Eat, Sleep, Ride: How I Braved Bears, Badlands and Big Breakfasts in My Quest to Cycle the Tour Divide:

On closer inspection the town consisted of no more than a crossroads, the branches of which were populated by half a dozen motels, a couple of diners, a post office and two gas stations with convenience stores attached. And JR's Taxidermy ( Read more... )

Ghost Trails: Journeys through a lifetime by Jill Homer:

We crossed the last city street and entered the campground at the end of town. All around us, generators hummed amid the yellow outdoor lights and lighted windows of motorhomes and trailers. My and Geoff's campsite was quiet and dark -- just a small tent and two bicycles leaning against ( Read more... )

#94: Tales from the Sexual Underground by Rick R. Reed:I wanted to write about people who were not just out, but out there, people who lived their sexual lives in ways most of us could only imagine…and for whom the flavor vanilla had absolutely no appeal. I interviewed porn stars, prostitutes, self-proclaimed sex pigs, and delved into bizarre ( Read more... )

# 92: Miami Vice (TV Milestones series) by Stephen Sanders:Traumatized and transformed, Crockett appears on the scene in season five bearing significant psychological wounds because he has been deprived of the memories out of which his identity as Crockett is formed.
Synopsis:Noir-themed semi-academic wank on Miami Vice.

( And he does the unthinkable. )

#89: Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated by Alison Arngrim:In August and September one hundred-plus degrees was a normal daytime temperature for Simi Valley. And I was wearing a wig...and a full-length dress with a five-layer petticoat...and tights and boots. I discovered that sometimes, just ( Read more... )

# 77: The Ice Cave: A Woman's Adventures from the Mojave to the Antarctic - Lucy Jane Bledsoe:The crew here at South Pole Station has a somewhat tense relationship with the handful of expeditions that come through each year. There are no spare beds and little extra food. Usually the United States Antarctic Program makes them stay in their own tents ( Read more... )

# 76: Drinking: A Love Story by Caroline Knapp:
It happened this way: I fell in love and then, because the love was ruining everything I cared about, I had to fall out.

This didn't happen easily, or simply, but if I had to pinpoint it, I'd say the relationship started to fall apart the night I nearly killed my oldest friend's two daughters.

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#75: Service Included: Four-Star Secrets of an Eavesdropping Waiter by Phoebe Damrosch:The gentleman on table twenty-three plans to propose and has arranged for us to deliver a Faberge egg at the end of their meal. Proposals are nerve-racking for everyone involved. While terrified lovers contemplate eternity in sickness, poverty, death, or worse, ( Read more... )

#67: Love, West Hollywood edited by Chris Freeman and James J. Berg:I'm a white girl from New England, with a snooty college education that prepared me to teach English classes to other uptight Boston kids. To be discussing rumors of pubic lice in a dingy Sunset Boulevard motel, is not where I expected my life to take me ( Read more... )

# 63: Role Models by John Waters:Rigid enjoyment of planning can get you high. Militant time management will enable you to ignore how maladjusted you would be if you had the time to notice it in the first place. Discipline is not anal compulsion; it's a lifestyle that breeds power. The only insult I've ever received in my adult life was when ( Read more... )