I love the David Bowie half-stripe across the eyes that blends into the Death curlycue.

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and here's the official trailer:

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In addition to my incessant guzzling of pumpkin flavored eggnog mixed with whiskey, I also can't stop watching the trailer and other videos online for this awesome musical: weretheworldminefilm.com

Why rebuke you him that loves you so?

So for some reason, ever since I moved away from Athens, I have been unable to meet up with Katie within anything remotely like a reasonable amount of time. I’m always at least an hour late, and, again, I under-estimated the amount of time I would need when I drove to Tallahassee for WillFest 07 in mid-October of … well… 07 ( Read more... )

The local indie bookstore is in a bit of a financial crunch. The donation campaign they're promoting has gotten quite a bit of national press and exposure, but just in case you hadn't heard:

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Fatherly wisdom, which normally centers around windshield wiper fluid, recently included a rather insulting gem ( Read more... )

If there's anything that can make me post an entry, it's reading about the lineup at this year's Decatur Book Festival.

-- Jack Pendarvis, author of Our Bodies are Changing

-- ZZ Packer!

-- Robert Olen Butler

-- an interpretive dance of Shirley Jackson's famous short story "The Lottery."

"I've got uh... a lot of pots on the boil? A lot of burners on the stove? Um... I've got a lot of crawfish in my pot! Or some other mixed metaphor ( Read more... )

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So yay! I have a David Bowie shirt and made a poor video about it. I seem to be the most taken with the shirt, but that's as it should be ( Read more... )

I'm taking a cue from Dmitri Nabokov: if it turns out that Dad's written a novel that he doesn't want published even after he's dead, screw him! I'm sick of dead people pushing me around.

Will is saving an extra chair for Elijah.

Also, I wish I were Meg Cabot so I could celebrate Passover at Judy Blume's house! Oh and so I would be a prolific author. But yeah. Passover at Judy Blume's!

Happy Passover, everyone!