“I wrote 63 songs this year. They’re all about Jeter.” Just kidding. The game we love, the players we hate, and more.
From Norman Mailer to Wendy Pepper — everything on film, TV, books, music, and snacks (shut up, raisins), plus the Girls’ Bike Club.
Helping public schools, winning prizes, sending a crazy lady in a tomato costume out in public.
Monologues, travelogues, fiction, and fart humor. And hens. Don’t forget the hens.
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I adored it. Not quite as much as the first one, but I don’t think I adore any book as much as I do the first one, and as I did when I finished the first one, I felt sad — that’s it? It’s over? But…but what happens next? If you haven’t read these, I urge you to; her writing is touching and funny, and her drawing is simple but evocative. She’s really great. (9/21/04)
I’ve (re-)discovered a few things over the course of the recent Days Of Rage. Some of them are great!
I found it while researching a murder (…this is a sentence I have more frequent use for than most), the true story of a neighborhood legend from my childhood. I grew up in a leafy, …
