July 2011
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Jul 31st
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WOMEN WRITING THE WEIRD →
Ooooh, boy, are you guys ever going to get sick of hearing about this, but I have a story coming out in an anthology called Women Writing the Weird later this year. Sometimes I think that if I had ever thought to devise a list of desired accomplishments, to be published in an anthology called Women Writing the Weird would have been right at the top of the list. Anyway, because the writers featured...
Jul 26th
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Jul 25th
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Edinburgh Notes
I have a cold. Today I came really close to crying in the bathroom of The Elephant House, which is where some lady started writing some book series about wizards or whatever. There are thank you messages, quotes, and comments of the “Ron Weasley is a babe” variety all over the walls, and I think it’s enough to make anyone emotional enough to take pictures and write on the walls...
Jul 21st
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Dublin Notes
The hostel categorizes Tumblr as pornography. Yesterday I saw a man grab a handful of flowers and soil out of a hanging plant and eat it? I am drinking a Guinness, obviously.
Jul 17th
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THINGS ARE HAPPENING
All my anticipatory energy has been focused on Harry Potter these last few weeks (which, by the way, was really excellent! I imitated Lucius Malfoy saying “Let us hope Mr. Potter will always be around to save the day!” over and over again for several hours preceding the film! I cringed at the community theater Bellatrix Lestrange who insisted on stomping around, Crucio-ing everybody in...
Jul 15th
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Jul 15th
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Jul 14th
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Topical Thoughts on the "Harry Potter and the...
If there’s one thing that Severus Snape would have hated—I mean, something that would really have gotten his goat—it would have been the prospect of Harry Potter naming a kid after him.
Jul 13th
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Jul 11th
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Recommendations for Summer 2011:
Avocados Going to the gym for the first time in your life; vaguely considering returning there at some point before your (doubtlessly premature) death Bored to Death’s silly but touching portrayal of friendship Not thinking about the future, really, or thinking about it, but only in very specific, crazy ways (i.e., what if we move to England and I can’t stop myself from developing...
Jul 7th
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“My mom was about to send an e-mail to someone in all Comic Sans, so needless to...”
– My baby brother’s Facebook status.
Jul 7th
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Jul 4th
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