A Retraction
August 31st, 2007 by 
Ellen
Less time dancing; more time in the batting cage.
And I suspect that there is very little dancing going on in Foxboro–but, rather, business as usual.
Am I the only one who had no idea that tapping one’s right foot is code for “let’s have an assignation?”  (she said, politely–and also declining to post a link, since it’s all just too sad and tawdry)  What does it mean if you tap your left foot?Â
On second thought, maybe I don’t want to know.
 I’m not a big Katie Couric fan, but this stinks.
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September 1st, 2007 at 12:16 am
Um…yeah…I too did not know the “signals” for males in restrooms. I have learned waaaaay too much about this over the past week.
September 7th, 2007 at 3:27 am
Me either. I asked a gay male friend, and he laughed and told me all of his straight friends have been asking him this same question all week. He said he was sorry to see this little “secret” of the gay community be outed.
September 20th, 2007 at 6:26 am
I think it is a huge mistake for you to be rewriting the first three books to include the internet. I’ve never managed to read White House Autumn but I love The President’s Daughter and Long live the queen just the way they are and you should too.
September 21st, 2007 at 2:43 am
The changes are minimal–but, the books just need to be brought up to date, because the _new_ one is set post-Bush, and they won’t make any sense, otherwise. But, it’s really just a question of every so often, instead of going to her room to read, or saying she’s going to go call Beth, Meg goes to check her email. Tiny little changes you won’t even notice, unless you read the new editions while holding the old ones at the same time. But even using that method would take some effort, insofar as finding changes is concerned.
And Tab no longer particularly exists, so–what can I say–she drinks Coke now.
Mostly, I am just retyping the three books, because when I first wrote them, I didn’t have a computer (I was a Luddite, for a long time), and so they don’t even exist on a _floppy_, and need to be in computer format for the publisher.
September 21st, 2007 at 11:46 pm
What do you mean Tab doesn’t exist?? See the link from my name for photographic proof that it does exist (at least, it still exists and is being sold to us in Michigan!). I can understand *why* you’re updating, but I still think it sucks that Meg isn’t going to be drinking Tab anymore. It was one of the million fun personality quirks she had that I enjoyed. Plus, I can’t imagine anyone teasing her for drinking Coke because it is just so *normal*, and her occasional defense of Tab when people poked mild fun at her Tabmania was very Meggish. All I can say is that I will miss the Tab references in the new versions.