Hi, I’m Robin, and I’m a chocoholic. (Hi, Robin!) It’s been 158 days since my last piece of chocolate. Incredible.
Some of you may recall the great chocolate and liver experiment of July, 2006. I hesitate to link to it, just because I am once again exposing my weirdness, but what the [...]
I read this article once about how people’s personalities and interests are so well-established by the time we’re in fifth grade, whatever we say at that point we want to be when we grow up actually comes to pass a high percentage of the time.
That’s certainly true for me. In fifth grade I wanted [...]
I really want to crank today on the new novel, so this is going to be a quickie. A few random notes:
1. Just read this review of our pal Barry Lyga’s novel The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl:
“Here is a novel that contains both the hopeful resilience of childhood and the [...]
I wouldn’t have known about this if Patrick hadn’t alerted me a few days ago. (He also pointed out this item about the sea parks immediately raising their ticket prices, because “Who doesn’t secretly wish for the whales to attack someone else?”)
You may have already known about the whole killer whale problem, but perhaps [...]
A few nights ago I attended a dojo wedding (definition: two members of my dojo marrying each other, causing an unusual number of black belts to be gathered in one church. Ninjas optional). The bridal party (including the maid–excuse me, bridesman–of honor) were all men, all of them close to six feet [...]
Our discussion over the past few days about how we keep meaning to read more, and we for sure keep meaning to read all those classics, but some of the classics actually suck (Exhibit A: Ulysses), and so we don’t really want to give up precious hours of our lives for that garbage–
And then [...]