By Mary on Jun 24, 2009 in approved, internet, lists, reading, the meaning of christmas | 1 Comment
Item! Carrie Tryharder is running a sweet summer contest, and you have until Friday, July 3 to enter.
Details are as follows:
The task: Turn this spam headline into something entertaining: Police end funereal striptease acts.
The format: Short story, comic, photo essay, pop tune, whatever, as long as it is bloggable
The prize: A box of awesome [...]
By Mary on Jun 12, 2009 in cheap distraction, reading | 0 Comments
Front page of the hometown paper today.
By Mary on May 5, 2009 in killer trees?!, notes from the trenches, reading | 3 Comments
This sentence was just a lose-lose situation from the outset, comma-wise.
Via the local paper, obvs.
By Mary on Apr 24, 2009 in approved, cheap distraction, reading | 5 Comments
I would read that book again and again and again and again.
By Mary on Apr 9, 2009 in politricks, reading, ugh | 0 Comments
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 [...]
By Mary on Mar 18, 2009 in approved, hail hail, reading | 0 Comments
We start with guilt, because I had intentions of taking these things I’m about to tell you and polishing them into professional shapes and sending them into the world through a proper conduit, a gate with a keeper, a lit blog at least. I intended to pitch this story over the walls of my nut [...]
By Mary on Mar 5, 2009 in hail hail, reading | 0 Comments
I saw this headline:
Tobias Wolff Wins $20,000 Story Prize
and then this video screencap:
And my first thought was 1. Included in this amazing $20,000 prize was the privilege of sitting on stage with John Darnielle! My second thought was 2. Or maybe sitting on stage with John Darnielle WAS the prize! Valued at $20,000! Third thought, [...]
By Mary on Mar 4, 2009 in lists, reading | 0 Comments
YOU Or the Invention of Memory by Jonathan Baumbach and via Lauren Cerand’s brilliant New You Project
Contemporary Economists in Perspective, Vol. 1 Part B, Henry Spiegel and Warren Samuels, eds.
Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld (FINALLY)
Captain Freedom by the aforementioned G. Xavier Robillard (with whom I conducted an interview, here)
The Solzhenitsyn Reader: New and Essential Writings, 1947-2005
The [...]