The other day I boasted to the Internet about how I spelled perpetuity correctly on the first try. When you live alone and don’t leave the house much you boast about all kinds of minor…
Date Archives January 2011
Jonathan Franzen, I’m not sure I get it
There’s something a little lonely and alienating about being on the opposite side of popular public opinion. In this case, I’m talking being one of the few people who did not fall head-over-heels in love…
Who’s the bigger bitch Lucille or Ruby?
This is one of those pop culture questions that doesn’t get nearly the amount of debate it deserves. I am, of course, talking about the women featured in Kenny Rogers’ very fine songs “Lucille” and…
30 minutes
Everyone has a time threshold by which to judge the emergency-ness/bad news factor of a phone call. The older you get the earlier that time gets. For instance, if someone were to call you at…
Don’t call me Blogger
For ten years I’ve bristled at being called a blogger. It’s an awful word. It looks like booger, sounds like blobber, and has an air of artificiality and preciousness that most made-up words have (and…
A giant man broke my heart
As a 6’5″ woman, I am drawn to stories about the incredibly tall, or Giants as they are called. It’s the same thing that drew me to Beverly Cleary’s Beezus when I was a child,…