Quote of the Day, or LET THE SALINGER CORPSE-KICKING COMMENCE!
Think about what your child is ready to learn about or ready to hear. For example, we try to find books for Zac that re intellectually challenging and that don't have sexual issues in them, because we...
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I dunno, you can pick.
Tonight la_nausicaa and I went to an Indian joint around the corner. Sort of divey, clearly for the college crowd. (Obvious because it's August and the place was empty.) They took our orders, served us...
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Dream post (feel free to skip)
I was living in New York again and the "green job" fad was such that the Metropolitan Museum of Art had been municipalized and handed over to the extremely powerful 4H Club of Manhattan, though the...
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Olivia songs
la_nausicaa was in a band back in college. Smith, you know! This being the Internet, nothing ever truly goes away, so two songs recently resurfaced. One song was used on this Kickstarter video by a...
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Sorry to once again beat the drum for my forthcoming class here in Berkeley, but I must! Less than two weeks left to sign up, so if you were planning on it, please do! It's a lot of fun! (Mostly for...
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I am such a yenta
Humiliated by her beau's wayward eye and media hunger, Bristol Palin declares that from now on she'll seek in a partner "someone who has religious beliefs and a good family." I've got one for you!...
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Proposition 8, which barred gay marriage in California, has been struck down.Harlan Ellison, who left the Internet forever several weeks ago, is back on the Internet.IT'S A SHARK WEEK MIRACLE! TWO OF 'EM!
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I've eaten Ethiopian food twice.Why is that twice more than many of the contestants in Top Chef, who are supposed to be knowledgeable and experienced cooks, and thus knowledgeable and experienced eaters?
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The show's final challenge was about nature—a classic theme, to be sure. The contestants were driven up to Connecticut, though I still think the Hudson River Valley would have been a gimme. Results...
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A couple things
I was made on the street today, which is very unusual but not unheard of. It's Berkeley after all—a bookish college town where one actually has to work at not being a Local Character. Even more...
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Over at Haikasoru, I have news about ebooks.Also, this time tomorrow, I'll be in New York. Dunkin Donuts or Carvel, where should I stop first??!
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...is getting out of the mass market business.When it doesn't matter that you own the trucks and the routes anymore, it doesn't matter that you publish mass market paperbacks. The end.I DO wonder what...
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I can't wait till Vigilant Citizen, a kookblog about the occult symbology in popular culture—a blog which gets over 1000 comments for some of its posts!—gets a load of this video by Kanye West:
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Moron-only link:BECK: Oh, yes. He's the guy that usually when I release my books at the same time, he's No. 2.O'REILLY: OK. So you think he's jealous of you. He lives up in Maine, this guy. He writes...
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And when I'm on Long Island, that means lots of Greek television!Ladies and gentlemen, behold the Greek Jon Stewart (not safe for work, because Greek TV is awesome):Al Tsantiri News - Festival Malakias...
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Where's all the Monday-morning content on my favorite websites.Oooh, I'm in New York and nothing happens before 9AM Eastern. So much for magical content elves working while I sleep...
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My next class at the Writing Salons, or will start Saturday if we meet minimum enrollment numbers. I'll be there! Brownies will be there? Will yooooou be there? Be there!
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I just got this nice email, and it was attached to a gift certificate! Details redacted, though I am listed in the acknowledgements of the book so clever readers will discover it soon:Hi, Nick--I'm...
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First: "Ugh, ugh, these names! Why couldn't it be Smith or Jones!"Second: "You people aren't going to be breaking a lot of plates around here, are you?"
View ArticleOne more way of looking at Inception
Thank you Will Ferrell, your annual festival of inverted macho bellowing has done its work, and America is waking from the fever dream of actually thinking that Inception was a good movie. Sure, it had...
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