Archive for April, 2009

The blog of laughter and forgetting »

I can still tell you how to subway from 6th Ave. and 13th St. to Clinton Hill.
I still can’t remember how to parallel park.
This time next year these things will probably be reversed.

“Sign me up for your tea party, patriots!” »

Oh, this you must watch. Here is M.Ba, all hopped up some hot Lemon Zinger, preachin’ to the U.S. of Tea:

(Via Politics in Minnesota, who has to live with her, although according to the masthead it is run by “a tiny red speck in a big blue precinct,” so maybe they are the ones who [...]

McCain Bookette »

You thought the publishing industry was in trouble? Come now. Would an industry in trouble hand a million (plus?) dollars to a 24-year-old campaign prop blogger best known for writing some captions in a children’s book about torture, and also for having bad grammar? Absolutely! I mean, no!
My point is, this is going be in [...]

And tho’ we seek far and wide / To find a fairer spot on earth »

Dirigo!

Long division »

From now on I am going to write this in my bio:
Mary Phillips-Sandy divides her time between Portland, Maine; New York City; Los Angeles; Krakow; and maritime Canada.
I have decided there is no good reason why the division of time must be limited to present time at the exclusion of past time, future time, hypothetical [...]

This is always appropriate »

Subject: Rod Stewart »

Mainers,
Jess and I went out to Philly over the weekend and started a new band called “John and Benjamin with The Shamblers” with Ben from The Shamblers and John from The Tender & Vulnerable. We recorded 15-20 songs on a dictaphone (I’ve attached one of them to this), all hits. I’ll send more later.
Warnings: [...]