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Sunday, July 18th, 2010
In this week's New Yorker, Nora Ephron hilariously lampoons the 1st three of maybe four books in Stieg Larsson's Millennium series.
If you haven't read the books but plan to (ahem, Husband), you probably shouldn't click the link and read the whole piece. It won't make much sense but it might ...
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Wednesday, April 14th, 2010
I'm a bit bored by the idea of Abraham Lincoln as a vampire hunter, whether in a book or a movie. Not because I'm tired of horror mash-ups - although I probably am - but because I think Mike Mignola's Lincoln does such a bang-up job fighting evil in ...
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Monday, May 4th, 2009
Yesterday Husband and I went to Baltimore for lunch and an excursion to a favorite indie bookstore,Atomic Books. The occasion for our visit was a stop on the latest Found Magazine tour, the Denim and Diamonds Tour. We could have just waited til evening and gone to the evening appearance ...
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Monday, March 2nd, 2009
West's previous failed proposals include requiring the high school band to perform the tuneless flute songs of the blind idiot god Azathoth and offering art students instruction in the carving of morbid and obscene fetishes from otherworldly media.
Several parents attending the meeting were not impressed by West's outburst.
"Last month, he ...
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Monday, March 2nd, 2009
Today is the 105th anniversary of the birth of Dr Seuss. Celebrate accordingly.
(google is)
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Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009
Don't know why this got stuck in the drafts file - maybe I was going to obsess over the introduction to the quotation for a while?
I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch and with a cigarette ...
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Saturday, November 29th, 2008
I'm following Erqsome's book meme. When I copied & pasted the list I almost left her commentary because I so agreed with her assessments. I think we've bonded in the past over our mutual dislike of Catcher in the Rye and Wuthering Heights, but I also think there was bourbon ...
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Friday, November 7th, 2008
Ooops. In all the election-posting, I forgot to post some of my Halloween-oriented posts, so here's another one since Halloween has been extended one more weekend in my house.
Eminent Dracula historian, Professor Elizabeth Miller maintains Dracula's Homepage, which contains more information on Stoker's text than you may have ever thought ...
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Saturday, November 1st, 2008
I had this delusion I was just going to spend most of the day vegetating and alternating between reading Joe Hill's 20th Century Ghosts and watching movies. Didn't quite work out, although I did manage to combine a run and The Devil Bat (1941) - one of the few times ...
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Saturday, September 27th, 2008
I don't think I should go spread pestilence at the National Book Festival, especially since I barely have the energy to stand up. I wanted to go and at least hear Tony Horwitz. Oh well, another time. Right now I need to go bleach out my brain because someone's twisted ...
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