Category: Blog
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Come See Me! — Los Angeles Times Festival of Books 2011
Attention all Southland book-nerds and stalkers, this is your warning that I will be in public, answering questions and dorking out on the lovely USC campus, Saturday, April 30th for a discussion and book signing.
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OED! OMG!!
It is surprising you didn’t get a phone call at around 11:30pm my time last night, as I wanted to call every single person in the world after I read the following email:
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Mother on the Orient Express: Part Five (The Train)
We only had one night on the Orient Express. You could go longer. You could start in Rome and have two nights on the train (and if I could do this again, and had much more money, this would be it.)
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It’s Not That Scary: Shooting a Gun
I’m not sure how Jason got it into his head that I needed to shoot a gun. I know that he’s not the only person in my life who assumed I would enjoy such a thing. Chris Huff, a weapons expert, has wanted to take me to a shooting range for years. It’s only his…
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Mother on the Orient Express: Part Four (Venice)
Before I continue, I need to take a moment to compliment every single person who works for the brand that is Orient Express. Their attention to detail is phenomenal, but my travel agent Heather was so spectacular that I wrote letters of praise to anyone who would listen. So when I’m about to complain about…
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“I’m sure you’ll get it. I mean, look at you.”
What I said last year to the nervous guy sitting next to me in a FOX waiting area who was there to audition for Glee. He turned out to be Chord Overstreet. I now feel okay with all the objectifying I was mentally doing to him and his guitar case. Because I was right.
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Mother on the Orient Express: Part Three
Yesterday would have been my parents’ 37th wedding anniversary. It made me remember how there was supposed to be a third person on this trip with my mom. Dad.
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Mother on the Orient Express: Part Two
Did I mention that seconds after Mom showed me her dead cell phone, I found her boarding pass on the floor of the restaurant? This is when I confiscated all of her travel documents, and would not let her have them in her possession… until we ended up in a fight while being forced to…
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Mother on the Orient Express: Part One
While I was eating dinner tonight “Sentimental Journey” played over the restaurant’s speakers. I’m well aware that I probably heard it more because I was sensitive to hearing it, but I still think it was a gentle reminder that I needed to get my ass in gear and write up these stories.
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Putting Me Out There
In case you were coming here looking for a collection of my Valentines Day Poems: The best place to go is here. As you read this, Glark is hard at work, tirelessly attempting to wrangle the beast that is pamie.com into something that can reload with dignity. After looking through thirteen years of file dumping, he has…