“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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About fifteen years ago, my parents split up. They did not divorce and I’ve never really asked why. About a decade ago my dad moved in with a woman I think of as my stepmother.
My …
Welcome, new/temporary readers coming in from Kottke.org. (And any other new readers, of course.) Happy to have you, and hear your comments. New readers and longtime companions, don’t forget to have a …
I moved, I went to California for a week, and I’ve only just now started digging my way out from under a pile of season finales. And I have some questions. Answer them for me, …
…Bookfest!
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I asked a question on Ask Metafilter when it stumped people, one of your readers suggested I send a note to you.I’m looking for a book of short-story mysteries that I read sometime back in …
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Help me.Please.I need to know what to do about my sister.I’m scared for her, and in the meantime, she’s driving me nuts.
The background:she’s in her mid-twenties; she’s always had a conflicted relationship with my mother …
The season-finale 90210 recap for SOAPnet:
Weird episode — too much time wasted on the Brenda dream sequence, the stoned Wilsons, and Jen’s wooden rendition of “scheming.” Good acting in the Adrianna subplot didn’t make up …
FYI: Wednesday Vines will return next week. I happened to have cross-country flights on each of the last two Wednesdays, and forgot to mention it here, but the service interruption is a temporary one. …
Come celebrate the first ever Team SupersnackAIDS Nap!
AIDS Nap 2009 was conceived during previous AIDSWalk outings, whenmany Supersnackers looked around at the beautiful May day and opined that, whilewalking 6 miles in Central Park was …
My latest 90210 recap at SOAPnet:
Silver certainly won’t win again next year, since she uses the occasion to deliver a speech about how she’s had a hard year and she doesn’t know who she is …
They’re all dead.But in a story, which is a kind of dreaming, the dead sometimes smile and sit up and return to the world.
When I open a book and begin to read, and I have …