…and how did this song (requires iTunes) end up on my iPod? Because I am completely hooked on it. And I have no idea where it came from.
Entries from June 2007
June 28, 2007
Shameless whore
I would be referring to my friend Bob above, certainly not myself. He’s in this contest. To be honest, I haven’t been paying all that much attention, but he just asked me to pimp him out (do I get a percentage of the profits, Bob?) and I’m nothing if not accommodating (yeah, riiiiight). Anyway, if [...]
June 26, 2007
I think I caught a meme
It sounds a bit like something that would make you stay in bed and drink tea, doesn’t it? Regardless, Jeff tagged me for a meme, and how can I resist someone with such a perfect first name?
So without further ado, here are eight random things about me:
I took piano lessons as a child for two [...]
June 22, 2007
Jesus who?
Schulman, who’s currently working on an oral history of ACT-UP, remembered that she’d never heard the name Jesus Christ until one day in her schoolyard. “I ran home and asked my grandmother ‘Who is Jesus Christ?’ and my grandmother said, “Well, there was this girl named Mary who got in trouble and made up this [...]
June 18, 2007
“4 dead, but who shot whom?”
That was a headline on the front page of today’s Post-Dispatch. I had to wonder, in the face of this tragedy, was I the only one who started humming, “At the Copa, Copacabana….”?
(I see that the headline was tweaked slightly for the online version, however. I pity the copy editor who was asleep at the [...]
June 15, 2007
Dialogue from a playground swingset
Me: Does this count as cardio?
Ryan: Well, I’m counting it. My arms are killing me! But it’s too bad these are so close to the ground; you can’t use your legs.
Me: Yes, but holding your legs up so they don’t drag activates the abdominal muscles.
Ryan: People are paying 70 bucks a month to go to [...]
June 11, 2007
Novel word count
And just because I haven’t kept you posted lately:
NOVEL WORD COUNT: 53,469
Today, however, I am polishing (although that may be too refined a word for it—maybe more like sanding) a story for a contest. I have three stories that are sitting around doing no good because they’re not back out building up a tolerance for [...]
June 10, 2007
Dialogue after a dance recital
Jeff: And how about that girl singing the national anthem?
Plus One: Oh, she sounded like a cross between Mariah Carey… and a fax machine.
(It’s not mean if it’s true.)
June 8, 2007
Paws and Reflect news
Yes, more about that book. It was so successful in hardback, apparently, that a paperback edition is coming out in November. So if you haven’t gotten a copy, you’ll have another chance.
And if you happen to live in St. Louis (or even if you don’t), the editors of the book will be on Animal Tails [...]
