I’m a large FORTY!-year-old 6’5″ woman. The word intimidating has been used to be describe me on about 381 kajillion occasions. The people who use that word have said I’m both physically and intellectually intimidating….
Date Archives 2012
The Ground Beneath Her Feet
If Salman Rushdie’s Ground Beneath Her Feet had been, oh, about 400 pages instead of 592 pages, I’d probably have loved the crap out of it. It’s got everything I love in a book: a…
I Will Dare turns 12 years old today
And on this day in the year 2000 a blog was born. It weighed in at 13 words, 0 captial letters, and 1 Replacements’ reference. Two, if you count the blog’s name. I Will Dare…
Snore Arabia
When you tell people you’re spending a majority of your summer reading Rock & Roll novels they immediately tell you to read Stone Arabia by Dana Spiotta. Because it was a Rock & Roll novel…
We interrupt your regular programming for these semi-important messages
I don’t often ask you, darling ones, readers of I Will Dare to do stuff. Well, there was that time I begged you to vote for brownies back during The Great Pie v. Brownie War…
Dispatches from Supergenius HQ where nobody got any sleep last night
If I die of spontaneous combustion or an aneurysm sometime within the next month I want you to sue the crap out of Dodge and their advertising agency. They have an asinine commercial running lately where the first line of the narration is, “Summer begs the question.”