Month: November 2003

  • scalzi’s book is out and I need your punctuation advice.

    You can buy it here. Do you think they meant to misspell “stupidity”? Also, my friend Laura and I spent a good ten minutes on Saturday debating the “? or “, If you’re quoting a word but you’re using it in a exclamation, and the word doesn’t have an exclamation as in — That sign…

  • Are You a Book Snob?

    Stephen King will get his Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters this week. Time Magazine thinks it’s time we stop with the book snobbery. Do you divide books as either worthy or trashy? Reading literature and having a damn good time had become quietly but decidedly uncoupled. And yet we think of this state…

  • The Future of Libraries

    I now have a large proportion of librarians out there in pamie.com land. Jessa sent me this link from the Philadelphia Weekly that might get you riled up enough to write letters to the editor. Shh! People Are Trying To Compute!

  • Barflies

    Something was noticably different as we drove up to my friends’ regular neighborhood bar last night. “Did the bar change owners?” I asked as we pulled into the parking lot. “No,” Hilary said. “Why?” “The sign on the front says ‘Dirty Sanchez‘.” “What?” “That’s what it says.” “Is it a banner?” “No, I think it…

  • new entry: barflies

    Just when I think I’m too busy to update, something so funny happens that I absolutely have to share it.

  • Dear pamie.com.

    I’m sorry I haven’t written a journal entry in a week. It’s not for lack of desire — it’s for lack of time. I’ve taken a temp second job and it’s the graveyard shift, so I will have little to no free time until Thanksgiving. Checking in on the blog, however, is not a problem.

  • dan recaps that he recapped a recap

    New Bachelor recap is up. I don’t even feel that bad that it’s so short, because it’s the reunion special and nooooooothing happened. Congressional filibuster? No. Dumont Network? Well, yes. I’m going to be in New Haven all day tomorrow. Anyone in New Haven wants to come and meet for snacks, you give me or…

  • How To Be Cool

    Pamie, help!!! I just received the newest product endorsement email from Glark, and – god, I’m so ashamed – I don’t get it. Here’s the link. Can you please help me? I hate being out of the loop. Like when I was in seventh grade and that hooch Shirley had all of these inside jokes…

  • and, just now…

    “For a guy who once equated gayness with bestiality, he’s awfully familiar with…the theater.” Jon Stewart, about Rick Santorum, in a story about –wait for it — filibusters.

  • dan asks, “does this ever happen to you, happen to you, happen to you?”

    When you have a job that requires writing approximately 6,000 words a day and you’ve been doing it with some level of consistency since October of 1999, you (if by you, you mean “me”) start to fall into some familiar patterns to get you (again, “me”) out of trouble just when you start to think…