As I’ve mentioned before, Liam’s best friend/alter ego is a small stuffed penguin named Junior. The stuffed penguin spouts all the opinons and sassiness Liam would like to say but knows he probably shouldn’t, and…
Date Archives October 2011
The naysayer
If you want to read another glowing review about the majesty and mystery of Craig Thompson’s much-awaited, much-ballyhooed new graphic novel Habibi, you should probably just skip this one. Before I get too far in…
Because you asked for it: Top 10 reasons Pacey is better than Dawson
A long time ago, I used to read my web stats religiously. But then I got bored because all anyone seemed to be searching for were various ways to watch a tall woman have sex…
October 25
Today is my nephew Maxwell’s birthday. He’s 13 now, and navigating that prickly, hormone-filled line known as adolescence. He’s become the kind of kid who loves Sasquatch, playing Minecraft, Internet memes, and quoting Monty Python….
Do you remember this book? It was about a thesaurus
Google has failed me. And nobody I’ve asked seems to remember this book that I swear I read sometime in elementary school. So I’m turning to you, the intelligent and devastatingly charming people of the…
This could be a cool one, or judging books by their covers
Yesterday The Tibbles invaded Supergenius HQ. It’s MEA and there’s no school for most of the week. As I rushed through the work I had to do as quickly as possible they: ate donut holes…
A conversation about my hair
“Did you start taking vitamins or change vitamins or something?” Jenny, my beloved hair cutting waif asked. “Uh, no, why?” I asked as she chopped at my hair with something that looked like pinking shears….
If this were 1986 Wild Flag would be Glass Tiger, because that’s how much I love them
Guess what? I’m not dead inside. For a long time I suspected that I might be. See, rock & roll had lost it’s allure. It had been so long since I’d really fallen in love…
The snooze
A few weeks ago I was having a discussion with Christa where I posited that big New York Publishers like books about New York where characters just wander around in their New Yorkness being all…