By Mary on Feb 28, 2009 in tips | 1 Comment
If you’re starting to feel the cold gnaw of inadequacy w/r/t a fresh-faced young thing who has published a noteworthy book at a very tender age, and who seems to have a nice wardrobe and attractive hair and dazzling marketing to boot, STOP.
PERFORM SOME BASIC INTERNET RESEARCH.
Whether it is rational or not, you will feel [...]
By Mary on Feb 26, 2009 in notes from the trenches | 2 Comments
If you are the kind of person who normally drinks 4+ cups mugs of coffee per day, and then you cut back to 1 cup mug of coffee per day for health reasons, and then after a couple of months you decide to consume 2 GIANT OVERSIZED MUGS of coffee one afternoon when you’re sleepy, [...]
By Mary on Feb 25, 2009 in a worthy ponder | 2 Comments
I’ve had it three times in the past six years. Irregular intervals.
No, no reason, really. Just one of those little statistics I have filed in the back of my mind.
By Mary on Feb 24, 2009 in Indy recap | 0 Comments
You’re Invited to Bobby Jindal’s Super Sweet Sixteen!
Will You Be Watching Barack Obama’s Speech With a Red Pen?
Something Something Citigroup Nationalization Something! Something Probably Bad!
There’s Really No Need to Worry About This $1.3 Trillion Deficit
John McCain Has Terrifying News for the Folks Back Home
Bad News Canadians, I Think President Obama Lied to You
Canadians Welcome Barack [...]
By Mary on Feb 23, 2009 in killer trees?! | 0 Comments
Via the brother…
By Mary on Feb 16, 2009 in cheap distraction, from the archive | 0 Comments
Here is some content I’ve licensed from my own Flickr page. Enjoy!
Someday I will lure the neighborhood children to my porch and say “Eeehhhh whippersnappers! Let me tell you! I remember a time when gas was just $3.35 a gallon!” And the neighborhood children will roll their eyes at me as they cruise away on [...]
By Mary on Feb 4, 2009 in Indy recap | 1 Comment
Dick Cheney Can’t Quit You, Fearmongering
New Executive Compensation Limits Will End Corporate Greed Forever
John McCain Promotes Bipartisan Cooperation by Ranting on the Internet
Judd Gregg Will Destroy the Commerce Department from the Inside
War With Canada Over Crack Cocaine in Obama’s Stimulus Bill?
Representation Without Taxation: Et Tu, Tom Daschle?
Barack Obama Wants You to Throw the Worst Party [...]
By Mary on Feb 3, 2009 in approved, notes from the trenches | 2 Comments
One of these days I need to sit down and write something about superheroes in literature, because I keep running into this, entirely by accident.
First I got an assignment to interview the delightful Alan Bissett (The Incredible Adam Spark), and then I was asked to interview the charming Alison McGhee (Falling Boy), and now I [...]