I’d like to say now that I don’t have a DVR I have to watch commercials all the time now. I’d like to say that, but it’s a lie. I watched commercials even when I…
Date Archives September 2011
The autumn of our Jackson Browneyness
Here’s the thing. I love The Current, that’s no secret. Jill & Steve in the morning, Barb Abney, St. Mary Lucia of Airwaves. I love it all. So I’m not blaming the radio station for…
Totally swerval
Now there is competition for my heart. Before, Ramona Flowers was the queen of all graphic novel heroines as far as my heart was concerned. Nobody came close to Ramona. Not the ass-kicking used-to-be fairy…
The ballad of Junior & Punkinhead
Liam’s BFF is a tiny, stuffed penguin Pillow Pet named Junior. He loves Junior more than he loves most everyone he knows, especially me. Yesterday after I had the audacity to make Liam help me…
A few things I need to get off my chest: Not a rant
I spend all my time lately thinking about The Family Fang, wishing I was reading The Family Fang, or reading The Family Fang. In the spare minutes I don’t spend in Fangland, I’m thinking about…
Don’t let the cover scare you
Before I started reading Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs, I took off the book jacket and placed it on the coffee table. I didn’t want that image anywhere near my bedroom,…