Congratulations to Angela Nissel...Her up and coming book, Broke Diaries was given an excellent review in Publisher's Weekly! The best is yet to come!!!



Publishers Weekly
January 22, 2001
Page 309 (Non-fiction Forecast Section)

The Broke Diaries:
The Completely True and Hilarious Misadventures of a Good Girl Gone Broke.
Angela Nissel
(April)

The Internet has been around long enough as a venue for works like the diary
presented here, which debuted online, for such works to have lost some of
their mystique. Still, Nissel deserves her moment in the sun. As a struggling
college student at the University of Pennsylvania, she decided that to keep
her mind off of her empty stomach, she would keep a journal of her days and
post it on the Net.
The result is a series of biting, funny entries about the evil atmosphere of
check-cashing offices, the horror of being two cents short for the grocery
bill and the joys of making friends who buy dinner.

Her wry thoughts about being flat broke will appeal to readers who enjoyed
Bridget Jones's exploits and similarly sparky works. Nissel is no fictional
Bridget, however, obsessing about weight and cigarettes. She's a city girl
who knows the exact price of Ramen Noodles and the pain of counting pennies.
Although she occasionally recycles material, she rants with aplomb, using
colorful anecdotes (her elderly landlord comes for the rent and ends up
falling asleep on the couch) to pull the reader further into her impoverished
reality. She doesn't delve into the actual fear and pain associated with
poverty, but views her time of hunger with amusement, like a financial
misadventure that she always knew would end. Charming and sharp, Nissel's
diary will be relished by anyone who's ever been a student and remembers
those ramen noodles.

Forecast: With a blurb from Chris Rock, a five-city author tour, stickering
campaigns in several key cities and a low cover price, this paperback
original is poised for success.


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Congrats Angie! Top 10 list here she comes!
Dove
~Sheepish Lordess of Chaos~

"I bet I can write a sentence that's decipherable without the assistance of a decoder ring purple plexiglass manwich toddle biddy" - Mosaic

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Thanks for posting, Flo. ;)

*******Quote for the day**********
O xien angellein Lacedaimoniois hoti tede keimetha tois keinon rhemasi peithomenoi. - Simionedes


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Why is De La Soul the truth???

What's my muthasucken AIM??? chrisroc07

Peace and blessings
Chris Roc

angie, angie, angie, angie, angie.....


"There is no art when one does something without intention."
- Duke Ellington

"I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty.
Actually, I'm more intrigued by the 23 percent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves."
Jerry Garcia

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Who's dat girl?

(those of yall who dont know, way back in the day she posted with the name ayana)

If so, is that you on the love poems joint? new work coming soon?


Peace to ang too, now that Im working I can support more. Youve come far, dont think youre too cool for us though

I don't know the last time she posted and she even remembered her password! Wooooooooo!

http://www.thebrokediaries.com - you know you want to.

angieee ('stress)

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I'm all amped, 'cause Pub Weekly is like the INDUSTRY mag for literary ish.

and I just received more good news about my book after I read this review.

And damn, I am so blessed.

And I hope everyone reading this devotes some time to something they *love* and something they believe in. Not tomorrow, dammit. Now.

I am so overjoyed to see that people *get* what I wrote. All I wanna do is see people laugh, and I'm willing to put my own foibles out there to make it happen.

All my sarcasm has been drained. I look like a newly-crowned Miss America on ecstacy, I am smiling like a clown right now.

Love!

http://www.thebrokediaries.com - you know you want to.

angieee ('stress)

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"There is no art when one does something without intention."
- Duke Ellington

"I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty.
Actually, I'm more intrigued by the 23 percent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves."
Jerry Garcia

Much congrats for the review...

>And I hope everyone reading this
>devotes some time to something
>they *love* and something they
>believe in. Not tomorrow, dammit.
>Now.

Believe me, I do. In fact, I write. :) Maybe someday I'll get Chris Rock to say that my book was the best book he's read since... uh... yeah...

-thebigfunk

You are an inspiration! I am proud of you and happy that we can all share the joy of your successes!
^5 and hugz

Sugah
The Erotic Blossom

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Next stop, Oprah Book Club......

I will try to bogard my way into the book club, and will probably be the only male in that piece, surrounded by Euro-American soccer moms trying to pick Angieee's book apart.

Peace!!!!!!

BurbKnight- Software Developer (Gyrodata Inc.- Houston)

"Teach a man to fish and he won't eat"- my co-worker

Houston OkayPlayer Squad:

BurbKnight, Finesse, k_ysla, Solange, PolarBear, chocolateboywonder a.k.a BrotherBear (on and off), ReignStorm, MeganF (on and off), Ms.B, SoulOne, unohoo, pheen, slimpockets, voodoo1, bc, DELTA1393, foxfoto, SupermanFrom281, copperwings, MrBastard, Madame X, sthngrl


AIM: BurbKnight

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Quality Paperback Club and Black Expressions! BONUS! BONUS!!! Show me my check!

(As funny as it sounds to say I made these two clubs, it's actually a big deal. I feel like a big dork though. I'm a Quality Paperback BookClub Selection! Wanna play horseshoes?!!! Doi! Duh! Doh!)

Now, I hope Oprah is reading this thread. That would be cool. I wanna sit in Oprah's chair and talk about food stamps and Turdboys. If I get on, I promise to cry at one point.

"Oprah, when I used to steal from the corner store and kiss boys just to getMcNuggets, I never thought I'd be here in Chicago with you. The closest I thought I'd get to Chicago was this rapper I worked with...what is his name? Thank you, O, thanks for saving me!!!"

And then I'll cry.

Test me. If I get on that bitch, I'll act a damn fool. Giving shoutouts to y'all and ish.

http://www.thebrokediaries.com - you know you want to.

angieee ('stress)

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Will we be catching 'Stress and A-Dub doing some of that tasteless Michael Douglas/Catherine Zeta Jones tag-team interview crap too?

Just wonderin' while I'm waiting for the book to drop

winboog

> Will we be catching 'Stress
>and A-Dub doing some of
>that tasteless Michael Douglas/Catherine Zeta
>Jones tag-team interview crap too?

No, that would be wack. And I am too single to be even seen with man on my public appearances. Rumors might fly. My goal is to GET DATES (eff marriage. just dates.) not have people thinking I'm hitched.

>Just wonderin' while I'm waiting for
>the book to drop.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0679783571/qid%3D981127871/107-1329951-1954967

I like that link.

http://www.thebrokediaries.com - you know you want to.

angieee ('stress)

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>No, that would be wack. And
>I am too single to
>be even seen with man
>on my public appearances. Rumors
>might fly. My goal is
>to GET DATES (eff marriage.
>just dates.) not have people
>thinking I'm hitched.
>

Well, uuuuuuse me, uuuuuuse me, cause I ain't your average groupie © Sir Mix-A-Lot :D

Peace!!!!!!

BurbKnight- Software Developer (Gyrodata Inc.- Houston)

"Teach a man to fish and he won't eat"- my co-worker

Houston OkayPlayer Squad:

BurbKnight, Finesse, k_ysla, Solange, PolarBear, chocolateboywonder a.k.a BrotherBear (on and off), ReignStorm, MeganF (on and off), Ms.B, SoulOne, unohoo, pheen, slimpockets, voodoo1, bc, DELTA1393, foxfoto, SupermanFrom281, copperwings, MrBastard, Madame X, sthngrl


AIM: BurbKnight

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Ang, let's just say you get all rich and ish.... right?

And I think I have asked this question before, just don't forgot how you answered it.

Would your next book be called "HAHAHAAAAA SUCKAS, YOU BOUGHT MY BOOK AND NOW THE BROKE GIRL IS NO MORE!!!!" ?

By the way, you can use that title if you wish.

Peace!!!!!!

BurbKnight- Software Developer (Gyrodata Inc.- Houston)

"Teach a man to fish and he won't eat"- my co-worker

Houston OkayPlayer Squad:

BurbKnight, Finesse, k_ysla, Solange, PolarBear, chocolateboywonder a.k.a BrotherBear (on and off), ReignStorm, MeganF (on and off), Ms.B, SoulOne, unohoo, pheen, slimpockets, voodoo1, bc, DELTA1393, foxfoto, SupermanFrom281, copperwings, MrBastard, Madame X, sthngrl


AIM: BurbKnight

Houston's next hip-hop sensation, K-Otix, homepage:
http://www.k-otix.com

Okayplayer Directory: http://theblackknight.tripod.com/okayplayer/okayplayer.html

so which 5 cities will you be hittin up?....and how can I be down w/a sticker?....this'll make up for that gas money you owe me. ;-)

Congrats, I really cannot wait to read this book.

Silk.
Peace

Go Girl! God Bless!!

and um

Flo, where HAVE YOU been???

Ciao!

---Kathy--

"You could get in the game, but who's ahead in the race?"--Evidence

"Drunk off the irony..it's sweet intoxication"--Lauryn Hill

*hooray for emoticons*
:-) :-( ;-) :o :D x(
}> :'( :P :9 :* :7

Whats the deal, its Abb....O'S brother! I need his beep #, (cant find that kat nowhere!!!)...and wanna know whats ya deal too...hit me back here...or abbstrack@yahoo. Peace Lady.






One Love

"Old Pirates yes the rob I, sold I to the merchant ship"

-Robert Nesta Marley

"Who the cap fit, let them wear it"

-Bob Marley

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Hahahahahaha!!!

You reviewed it.

http://www.thebrokediaries.com - you know you want to.

angieee ('stress)

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good stuff ang-money

-even sounded like the writer mightve been approaching the book with a negative perception to begin with (re: 'for such works to have lost some of their mystique' --- blahhh)
but was won over

-sometimes ish is undeniable

meant to write

sometimes good ish is undeniable

"the world is truly just one race, however we the people have applied color, and took away the justice for all under one nation."



http://www.k-otix.com/
http://www.giftworldnet.com/yourheartsdesire/
-- http://www.yourheartdesire.com --coming soon!! :-)

Lady_Finesse

Eff an angie, flo rules.
Just playing.
Ang is good for the environment she recycles material, maybe the EPA will write her a dope review.
Peace,
Steve
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Pootie-Tang~3000/sadatay!-fire

"They talk about the phyicallity when JohnColtrane made Love Supreme.Well when you have a deep intellectual mind set you gotta ask yourself what is
physical?"-Brandford M....

Sun-das...ill!
Liquid Emotions
the Album coming soon...
...Introducing Avant Garde HipHop

I donate books to the hospital childern ward where my moms work at..n/m usually i give books they csn relate towards.Your book should be very relatable...i gonna keep one...hopfully it will be autographed...



Pootie-Tang~3000/sadatay!-fire

"They talk about the phyicallity when JohnColtrane made Love Supreme.Well when you have a deep intellectual mind set you gotta ask yourself what is
physical?"-Brandford M....

Sun-das...ill!
Liquid Emotions
the Album coming soon...
...Introducing Avant Garde HipHop

Cyber_Soul Renaissance webpage cominsoon


Future childern names:
______________________
Duaghter:Zora Destiny Hyman
Son:Miles Freedom Hyman

What is the release date of the book?

"If we don't meet no more in this world, I'll meet you in the next one, and don't be late..." Jimi Hendrix

Relentless realism regardless represents
South West goes out, possess the manifest that's heaven sent
What's said is meant to the fullest extent
No nonsense because my conscience wouldn't be content
But just a little wealth, a little fame
But your mind-frame will keep you living the same
And it's a shame that niggas would settle with the ghetto
Huh, hoes have some clothes that ain't makin what you suppose
Let your eyes close to what your contract shows
and fine print, they gotta get back every cent you spent
You content cuz, you do what everybody does
The industry that change you from the person you was
Knee-deep in the struggle
Two part-time jobs to juggle
Gotta lady and a c that you can't hardly feed
Any day your life could end so you depend
on the reciting and the writing when you got the spare time to spend
To keep you stable, hopin one day you'll be able
To be a commodity on somebody's record label
Got your chance, twenty thousand dollar advance
and a car and all of a sudden you a star at the bar
ballin, callin the waiter to bring one of they finest wines
Then you started snortin lines, your life defines
the misconception of stayin down
You can't be influenced by everybody you hang round
You shoulda been more appreciative
of the life that you were blessed to live
A hundred percent is what you got to give
Cos ain't no tellin, yo' bullshit start smellin
And you wonder why your record ain't sellin
no more, endin up with no dough
and no respect back in the projects
and building 23, right next door to me--Cee-Lo, Decisions, Decisions

Congrats Angie!!! Yo, just make sure you come to the Chi if you go on a book signing tour. I want my copy autographed . . . along wit' a picture . . . along wit' a Okayplayer gear DISCOUNT (hahaha!!!). Congratulations baby!!! You ought to be April's Okay feature artist!

I'm sooooo proud. *wiping tear from eye* Congratulations, girl! :7

*********************************************************
"Speak, so that you may speak."--Zora Neale Hurston

"What is to give light must endure the burning."--Dr. Victor Frankl

http://members.BlackPlanet.com/MindSexiest
...to see me in all my Blackmagicallydeliciousness :*

http://www.javanoire.com
...where I read, sell jewelry, etc. in the TC

be on the lookout for my jewelry on eBay February/March 2001...support black owned business

The reviews and buzz, parrallels the press the New Testament got.And we all know how big that was. Really though, I can't wait to read this shit. Also when is the NY signing, I need a sticker!

&wityowrinkledpussCeyecantByourluvrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.....

Gangsta ---> http://shoetrends.com/jordan13low.htm

"Look thru my window at night, and you'll get glass in yo eye"
-(c) Lynch

whateva, she getting fame a fortune off of being broke? What's wrong with this picture? I don't see anyone breaking down my door and I'm broke as hell. Prolly not even that funny clitriders.

Eff an Angie


I want to cook you a soup that warms your soul - Sade

I know your hard work will translate into many more blessings girl. Congratulations. I'm trying to get a book signed though!





peace, Apostle Jahbryll


5 Deadly Venom Spitters - No One is Safe
Just shut the fuck up and take it!



--------------------Quotes--------------------


Back to the original:

"I promise that I will not answer the phone when it rings love, while we do our thing love" Q-Tip

i hope you go platinum or whatever they call it for selling books
I'll for sure pick up a copy in april. And imma wait for the book signing events so i can like scream and faint while in your presence.

Peas and Loaves


Founder of M.W.S
Get under our "covers"

CEO of Human Milk for America
and M.I.L.K Speaker of the House

And imma
>wait for the book signing
>events so i can like
>scream and faint while in
>your presence.

And then I'd storm out of my own book siging like "This is so beneath me!".

Or yo, I could sign your book, then you faint and (we gotta make sure you're the first in line) I say "The DEVIL TOLD ME I HAD THE BOOK SIGNING CURSE!!!" and see of everyone else gets out of line!

Let's do that shit!!!


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angieee ('stress)

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coz all I have for Angie is Caviar wishes and champagne dreams.

Congrats again. My offer stands, I'll help anyway you need.



Suggestions and comments?
mikeone@mail.com
AIM: ok mikeONE

congrats ang






Good mourning, good afternoon, good nightWhat have you done with
your life? -Kweli

I know no prejudice, I bare no sentiments
For wealth or settlement, I move forward I am time- Mosdef

I'm learning the rules so I know how 2 break them properly.

"You must first recognize the need to change. This does not necessarily imply that there is anything wrong with the way you are. It means you are willing to do better and be better at whatever it is you do." IYANLA VANZANT


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Kyle

Surgeon General... - DPS...drunk posters society...y'all ain't ready!?!? We soldiers.

Drunkin' Starli Quotes:
"Hey man..i can lock a hoggie too!"

"i always tell people that fame is
nothing but a good publicist, while
talent is a genuine article..." ~ Pozi

yeah, the book is a great accomplishment, but angie's TRUE accomplishment is popularizing the use of "eff" and "ish" in the place of profanity, making the Internet safe for young people. ;-)

Thoughtfully yours,

Spirit

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spirit, you bring a valid eff'n point.
i once was a cussing boy.
i cussed left, cussed right.
then ran across this eff'n girl named angie.
well, i don't cuss no mo.
that's my ish. :)


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the god's leaking all that prosperity on you, huh?

lots of reparations from that wack critisism that that souped-up ass english teacher gave you early on, huh?

eff 'em.

well, you already know what I'm wanting to say anyway, so I'll lay off of the repetitive tip.

on a side note, a little update on my current standing with mission "nissel". I've got like, 400 of these stickers left for the taking, and those sweet old folks down at my local nursing home have put a restraning order on me (hint, hint...find my name in your e-mail box).

can you believe that? damn them.

its nothing. no pressure on my end of it (and that's a tentative title).

you know me stucky!

holla (via email)!

Raw and unprotected like porn flicks,
e-Factor

One man's simple is another man's huh—David Stone, 1979

I put my lifetime in between the paper's lines—Prodigy of Mobb Deep, 1999

Exercise intellect, if you lack it pretend—Sole, 1999

Peace and love to all the zodiac signs—Zion of Zion I, 2000

Congratulations!!!! :D

angiee i want my cut!
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"stupidity runs" The Goose


People hold on to religion, like a crutch because they can't make it any other way. With religion you stop being responsible for your own actions and blame someone else like God when it's something you like and the Devil when it's something you don't like.

...btw, when you come to the book signing in New York City I'll be sure to throw my Okay-drawers at you and brag on how I knew you b4 you were big and claim "we had suttin' going" (but if anyone asks YOU didn't dump ME)....don't worry, the drawers are clean...last time I checked...



Yunique (aka Kwame de l'Afrique)

***
"There's no Jazz without America...there's no America without Jazz"
-Art Blakey

"Hypocrites... are not to be killed, for Allah desires them to be made examples for others by chastising them, like a parent does a child."
- Elijah Muhammad

"Knowledge is like a garden : if it is not cultivated, it cannot be harvested."
-African Proverb (Guinea)

thank me for the short sig. later.....

e-me :Kwame de Afrique@aol.com
im-me : Yunique140 (aim)

Sure would like to see ya'll in Memphis..c'mon! Dice Raw and Scratch came(cool show, by the way). Oh, well, I'll be sure to cop it.

"You're here, I'm pleased, i really dig your company" Jilly from Philly

can't wait to get my own copy.

and have an LA book signing at barnes/borders/or waldens!





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"leave chicks pigeon-toed"-jay-z

Koreans in KOREA!!!!!

take a bath, wash ya self(sing that to mystical's beat)

>can't wait to get my own
>copy.
>
>and have an LA book signing
>at barnes/borders/or waldens!

how is she gonna have a book called the "Broke Diaries" and have book signings only at large chain stores? She need to do some signings on street corners, in dumpsters, subways....keep it real Ang!!!!

Congrats, girlfriend....and oh yeah....make sure you pack plenty of singles into your wallet tomorrow ;-)

d

I see Beatles type stuff, I see movies, I see dropping acid, I see some freaky concept book with a weird title like Freddy Stardust's Southpaw Chicken Fetish that totally revolutionizes the way books are written, I see smashed up hotel rooms and tumultous love affairs and then, like, 40 years from now, there's going to be a huge museum in Philly commemorating the fact that the one and only Angela Nissel grew up here.

Yeah, I'm on her tip, but it's cuz I'm proud.

"See, it might not seem like there's a lot of thought to this s**t. But that's cause a lot of muthaf****s don't think!" -- DeAundre (Sean Nelson) on The Corner

"Platonic Man!! Able to move from just meeting a broad to the friend zone faster than a speeding bullet!!" -- okayplayer J_Sun

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CONGRATULATIONS!

Can't wait to buy it.

(new link in angie's sig)

site is looking nice!
like the design a lot
'so fresh and so clean'