, so forgive the format.

HATETHEDRAKE
I have a stupid question, if you have a moment. I promise it has nothing to do with Darlene Hunt.

PAMIE
Shoot.

HATETHEDRAKE
When you wrote your novels, did you keep them as just one giant doc, or did you have separate docs for chapters, sections?

PAMIE
One doc, but another one for outline, another for clipped words/stuff to add later/research.

HATETHEDRAKE
It's a terrifyingly large doc. Don't know why it...

This just happened on my Facebook chat.

Tilda Whirl: TELL ME EVERYTHING ABOUT JON HAMM.

Me: HE IS DREAMY AND WAS WEARING A SUIT AND AT ONE POINT WE MADE EYE CONTACT BEFORE HE POINTED BEHIND ME TOWARD THE BATHROOMS BECAUSE I GUESS HIS FRIEND HAD TO PEE.

Me: AND THEN ANOTHER TIME I TOTALLY PRETTY MUCH MAYBE "ACCIDENTALLY" FRONT-FROTTAGED HIM WHILE SAYING "EXCUSE ME." I said "excuse me," so it's okay.

Tilda: Armov and I have a Hamm obsession so I am copying it to her as well

Me: He looks exactly like Jon Hamm. Sadly, I didn't get a...

Hey Pamie: "How do I Contact a TV Writers Room?"

More importantly: I want to know if it's "Writers Room" or "Writer's Room" or "Writers' Room." I work in these things and I'm not sure if I'm spelling it correctly. I think people write it "Writers Room" but that looks all kinds of wrong to me.

What I write following this email probably isn't the answer she's looking for, but…

Greetings Pam

I am asking a question about writers rather than writing: how does a person go about contacting the writers of a sitcom? Your first reaction to this...

Why I'm Missing Mindy Kaling's Book Signing (More Proof I Can Never Be Cool)

So I've had this cold. It's been going on for over a week at this point, which is ridiculous. Listen, if I go through all the trouble to be responsible and get the flu shot before flu season, I shouldn't be able to get sick for ten days straight with anything. I should get credit for letting someone stick a needle in my arm in the back of a Vons next to the frozen food section.

Being sick has been a real pain in the ass, as it's been a busy couple of weeks — the kind of busy where I can't...

Hey, Pamie: "How Do You Start Writing A Novel?"

I have a new editor on this new manuscript. I was nervous for the past few weeks knowing that the manuscript was on her to-read-and-edit pile. It was like I'd changed schools, got a new teacher, and wanted to find out if I was still considered a good student.

I got an A!

Karen only had good things to say about the manuscript and I'm quite relieved. She gave me notes to incorporate after we receive the copyedits, and the book is still on track to be released July 2012.

I'm incredibly nervous...

The day I have to finally admit that I might be rapidly turning into Hoda.

I've mentioned before, but probably not on pamie.com, that I watch Kathie Lee and Hoda most mornings. That's not exactly true — I have it on while I'm working. Depending on which part of the house I choose to work from that day (couch if I'm feeling frustrated, desk if I'm feeling self-punishey), I will let the TV do its thing from The Today Show all the way to that silly fourth hour of booze and constant chit-chattering. It makes me feel like I'm at an office, stuck in a corporate job I...

Hey, Pamie: "Do you believe in self-promotion?"

I'm back from Austin Film Festival, where I am always reminded that people have lots and lots and lots of questions about what exactly it is writers do and how exactly do they do it. I'd do a writers panel or a roundtable every day if you let me, and since there's no shortage of questions coming through email to my inbox, I thought I'd start up a weekly column. It's just another way for me to procrastinate, but I prefer to call it "giving back."

Here's our first one.

Hey, Pamie!

Do you...

Djörk

I am headed to the Austin Film Festival tomorrow (click here for my panel info), and some of you who follow me on Twitter have already warned me to be careful since Johnny Depp will be there as well and there's the potential for me to do something like that time I accidentally made an asshole out of myself in front of Apparently not all of you bother to be on Twitter, so I have learned that not all of you know...

Maybe you can find it.

I'm looking for a United Way poster from the past. I've been searching the Internet trying to gain access to archives, but I'm turning up nothing. It's also possible that it's not United Way, but it's March of Dimes. It's from the late 1950′s, possibly the early 1960′s, and it's one of those posters featuring an attractive, smiling Poster Child who is either thanking you for your support or reminding you of where your donations are going. It's possible that it's specific to Stratford...

These Boots Are Made for Mocking

Dear Stacy:

UPDATE.

These boots you helped me find, both are going back.

The Frye "banana" is really more of a tan, and might work if I popped it with a crazy red or that blue you were coveting. That being said, it fits like a galosh, and is really pooling around my ankles. The Madewell boots are extremely tight at the top of my calf, making me look like I've got muffin top legs, and pool so much around the ankles I appear to be melting.

sadness. diving back in.

-p

BOOOOOOOOOOOOO. Booots.

That...