Category: Blog

  • closer.

    tentative deal released.

  • text exchange during today’s strike captains meeting.

    text exchange during today’s strike captains meeting.

    MSG: I hear the strike is over?!? ME: No. MSG: That’s what I heard. ME: Because you get all your info from strike-bullshit-and-lies.com. Instead, read here.

  • M Giant wrote a book!

    Jeff Alexander: A TV Guide to Life: How I Learned Everything I Needed to Know From Watching Television

  • i sound like sneeze.

    i sound like sneeze.

    Wha?! Hello? Whazza–hunh? Mmf. I just woke up on the couch. German subtitled movies aren’t so good on a Friday night when you’re ill, unless you want to fall asleep. I’ve figured out where this cold came from. The recipe: 1. Picket in the rain. 2. Picket in the cold. 3. Picket in the cold…

  • 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…

  • 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

  • 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…

  • 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.

  • 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,…

  • 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