Month: January 2008
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What Do the Numbers Mean?!
Normally when I’m pondering that question, it’s because I just saw another fantastic episode of Lost. But tonight after Lost, I’ll be asking that question again, because it’s the premiere of Eli Stone! See, if they get good numbers, then their show can get picked up for another season, which means good news for the…
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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…
