June 2011
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“Davis staged and filmed a kidnapping (‘I checked with a lawyer first to...”
– Boy, some people have all the good ideas.
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Short Stories You Should Read By People I Know in...
“Something Gordon Never Thought Himself Capable Of,” by Salvatore Pane
“Belly of a Fish,” by Rachel Mangini
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Today in Nerd-dom
I met a woman who said to me, “Hmmm, that is an interesting necklace,” but I could tell by her voice that she knew exactly what was interesting about it, so I cut her a break and said, “Yes. It’s a Golden Snitch.” She got very excited and pointed out the seven stars tattooed on her neck (“For Horcruxes!” she said [and I was like, “Death Eater,...
Notes for a Future Love Letter to Pittsburgh:
My friend Caitlin is coming to visit in a week for a really important reason, and she sent me an e-mail this morning stating that since this will be her only vacation this summer, she is planning to turn Pittsburgh into her island paradise. I explained that this is a city that benefits from low expectations, and so to come prepared for a reasonably-priced-drinks-and-more-trees-than-anticipated...
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“I loved playing those characters; I didn’t play one, I played a lot. If I were...”
– Jaleel White, on Family Matters.
(A couple of weeks ago during a car trip Kevin and I were discussing Family Matters in some detail [as couples do], focusing particularly on how weird it was when Stefan Urquelle started to exist, and when he proposed to Laura in Disneyland, and did Steve and Laura...
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The "Writing" Life: Part One Thousand Out of An...
The power went out in our apartment a couple of hours ago, so now I am Writing in a Starbucks, which, ugh, you guys! It makes me feel so dirty. I also feel dirty because the power went out before I took a shower and I was too scared to shower in the dark.
Anyway, is there any way to roll my eyes at strangers but let them know that I am actually just rolling my eyes on their behalf?
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Summer 2011, Notes and Figures:
The days when I eat breakfast correlate mysteriously with the days I feel optimistic about the world and my place in it. So far there have been maybe 8 of these days.
The number of adaptations of Jane Eyre that I am planning is 2. The number of stories which feature a grown-up Nancy Drew as a background character that I am writing is 1.
The number of stories I have had rejected so far this...
This Is a Post About Politics And a Post About...
If I still lived in New York, I’d probably be very angry about Anthony Weiner, because I’d have more invested in him. I have watched many videos of Anthony Weiner yelling sarcastically, and I have chuckled appreciatively at all of them, but I was so angry most of the time I lived in New York that I think I would have identified with his sarcastic yelling, cherished it, made it my own....
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Oh hey,
I’m going to be in Dublin and Edinburgh and Nottingham and Cambridge and London at the end of July. Pip pip cheerio.
