Archive for June, 2007
“You’re on ten here, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up, you’re on ten on your guitar. Where can you go from there? Where?”
28 June 2007The summer before Older Brother Bud’s senior year of college he was on an aircraft carrier. The summer before my senior year of college I was an intern at a children’s book publisher, reading slush submissions and emotionally fraught first novels that would never make it to publication. To say that the two of us [...]
Things I’m Not Okay With
28 June 2007Self magazine’s decision to publish an article this month in which the author not only names her hemorrhoid (”Chester,” fyi) but describes the complicated process by which he is drained and healed.
If you’re the letter writing type
27 June 2007More on this book banning I talked about here– if you’re feeling fiesty, give these people a piece of your mind re: the first amendment.
To write to the Board of Education:
District Clerk
Commack Union Free School District
P.O. Box 150
Commack, NY 11725
Let the wild rumpus start
27 June 2007MTV’s first look at Spike Jonze’s Where the Wild Things Are.
children’s book illustrators art project
26 June 2007From Schwartz & Wade:
exquisite corpses were first created by the surrealists, André Breton, Max Ernst, Man Ray, Joan Miró, Yves Tanguy and others in the 1920s. Based on an old parlor game, it was played by several people, each of whom would write a phrase on a sheet of paper, fold the paper to conceal [...]
tifaux post
25 June 2007Cristin v. NBC’s “Age Of Love”
Makes me sad that McSweeney’s is bankrupt
25 June 2007MY FATHER, AS OWNER OF HIS FANTASY BASEBALL TEAM, HAS A MEETING
WITH HIS PLAYERS TO EXPLORE THEIR CONCERNS ABOUT FRONT-OFFICE
MANAGEMENT.
ANDY PETTITTE: I never wanted to be on this team in the first place.
DAD: Well, I didn’t want you on my team, either, asshole. But I was drunk at the draft, and I thought you were [...]
somebody’s getting married
25 June 2007Our former head of sales at work used to talk about how lonely it was to have his job. “No one ever sits next to me at meetings,” he’d say, which is entirely true (it’s scary sitting next to the head honcho) and also really sad and makes me wonder how much fun it could [...]
Remainders
21 June 2007Summer YA blog tour schedule– Kirsten Miller, Cecil Castellucci, Sara Zarr, Carolyn Mackler, yay! I just finished Sara Zarr’s Story of A Girl and have so, so many good things to say about it that I’m going to have to save that for a day when I have an actual attention span.
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I recently discovered, while [...]
from the AV club
20 June 200715 Things Kurt Vonnegut said better than anyone else ever has or will.