Warning: Cusswords. I’d never heard of Uncyclopedia before. Pity. WALLACE: When we announced that you were going to be on “Fox News Sunday,” I got a lot of e-mail from viewers. We all agreed that you are a dirty scumbag, but let’s be reasonable about this. Most of the veiwers wanted me to ask you: […]
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Home with Ray, who’s down with a sinus infection. She took two naps yesterday. Dude. Anyway, the word of the day: prelapsarian (pree-lap-SAYR-ee-uhn) adjective Relating to any innocent or carefree period in the past. [From Latin pre- (before) + lapsus (fall). The term refers to the periodin the Garden of Eden before Adam and Eve
Brian Jaques (rhymes with rakes) signed copies of Voyage of Slaves at the south Borders in Colorado Springs yesterday, and I happened to be there. First of all, let me give the disclaimer: I haven’t read any of his books. I picked up Redwall yesterday and read a few chapters, but I haven’t made any
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The Secret Life of Bees, by Sue Monk Kidd I’m sure pretty nearly everybody who’s going to read this book has already read it, but I had some thoughts I wanted to write down anyway. Spoilers ahead, for those who mind. This is a book about the South during the Civil Rights Movement; a white
Ray made her first real whistle last night. Ecstatic am I.
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This comes from my brother Matt, a graphic designer and doer of all things newspapery.
My minimum required daily allowance of delight was met today upon finding out that Lee’s boss (who lives in an apartment) has a pet duck. “Almost as big as a goose,” says one source.
Name five books, music CDs, or movies, if any, that would you rather buy someone a copy of rather than loan out your last copy. Yours truly: Annotated Alice, Lewis/Tenniel/GardnerCollected Fictions, Jorge Luis BorgesFLCL (anime)Master Li and Number Ten Ox Novels, Barry HughartThe Sandman series …and I would be pretty itchy about any Tom Waits
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[Spoilers below.] Agatha Christie writes, in At Bertram’s Hotel: There had, of course, been many other hotels on the model of Bertram’s. Some still existed, but nearly all had felt the wind of change. They had necessarily to modernize themselves, to cater for a different clientele. Bertram’s, too, had had to change, but it had
