Month: November 2008

  • Mary! Sorry, Albert, no Snuffles. :( Everyone else — friends and strangers alike — thank you so much for coming to my site and participating in my little birthday game! I had a ton of fun reading your answers and putting them into my mad libs. Yes, I wrote it, so this should be interesting.…

  • Update: Hey, folks, anyone can enter! You don’t have to be a regular reader. I was looking forward to all the random answers from all the random people. Consider it a birthday present! Entries will close sometime tomorrow afternoon so keep those comments coming! Alright, folks, today is the day! In honor of my birthday…

  • Immune system? Not so much

    As a quick follow-up to yesterday, I wanted to post something written by a friend and former resident of mine. She’s very talented. I do believe that someday soon we’ll be seeing her name on book covers. From “On dropping out — and growing up” by Sarah Mogin: In high school, your stars will shine…

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  • From “John McEnroe Visits Seven Months” by Sean Aden Lovelace, winner of the Crazyhorse fiction prize: He says, “John, you make me ill, physically ill. Listen: every person has one thing they’re placed on this earth to do, born to do. Think Mozart, think Pistol Pete. Most people — I bet ninety-nine percent — never…