excuse me, but my vagina is getting in the way of my writing
So, last night, as part of the Brooklyn Book Festival, which I hope you’ll all go to today if you’re in the area, I went to a Literary Event and got a little hot under the collar. Or, should I say,...
View Articleso many crazies with short, short memories
No publishing news today. Just political rants. But can I say t-minus one day until New Moon??? Okay, so I hate to give Ann Coulter any extra ink because I’m pretty much convinced that her insanely...
View Articleresolutions, and free books!
Part of my cultural heritage as a Jew demands that I spend at least part of the Christmas season going to the movies. Having young children gets in the way of this mandate, but I did manage to sneak...
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the one in which i tenuously use earth day as a reason to give away books
So, it’s Earth Day. Woop-dee-dooh. In times as perilous as these, even a boring government report from the Project on Climate Science* is sounding the alarm: The report, a draft of the Fifth U.S....
View Articleon being an asshole—or not
I’m feeling a little bit cranky. About so many things. And the fact that I have a double ear infection and seem to have a Death Star-like tractor beam for every contagion within a 10-mile radius is...
View ArticleGabby, Obama, L.K. and MLK
It’s been more than a week since the shootings in Tucson that killed six people, and miraculously didn’t kill Gabrielle Giffords. It’s been been five days since author L.K. Madigan announced some hard...
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bits of silly
I have a new child. She arrived over the weekend after I sent Willa to her room for a time out. When I went to get her out of time out, I discovered that Willa was gone and in her place was Kyra. Kyra...
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battle cry for the mr. saxons!
So, I finally watched that documentary Waiting for Superman, you know the one that was much buzzed about last year, the one that basically says that public education is going to hell in a hand basket?...
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what we talk about when we talk about the weather
Most of you don’t live with me. Which is probably a good thing. You might think I spend my days talking about Adam or Mia or the next batch of characters—and I do talk a fair bit about them, which...
View ArticleFirst time, zombie apocalypse, grandma coercion
So many delightful pro-Obama videos, including this one from Joss Whedon (my hero): [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TiXUF9xbTo[/youtube] And this one from Lena Dunham (who I’d call my hero...
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