Oct
04
2008
One of the good things about having a famous brother is you get free cookies when he does a book-signing, and in the Q&A session you get to ask him probing questions that he has no choice but to answer. Did you know there are people whose job it is to drive visiting writers around [...]
Oct
04
2008
I had just remodeled my living room when lava started seeping in through the base of the front wall. Within seconds a grey, steaming, bubbling skin had covered the floor leaving only tiny bare patches of oak. Suddenly I realized: Damn, I shouldn’t have turned on that lava machine!, which I guess was a feature [...]
Oct
03
2008
Sorry to do this to you, but there’s just too much amazing political stuff whizzing around out there for me to let it all fade into my memory. There’s the exceptional Don’t Vote video that Lulu forwarded me (which Sarah Silverman hopes will go viral, “rampant… like herpes— but for… positive”) and another that Lulu [...]