Year: 2009
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currently reading/just read:
Malcolm Gladwell: Outliers: The Story of Success Carson McCullers: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter Banana Yoshimoto: Kitchen Christopher Potter: You Are Here: A Portable History of the Universe Bill Willingham, Lan Medina: Fables Vol 1: Legends in Exile Alessandro Baricco: Silk
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Liz Feldman Has a New Gig
Look, I have been friends with Liz Feldman for a very long time now and I can tell you with absolute certainty: that’s real fear in her eyes when Ray Liotta’s staring her down with his Manson Lamps. And that made me laugh.
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LADD: Sirens vs. Varsity Brawlers
April 18 – Sirens v. Varsity Brawlers At the Doll Factory, 1910 W. Temple Street, Los Angeles Buy Tickets Now! We keep selling out, so get your tickets early if you know what’s best for you. [Half-price tickets available here!!]
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Read and/or Reading
Amity Gaige: The Folded World. I fell completely, totally, 100% in love with this, and read almost all of it in a bathtub. Jonathon Keats: The Book of the Unknown: Tales of the Thirty-six Keith Gessen: All the Sad Young Literary Men Sloane Crosley: I Was Told There’d Be Cake
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“Don’t Bother Me, I’m a Douchebag Eating a Cheeseburger.”
“Did you ever have a boyfriend who treated you badly, and you wondered, ‘Where did he learn to treat women that way? Maybe from his dad?’ Well, if his dad was named Carl Senior, then yes.” — Sarah Haskins Target Women: Carl’s Jr.
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Wow, It’s Finally Happening.
This Thursday on ABC, 8:30/7:30c, watch Samantha Who?, episode: “THE DOG,” because I wrote it, which means it’s the only time my name’s in the credits at the front of the episode — the only time my family feels confident in telling people I write on the show. (“Well, otherwise your name goes so fast…
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Making Friday Feel Like Sunday
Someone said to me recently, “If I were in your situation right now, where I was totally unemployed? I would spend my entire morning in my robe, drinking coffee and reading, until it was time to sit outside in the sun, drinking champagne and reading. Perhaps still in my robe. That’s what I’d do every…