Listmania!
December 10, 2007
Filed in: The Home Front, The Way We Live Now
1). Like every other publication this time of year, the New York Times is full of lists (stories, as T and I like to say, that write themselves, leaving busy reporters free to shop and cook and decorate like the rest of us).
I have to confess, my heart was in my mouth when I saw The 53 Places...
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Asshead in Alaska
November 27, 2007
Filed in: Alaska, The Middle Ages
Do you have a wild and crazy friend from college? Someone who was way, way naughtier than you were (however bad that may or may not have been)? Someone with or from whom you were almost infected, arrested, addicted, ejected, indicted or all of the above?
Me too. Aren’t they great? For me, those...
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Monkey in the middle
November 18, 2007
Filed in: The Way We Live Now
Know how sometimes you’re blinded to your own bad habits until you see them reflected in someone else?
How, say, you’ll be driving somewhere with your teenaged son sitting next to you chewing up the inside of his cheek till it bleeds, and you’ll go, oh God, I know where he got that from? Or at...
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Getting/Spending/Laying Waste
October 26, 2007
Filed in: The Home Front, The Middle Ages
I loathe when people tell you how busy they are. I’m like, save it, Sistah, we’re all busy, it’s a busy world out there.
Having said that, it’s been a rough patch of busy-ness here in Swellville, and not the we-sure-are-living-full-lives kind, more the slog-till-you-drop kind.
Which is maybe...
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My Man-Crush Done Good
October 12, 2007
Filed in: The Way We Live Now
Call me an out-of-touch, over-the-hill, bleeding-heart, tree-hugging liberal, but I love me some Al Gore and always have, even way back before his VP gig. He’s like Clinton without the handsiness. Actually, he’s what a lot of us thought Clinton was.
I know he’s a little bit of a sanctimonious...
