A few days ago a writer I don’t know personally but whose blog I read (so therefore I feel as if I know this person–aren’t we all like that?) was slammed in a comment on someone else’s blog. Not maliciously, but just in one of those off-hand, drive-by kind of ways–the old, “I don’t [...]
I think Joel Stein is one of the funniest writers out there. Please enjoy yourself reading this week’s essay for Time magazine about Mel and The Chosen People.
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I happened to catch on TV yesterday the second-best movie of all time (after The Princess Bride, of course). The Great Escape is one of those movies where if you’re going to watch five minutes of it, you might as well commit to the whole three and a half hours.
What makes it so spectacular? [...]
I didn’t feel like reading last week. And I may not this week. And I’m okay with that.
This may sound like blasphemy coming from a writer, but I actually think of it as therapeutic. I just came off a few intense weeks of non-stop writing and copy editing from the crack of [...]
Don’t get me wrong–I’m as much of a prude as the next person exactly like me–but I don’t see what the big deal is. Sure it’s a giant boob out there for all the world to gape at, but there is a baby attached to it, for heaven’s sake.
Baby Talk magazine has [...]
I read this story about how Sean Penn decided he wanted to be an actor. It was during career day at his high school, and the actor Anthony Zerba came in to talk to Sean’s class. Sean couldn’t take his eyes off Zerba’s black ankle zip boots. He decided right then that [...]
A Fuse #8 Production started this discussion yesterday, and I’m bringing it over here.
Apparently there are some people out there–including J.K. Rowling herself, if you believe what she said in her talk the other night–who believe that Dumbledore really is dead. Come on, now. Stop kidding around.
I like the link Fuse [...]
I’m so happy when the news fits right into my book. (And by the way, we have a new title! It’s EVOLUTION, ME, AND OTHER FREAKS OF NATURE. Love it. Ready to print it on a thousand T-shirts.)
A Kansas community is fighting blood and guts over whether to continue teaching evolution [...]
I was just listening to a TV commercial featuring a woman who’s running for office. And she has this squirrelly, girly voice that makes her sound like a first-grader, not like a woman of substance and power. Women like that don’t do well in debates because their voices start getting on everyone’s nerves. [...]