Friday night my friend, Hypster Mom, hosted a sort of literary salon featuring J.C. Hallman author of many things, most…
Date Archives January 2010
Book review, a dialog
Laura van den Berg writes beautifully. Her sentences and paragraphs feel like gauzy, ethereal dreams. It’s the kind of writing…
Days of Crank & Crabbiness
Monday I fell into some January funk and it took a long time to get climb out of it (when…
The validity of eye witness accounts
Yesterday I rode to Rock & Roll Bookclub with Jaycie, Ben, and Max. I’m not sure how we got on…
On the awesomeness of superheroes
“I think they take a bath with their suits on, right Aunt Jodi?” Liam is playing Lego Batman on the…
Two resolutions: One for me & one for the Internet
I’m a little cranky because I just read an awful graphic novel and bad books make me angry. There might…
Leno v. Conan is more like Baby Boomers v. GenX
This is the obligatory I know there are more important things going on in the world right now statement required…
Way back in aught-six
It’s 11:16 and I’m just finishing up work for the day. This is not a complaint. I just want to…
Brought to you by my discovery of the first season of She-Ra on hulu
The worst part of growing up in suburban Minneapolis in the 80s was the ridiculous standard of beauty. Sure we…
Like an unfunny episode of That 70s Show
When I finished reading all 368 pages of Charles Burns’ graphic novel Black Hole the first thing I thought was,…