Year: 2004

  • This Flute of Mine, So Gay

    Right now somewhere in Los Angeles and New York, simultaneously, there’s a conference call to discuss whether or not our show is going to Aspen. We won’t know for a few hours. I’m trying to pretend my stomach isn’t twisting in knots. I’m working on one script while reading another, and because my brain is…

  • From One Bride to Another

    From One Bride to Another

    [readermail] Subject: Warning to My Bitch (At)! To: pamie@pamie.com Dear “Pamela”, “Please” accept this “warning” from New York: Wear my wedding “guests” out at your New Year’s “nuptials” and “I” will have you “kilt”. This is “not” a “joke”. “Love”, Faye [/readermail]

  • Share Your Wedding Nightmare Tuesday

    [readermail] Hi Pam! At the risk of sound like a Jane “It Happened to Me” column, I would like to present you with my very own wedding story. Not the stuff that makes it onto TLC, that’s for sure. In 1999, I was living in Indianapolis with my boyfriend. He proposed to me at the…

  • Gilmore Girls Recap 5.10

    Help-A-Gilmore Day: Rory wants to show a young Chilton girl a grand Yale time, but that requires the cooperation of everyone in her life. Same goes for Lorelai, when she wants to do something nice for Luke. Even her pregnant friends have to haul around furniture. When Rory’s “humiliated” in her class by Logan and…

  • California Library Update

    California Awards $80 Million in Library Construction Grants Oakland will build a new library next to two elementary schools in one of the city’s poorest neighborhoods, where many people struggle beyond the most basic reading skills. You helped draw attention to these struggling public library systems. Thank you.

  • Mailbag Monday

    [readermail] Subject: Book stuff and stuff and stuff. To: pamie@pamie.com Pamie, Remember me? The short girl who showed up at your performances (well, to Letters Never Sent and Call Us Crazy) with the tall guy and the…um. The tall girl? From San Diego? Your book signing! I’d been reading you since 1999 or so, and…

  • I’m not going to be

    I’m not going to be able to stop doing this.

  • Ha. Awesome. They’re all hilarious.

    Ha. Awesome. They’re all hilarious.

  • Isn’t She Lovely?

    I was going to just show you one of the pictures, but they’re all way too priceless.

  • Sometimes I try to shield

    Sometimes I try to shield the truth from you because I don’t want you to find out that sometimes all this hard work can be even more terrifying than sticking with The Plan. If you knew that having a book comes with it a slew of unanswerable questions about your future, friendships and talent, would…