Imagine my embarrassment...

...when, watching television this weekend, I see part of the movie, The Runaway Bride, starring Julia Roberts, and see that the name of the hair salon in her quaint little town is none other than "Curl Up & Dye." I have to go back and change that part of the manuscript now.

I saw the movie on video when it first came out. I've heard that there's a common memory problem in which people see something or hear something and years later come up with the same thing and think they've invented it. I never meant to use something from another source like that. I could have, upon seeing the movie again, claimed to have named the salon thusly as an homage to the movie, but please. It was nothing of the sort.

Somewhere in trying to come up with a name for the salon in Century, that name popped up in my brain and I used it. I thought it was damn clever. It was clever, but it wasn't my original thought. Now I'll have to be even more clever and rename the salon. All I can say for sure is that it won't become "Century Beauty Shop."

And the tribulations continue...