I’ve spent most of my waking hours the past week or so working. I’m all working working all the time with the working and it makes me boring. No, that’s the not true. I’ve got…
Browsing Category Writing
I’m bringing strumpet back, all those other philanderers don’t know how to act
Earlier this morning while I was working on a review of The Ask (it’ll be on MN Reads tomorrow), I looked up the word philandering. I was doing it more to make sure I was…
Well, we have that in common & a fondness for lugubrious
I am in love with Slate’s list of words David Foster Wallace circled in his dictionary. Circling words would be something I’d do if I still used an old fashioned dictionary. I have a lovely,…
Literary Salon II minus the electric boogaloo
Friday night my friend, Hypster Mom, hosted a sort of literary salon featuring J.C. Hallman author of many things, most recently the short story collection The Hospital for Bad Poets. Before he read a story…
Days of Crank & Crabbiness
Monday I fell into some January funk and it took a long time to get climb out of it (when you have adult-onset ADD two days is a very long time). The funk yesterday was…
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 be extra vitriol in tonight’s rant when normally there would just be the regular amount…