Monthly Archives: April 2009
Belga
I go to Belgium, for a week, on a travel junket for food writers. In the breakfast rooms of their hotels I read the news online from my computer, which is all about how Michelle Obama hugged the Queen, and … Continue reading
Filed under letters to you, trash, travel
Funny, Not Funny, Fun
Carbs In Carbs: Pasta in a bread bowl. That is all. Astrologer Eric Francis explains why the news media freak-out regarding Swine Flu feels so weird. Mark Taylor makes a big hippie wish in the NYTimes for the end of … Continue reading
Filed under apocalypse, dance break, fiction, media, music, writers, writing
Self-Googling Is Hygiene
I say it as a kind of joke, but it’s true: Self-Googling in the age of the internet is one of the most important things you can do in public life. The idea of the writer as a vain creature … Continue reading
Filed under author's own
The Story Thus Far
I’m writing this in my kitchen in Amherst, at my table while I cook a late dinner. I’ve spent the day preparing to start putting the second novel up on the wall again, something I haven’t done in a little … Continue reading
Filed under letters to you
This Is Not The Superhero Film You Were Looking For
In retrospect, the sturm und drang over whether the Watchmen was any good or not (as a film based on the graphic novel) made us lose sight of what it actually was—a story that’s at least meant to satirize the … Continue reading
Filed under animal savagery, comics, film, gossip, graphic novels, manga, what is right with us, what is wrong with us
After We All Got To Earth
1. Battlestar Galactica ends. The very next morning, everything looks to me like something from the show. 2. In the last episode, Earth is found, or rather, a planet they rename Earth, as if the old, destroyed one didn’t exist. … Continue reading
Filed under apocalypse
