One of our fellow Obama for SC volunteers, Allison Lane of Baltimore, MD, popped up on NPR this morning as an Obama canvasser at the old Reading Terminal in Philly. Listen to her mad canvassing skills and interview (4:19 – 4:48), who notes that Obama’s support can’t be about race because “we’re only, what, 12% [...]
What do you do when you think you know someone, but you’re just not sure? According to Rachel, you just come out and ask: “You know, you really remind me of this person I once played soccer with in 1989 in Bumblepuck, MN. You wouldn’t happen to be that person, would you?”
Fair ’nuff. But what [...]
My sister has a new blog about the sartorial travails of the not-talls in an expanding world. Now, women’s shopping is just plain harder for women than men, but I do think the difficulty of finding clothes when you’re short cuts across gender. Consider how many “Big and Tall” stores dot the strip malls of [...]
Matthew Pearl’s The Poe Shadow hit the stores today — picked up my copy at the local Barnes & Noble. With all the hoopla over The Da Vinci Code, I’m sure it won’t hurt Matt’s sales to have an endorsement from Dan Brown on the back cover. With all due respect to The Dante Club, [...]
Tome has unleashed his first Podcast. The subject, I think, is “Sound check.” Oh, and ukelele.
What’s a podcast?
Coming soon: the Nan Show.
Meanwhile… HAPPY BERFDAY TOE!
Growing up as I did in nerdish suburbia, Monty Python — and
specifically, Monty Python and the Holy Grail — was the cornerstone of
our little group’s existence. We used to watch our version of the film
to the point where we even had the commercials (yes, our copy was taped
off TV) memorized and iconized. Fifteen years later, [...]
Yet Another Blog: xRoommates is the new refuge for my college roommates (including Argus).
Do I really need to write for 4 blogs???
I’m happy to see several blogs that I read regularly mentioned in this article, including Maud Newton and Old Hag. Also, I’ve worked a bit with Kate Lee in the past (isn’t “currently a twenty-seven-year-old assistant” a strange place in that sentence for her age?). Obviously there are some authors of big books who also have [...]
Okay, I watch too much television. In doing so, I watch too many commercials. They’re almost all horrible and some even worse. The times when “event shows” used to stimulate great commercials is over (we can only cling to nostalgic memories of the Bud Bowl). Since it’s presumably the same marketing teams and advertising agencies [...]
Our friends Theresa and Adam had us over for a lovely Seder at
Theresa’s apartment in Belmont. It was significantly… quieter… than
the Passover we usually attend at the Spiegelmans on Long Island. In
one respect, though, it was similar — all four of us were reading from four
different versions of the Haggadah. Passover at the Spiegelmans usually
involves [...]
