an opponent of his conservative views doused him with salad dressing.
Salad dressing?? Is there some political content to roughage I don't know about? I mean, there is political theatre, and then there is "What I had in my fridge" theatre.
As for Ayelet Waldman, I am squirmy about all kinds of confessional writing, so I was made squirmy about her NYT column. Some people draw the curtain in different places from where I do. When I say potentially cruel or hurtful things about people who care about me, I change their names to Bob and Binky.
Which is not to say that the real people cannot tell that they are Bob and Binky, but I am all about the cloak of deniability. (And anyway, whoever said that thing about all novelists being traitors? Said it about novelists, so the Bob and Binky component is key.)
In Kalamazoo?
Shrift, where you last night???
Go you with your mad survey skillz!
Hee! Except, I just went and looked at the individual responses and more than one person said they'd be willing to talk more, but didn't leave their name or contact info. Oops. Not sure if there was a way to avoid that, though.
Congratulations, Jim and Penny!
And also moonlit, who I haven't seen in ages os she probably won't see this, but I'm happy for her.
Ack. Co-worker is insisting on talking about Terri Schiavo. I'd avoided discussing that up until now. Not only going on about her opinion, but asking don't I agree with her? Just get your coffee and go away, woman!
Hell, now office mate's boss is in the conversation. Sigh.
Here's an article about a famous April Fool's day hoax. Made me happy to read it.
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Cross posted with Bitches:
I just changed my profile address to keep up with the name change, but I probably won't use the new address. People should just keep using the old address.
Man, I loved George Plimpton. A great man.
As for Ayelet Waldman
I liked that column. Didn't bother me in the slightest. If she's raising her children with the same kind of honesty that she shows in her writing, they're not going to be surprised when they read it and they're not going to doubt that she loves them. It felt to me like "I love my children lots and lots, but I love my husband even more."
Apparently, that Vampire High show is Canadian.
