5 Movies Worth Watching

Yay for movies. Here we go: Warrior I love Mixed Martial Arts. I enjoy a decently made sports movie. I like Tom Hardy. Win! And if Tom Hardy’s traps are any indication, he’ll have no trouble dealing with Batman on July 20. Carnage Four nasty adults saying nasty things to each other and behaving increasingly [...]

January 23, 2012 READ MORE →

Library Hell

As much as you know I love my job, sometimes it’s…well, if you’re a librarian, you can fill in your own answer there. I’d probably agree with whatever it is. For nearly a year now, I’ve been gathering material for a new project: Library Hell. I’ve been taking submissions and have had a good enough [...]

January 20, 2012 READ MORE →

Secrets of a High-Maintenance Woman

I know what you’re thinking…”What business does this mirror-kissing, solipsistic, mucky hog of a male, with his bent glasses and broken teeth, have giving me advice about being a high-maintenance woman?” Take a breath. I know plenty. And I know it because I spent a good part of my day yesterday studying this textbook:

January 20, 2012 READ MORE →

Do You Have a “Loneliest Book?”

I wanted to write this post after reading Jonathan Lethem’s piece The Loneliest Book I’ve Read. It’s about a book he read (duh), and he had never met anyone else who had read it. This was a wonderful thing. I like wonderful things. So: I tapped my resources and wasted all my mental energy on [...]

January 19, 2012 READ MORE →

I Finally Read the Hunchback of Notre Dame

It took me a long time to get around to The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo. Just looking at it from my desk, I knew that it was one of those books where a perfectly good story gets interrupted occasionally by hundreds of pages about agrarian reform. I was wrong, but if you [...]

January 18, 2012 READ MORE →

“If This isn’t Nice, I Don’t Know What is”

And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, ”If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.”–Kurt Vonnegut, via Kurt’s Uncle Alex That’s how I feel today. There are two reasons. At least two. The first is that I was in a train [...]

January 17, 2012 READ MORE →

Observations From the Gym – Sleeveless Shirt Edition

I am surrending my dream of a gym where nobody struts. I’ve been in Denver for three days, climbing the walls because my mom only has a rack of 15 lb dumbbells. But today we went over to the rec center and did some training. A few observations: Cutting the sides out of your shirt [...]

January 16, 2012 READ MORE →

I Get to Speak at Gettysburg!

I just got invited to speak at Gettysburg, which is where the Pennsylvania Tourette’s folks have their Tourette’s camp. How cool is that? Now I’m off to grow a Civil War beard. Also, I will try to photograph a ghost for you all. Josh

January 12, 2012 READ MORE →

Like Shaking Hands With God – Lee Stringer and Kurt Vonnegut Talk About Writing

Like Shaking Hands With God: A Conversation About Writing is, unsurprisingly, a conversation about writing. But hold on! The two people chatting it up are none other that Kurt Vonnegut, for whom my adoration knows no bounds, and Lee Stringer, for whom my awareness was exactly zero before picking up this book. Based on what [...]

January 11, 2012 READ MORE →

Making Peace with the First Draft

Picture a steaming pile of rotting meat. Now dump lard on it. Now set the whole thing on fire. Let the fire go out and then wait until flies start settling. When the first maggots appear, throw a bunch of rotten cheese on top of it. Now we’re starting to approach how I feel about [...]

January 10, 2012 READ MORE →
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