Pamela Ribon

Month: February 2009

  • “And I’m singing ‘oh-oh’ on a Friday night…”

    Kate Nash: “Mouthwash“

  • unemployment = books + bath

    Dara Horn: The World to Come Jonathan Ames, Dean Haspiel: The Alcoholic Nancy Horan: Loving Frank

  • Song Sung Blue

    There are two things I know about Mark Blankenship. One: When he plays Celebrity, sometimes there are crickets. Two: I’m addicted to his Friday Music Quiz, where a reader shuffles his or her iPod and gives the first lines of the first thirty songs, and we spend a few days trying to name those tunes.…

  • Seven.

    Dear Dad, When I think about the fact that it’s been exactly seven years since you died, I don’t get sad. I get angry. I get this ball of fury under my ribcage that causes me to tremble and pace and wish there was something I could do. This helpless rage is not over how…

  • Aloha from Overwhelming Positivity Podcast 23: Tandoori Lady

    Aloha from Overwhelming Positivity Podcast 23: Tandoori Lady

    We didn’t just take a million pictures and post six thousand tweets. We made a podcast. I’m honored to have been a part of Overwhelming Positivity 32, where you learn about zipline freak-outs, island curses, and why we should get a refund from our stargazing trip. And it starts with my “phone voice.” We recorded…

  • Saying Your Names

    People have written to ask where the Valentine poems were this year. I didn’t do them, for three reasons. One being after ten years of writing them, I thought maybe leaving it at ten and out was a nice round number. Secondly, I’d just completed the manuscript and two straight years of work/strike/work, and was…

  • Forces of Nature

    First: A Short Play to Demonstrate the Amount of Control Anna Beth Chao Has Over My Life [Two women sit 1736 miles away from each other. An unemployed blonde with absolutely nothing to do for months stares at her living room bookcase, picks up her cell phone and sends a text.] PAMIE: What if I…

  • Three pretty pictures and three heart-stopping videos

    Three pretty pictures and three heart-stopping videos

    This weekend, it’s LA vs SD as the Varsity Brawlers take on The Swarm. This bout will sell out, so get your tickets like, right now.

  • Activating Niya: One More Time

    Niya’s back by popular demand! Shot just before the season wrapped (before Eyesplosion ’09), Niya let me know she still had something to say about stay-at-home mothers. Watch me grow increasingly uncomfortable until I’m reduced to just stuttering. Also: secret babies, and other horrible nightmares. (Watch it in High Quality. And there’s a little bit…

  • Every Tom, Dick and Tina…

    Robin: Hey, Pam? Pam: Yes, Robin? Robin: Do you think… do you think that The Smothers Brothers became “The Smothers Brothers” because they were brothers and their last name is “Smothers?” Pam: …Wow. Robin: I’m just wondering. Pam: As opposed to what?