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Lolling
I was trying to figure out why I haven’t blogged in so long (erm, THREE MONTHS) other than the usual excuses, most of them having to do with my undying admiration for what Nancy Nall manages to pull off nearly every weekday morning of the year — while also working her fingers to the bone…
Read MoreAnother travel
Will you indulge me? I need to bid a sorrowful goodbye to my good friend, Barbara Kerr Page, 62, who died Wednesday morning, April 27, 2011, after a gallant struggle with kidney failure and other health issues. She was preceded in death by The Albuquerque Tribune, which died in February 2008 after its own gallant…
Read MoreOne-Man Book Club: My pals are writing books faster than I can GIVE YOU A FREE COPY!
Book luvvers, the One-Man Book Club has some friends and they have been — I believe the term busy as shit applies here, writing some very good books. I’ve got my own copies and if you’re lucky I’m going to give you yours. But really what I want you to do is go out an’…
Read MoreOne-Man Book Club: Now where were we?
(“Arlo & Janis“: Not only is it America’s most marital-relations-positive — and cat-positive, and power-walk positive — comic strip, it also honors old, analog media every now and again. I never miss a day of “A&J” — it’s the only comic strip I read.) All right, Tonsilites, at last, another session of the One-Man Book…
Read MoreThe work
If my book-related blog “to-do” list had anything to do with a public library, I would owe some serious overdue fines by now. The One-Man Book Club languishes; since the last post, none of the members are speaking to one another and we have about a half-dozen books that have gone un-discussed. The neglect has…
Read MoreZe foreign films, and ze people who zee them
So, Judy talked me into going to ALL FIVE foreign films that are up for an Oscar this year and I was happy to go. They were shown through a 3-day package deal at the National Geographic building — $45, including a reception each day. What a wonderful slog that was — we started on…
Read MoreDefrosted from the archives
For all y’all who’ve spent a lot of this week snowed in … Washington was spared (this time) but for some reason I was having vague memories about this piece, from February 2003, and I wanted to go back and make sure I wasn’t imagining that I actually wrote it. I remember it was inspired…
Read MoreHe has a pulse (and a booty)
Actual proof that I still exist: National Journal‘s Hotline came knocking the other day, with lighthearted questions for their Friday Feature Q&A. The what? The hunh? National Journal is a D.C. publication that is so essential to the Beltway power/media structure that it costs, like, hundreds (thousands?) of dollars to subscribe. Otherwise I would link…
Read MoreA Very Roller Christmas
Here’s a painting from 1987 that artist Donald Roller Wilson is apparently putting up for sale, probably at a price only Carrie Fisher could afford. It’s Brenda’s house. You want it, you want it… The caption, as always, makes it even better: BRENDA’S HOUSE AT BRENDA’S NUT FARM…LOCATED IN THE STATE OF MIND…BEFORE THE STATE…
Read MoreDon’t like Christmas? Uh, then “forget” youuu
I think Crudbump’s inspiring little anti-carol kinda says it all about America, Christmas, religion, retail. If you don’t like Christmas, then there’s something wrong with you and you deserve a Scrooge slap — that’s our overriding cultural message. But also: just open your mind, let it happen, look at it real close, have a laugh,…
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