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Madagascar. Did not suck. And did not wuss out on the question, “What do you do when you have a carnivore and an herbavore stuck on a desert island?” The more kids’ movies that don’t suck, the better.

Ray. I’m going to make this brief, because I’ve told the story and told it: My daughter learned how to escape the apartment. She ended up at the front office of our apartment complex, naked except for her jacket and the keys to the apartment. We cut off her escape route using chicken wire. She

Beginnings. I’m having problems coming up with a good beginning. I’m going to have to think it out for a while. Note that beginnings are often a combination of things. Opening Stasis: Shows things as they are before something significant changes. (As common as boy-meets-girl. LOTR. The Hobbit. Star Wars. If the characters are happy

Insight. Insight is when the obvious becomes the really obvious.

Song. I don’t know the name of the song. I have no idea what any of the lyrics are. The part that got stuck in my head was the piano in the beginning, a mountain-stream waterfall of piano. There’s a backbeat in there somewhere. The singer sounds like someone I should know, but not really.

David Sedaris: “My father has always placed a great deal of importance on his daughters’ physical beauty. It is, to him, their greatest asset, and he monitors their appearance with the intensity of a pimp. What can I say? He was born a long time ago and is convinced that marriage is a woman’s only

Heh. From Jackie: “She has more issues that Mad magazine.” I am easily amused.

No. Yes. Lee started a blog. It’s called Thoughtful Gibberish.

The Dark Tower. I finished reading Stephen King’s Dark Tower series on the way back from South Dakota. He’s said he’s going to retire, at least from writing fiction, and now I understand. Maybe he won’t be able to do it this time, but I can hope for him. I love talking to Lee about

Trip. We drove back to South Dakota last week to see my brother Matt graduate from college. We stopped in Vermillion on the way to Sioux Falls and tried to eat lunch at Marge’s, but she’s dead. It sounds like she must have died just after the last time we ate there. The world’s best