Year: 2008
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books are still not on strike
John Elder Robison: Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger’s Mahlena-Rae Johnson: Steve the Penguin Anxiously awaiting: Heather Cocks, Jessica Morgan: Go Fug Yourself: The Fug Awards
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inbox, part eight.
It has been a very difficult week. Picketing in the rain was the least of the crappy things. So, when it gets like this I post mail from y’all, because it reminds me of how big and huge the world is, and how lucky I am. I kind of disappeared there for a month back…
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what i get for tooling around the internet at this hour.
In the seemingly never-ending list of examples where my name is screwed up, this one is pretty good. …pretty, pretty, pretty good.
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Name Dropping… and Shattering.
A criticism an old boyfriend used to give me (I’ll leave out his name so that it doesn’t look like I’m complaining) is that I go too far back in time to start my stories. “I ask you when did you return the video,” he’d say, “and you start with, ‘Back when I was six,…
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books are not on strike
Michael Erard: Um…: Slips, Stumbles, and Verbal Blunders, and What They Mean Luis Alberto Urrea: The Hummingbird’s Daughter recently tore through: Steve Almond: Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America Elizabeth Berg: The Art of Mending
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books are not on strike
My latest sew-sew-sew projects are from Every Day something-something-Japanese. Making a blouse from a Japanese pattern resulted in two things: I felt extremely proud of myself when I created something that looked similar to the picture, seeing as how the directions are in Japanese. And two: it ended up being too small for my American…
