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One-man book club: Can we reschedule?
Every member of the one-man book club has to review tonight’s Oscar broadcast on a serious deadline. We’ll reconvene asap.
Read MoreSNL Homowatch: 3/6 (Zach Galifianakis)
For years I’ve been vaguely (in a teensy way) bothered by Saturday Night Live’s complete dependence on sketches that make fun of being gay. I don’t know exactly why. I’ve written a little about this before — “enlightened homophobia,” which is probably socially harmless (as is most televsion, really) but nevertheless irritates me. In the…
Read MoreOne-man book club: Bring out your dead
It’s one-man book club week here in Tonsil-land, where I say all the things I would say if I was in a book club (and the selections were all up to me). Monday and Tuesday I blogged about seven books. But today is the dark-interlude portion of the one-man book club meeting, where a moment…
Read MoreOne-man book club, continued: Pyschos, romances, Anne Frank, Nick Hornby, my wine, and the Welches’ juice
We continue today with More Things I Would Have Said if I Was Actually in a Book Club (and If The Club Chose Books That Were Exactly the Books I Want to Read) … By now I’d be a little drunk on the very excellent wine we serve at my book club. It appears I’m…
Read MoreOne-man book club: Here to exhaust you
Nothing helps one grieve for the demise of one’s own sad little book than … reading other people’s books! And knowing, as you read them, that every single one of these books may well nearly have killed its author and also knowing that somehow, someway every single one of these books is also someone’s letdown.…
Read MoreDigging out? I vote for staying put
On our way to our Valentine’s Day treat, Michael and I found the car. I think we’ll leave it where it is until the sun gives us a little assist. We’ve got a case of the Februarys.
Read MoreA VD transmission from the Roller universe
They’re infrequent (even more infrequent than these blog posts), but an e-mail came today from Donald Roller Wilson, with a strange (of course) Valentine’s Day wish. And a new Naughty Betty painting! It’s called “It Would Become the Third Disastrous Attempt for Naughty Betty to Ratify Her Bat Mitzvah.” Many of you have asked what…
Read MoreHere’s to you, New Orleans
State of the real union
Not the Obama speech, but the Apple iPad unveiling. That’s your state of the union. Rapt worship of the new gizmo, and, naturally, it’s not just another thing to pay for and plug in and carry around and fuss over, it’s salvation. It seems like I have 100 clear thoughts a day about the renaissance…
Read MoreChutes and ladders leaving me where I begun / Like Jo-Jo-Joan Didion
I’m back. It’s been more than a month, I know, and I hope I can get people to come visit the Tonsil blog again. Last I left you, I was Tinsel-ed out (and so you were you) and Michael and I made a getaway to California for the (un-)holidays. I’m getting some thoughts together about…
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