be careful WHICH god you shake a stick at.

Also, I'm looking for a modern sonnet. I think I'll have to go into the archives to see if I can find one.

One more thought on NannyExpose.

Nanny is young and stupid. and spilling your sexlife details in your blog is surely your right, though giving the link to your employer? Dumb as shit.

But Mother? Get over yourself. Also, one thing to write about something in a blog, quite another to spill your guts all over the New York Times.

Though, honestly, this piece and the one about saving the husband before the kids brings out the dichotomy between private writing and public writing.

Yes -- all this "oh-so-candid" confessional writing gets up my nose. I don't learn anything interesting, in specific or in general from most of those.

I keep wanting to write an open letter.

DEAR NPR AND NEW YORK TIMES ESSAYISTS:

Unless you are Daniel Pinkwater or Baillie White, you are not nearly as interesting as you think you are. Please shut up.

I think I've hated every single "Modern Love" column ever published. I always end up reading them because they're linked on Metafilter and discussed freaking EVERYWHERE (and I'm sure that's why the Times continues to run the damn thing), but oh do I loathe that column. I've never read one single thing in there I didn't instantly regret knowing about the author.

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I should go through that site with a copy of American Gods. I won't, though.

There are noises coming from one of my vents. It is rather disturbing.

I have no thoughts on the Nanny stuff.

Jessica, was that where this column was?

There are some NPR and NYT people I love to hear or read. I thought the I Believe piece, for example, from today was though provoking. And frankly David Sedaris is way more interesting than Pinkwater to me.

But yes, the confessional writing, especially wherein it takes a jab at confessional writing? played out.

I in particular loathe the "Here is my smug little upper-middle-class life, but it's a universal experience! Really! I have just experienced something PROFOUND about love/death/parenthood! Really UNIQUE AND PROFOUND! Where's my Cosmo?" genre.

Plus avocados, that I think are making the inside of my mouth itchy. Darn you, avocados!!

Jesse, sounds like a food allergy. Well, it sounds like *my* food allergy specifically. But I love them so I always carry Benedryl.

I am hella allergic to flea bites and have really strange dreams too. Shame I can't get to b.org during the day, it was totally my kind of day to add to the discussion. Oh! Mythology too. Natter was obviously way better than work today.

The nanny's uppity tone on her blog reminds me so much of the most insufferable writer I have ever worked with that I am predisposed to hate on her.

I liked two Modern Loves: one by a guy who remarried after his wife died of cancer, and one about attending a reception for a wedding that never happened, because the bride, she ran away.

Pinkwater gets on my nerves. Love Sedaris, though he hasn't done an NPR commentary in a while.