Author: Pamie

  • go, ray, go!

    I want to write about this weekend’s Festival of Books experience, but before I go all nerdtastic on you, and continuing the “Where Are They Now” aspect to my posts lately (Michelle is working on an update about her mom for all y’all), I have to give excited props to my former roommate Ray, who…

  • Fake Viewer Mail

    [readermail] Hey, Pamie. Longtime reader here. I was just wondering what happened to your friend Michelle Biloon, the one who used to run an advice column in your forum with her mother? Fun fact about Michelle: She once got her viewer mail answered on the Letterman program. True story! Love, Bigger Michelle Fan Than You…

  • where ya at?

    it has become that strange world where my friends have fallen into the television.

  • maybe if i called it “a” liquor store?

    I just bought a bottle of vodka at the liquor store. After handing over my purchase, the man behind the counter said to me, “See you tomorrow.” … That can’t be a good sign. (I’ve only been there twice!)

  • Sending Letters to the Universe

    Happy Birthday, Jeff “Old Man” Long. Uncle Junior is wearing a party hat and not much else. Dan, I miss you. Please come home soon. Al, if the B-52’s can write a love song to a wig, so can you. Rebecca, I cannot wait to throw down at your wedding…but how will we ever top…

  • keep your armies in your sleevies.

    Whenever I open a new bag of cat food and pour it into the cat food container, Taylor acts like he just won a jackpot, pulling himself up to the stream of kibble, trying to catch one in his mouth mid-stream. I can’t imagine how much more delightful and tasty one-second old kibble is compared…

  • showtime.

    Chris Ware illustrates this segment on a grade school camera fad, from the series This American Life on Showtime. [link via Bookslut.]

  • Comedy.

    Come see me! CIRQUE DU BASTARD Brently Heilbron and friends Release your inner illegitimate child with Brently Heilbron’s Cirque du Bastard. From the creator of The Richard Simmons Mysteries comes the story of the unwanted children of Cirque Du Soleil. Half-French Canadian, half-human being, entirely epic. Starring a litany of “musicians and comedians substituting acrobatics…

  • i just had the most boring dream of all time…

    … in which I cleaned my ears, and then updated my MySpace page.