January 2012
5 posts
More like Simon Van Dreamboat
So, you know Simon Van Booy? The adorable creature featured in the video I put up a few posts back? I was innocently checking my mailbox at work the other day, and I found a beautiful little note from him thanking me for a review I wrote of Everything Beautiful Began After.
Oh yeah, I was all aflutter. I am still afluttering at the thought of it. My afluttering probably caused a hurricane...
December 2011
4 posts
John Green's tumblr: UPDATE: 2012 Tour de... →
As someone who works as an event host at an indie bookstore, can I just say how much I adore John Green and how many of his babies I would willingly gestate? I don’t even care if that last part went a bit too far, because honestly, I’ve had some wine recently. Very recently. And really and truly, that’s how much I love this post:
fishingboatproceeds:
purplesamurai:
The one...
November 2011
4 posts
October 2011
1 post
August 2011
2 posts
December 2010
1 post
I'm here.
“I read, because I prefer being the casting director for my own imagination and expanding my circle of friends to include Odysseus, Anna Karenina, Julian Sorel, Richard III, The Snopses, and old ambidextrous Portnoy. There is no coffee shop or lecture hall in the world that can offer the breadth and depth of humanity I get from spending several hours with a good book. In non-fiction, reading...
May 2010
1 post
March 2010
1 post
I have only three words:
“Pacman, I’m Jewish!”
January 2010
2 posts
November 2009
1 post
October 2009
1 post
September 2009
3 posts
August 2009
1 post
July 2009
3 posts
June 2009
2 posts
New TV Show Pitch/My Life in 20 Years
“Kat and her rocket ship time traveling lighthouse, solving mysteries, maritime or space related, not parking inland, ninjas in space cowboys pirates all fighting in space around her, post battle firefly sort of thing, brick or victorian?, in the future post cowboy pirate ninja peace accord having to live together with mandarin mysteries, tie in mcdonalds burger? Random musical numbers or...
May 2009
7 posts
the time jumper
Maybe a six hour drive, or three movies in a row, or an oak tree and a book, or a bottle of red wine and a beach, or a really high cliff and a lot of wind, or a hammock, or a time machine or a spaceship, or Pt Reyes or a train to Canada, or a haircut, or the northern lights, or a new pair of shoes, or Simon and Garfunkel turned up really really loud, or a bonfire, or a meteor shower, or an...
cancer is only skin deep, right?
I know it’s bad, but
I am craving a sunburn so badly right now.
Ladies and gentlemen, I am about to attempt...
customer at the bookshop, late thursday night:
“Can you help me find a book? I know, I know, my face is all yellow. I’m so embarrassed about it. It’s pollen. I don’t want to talk about it.”
I wasn’t going to say anything, but okay.
April 2009
4 posts
Dispatches from the East Coast
Just woke up in my friend’s apartment in Jersey City, and found her laptop with a CD on top and a sticker that simply said “listen.” This is how I like to wake up, people. Take note.
It is kind of ridiculous that I just woke up, and I was going to make the whole time difference excuse, but then I realized it’s just as ridiculous on West Coast time as it is East Coast time....
March 2009
6 posts
no such thing as an ending
“This, reader, is where I draw the line and the curtain.
I could end this book in a lot of different places, just as I began by circling, over and over, back to the day of my father’s death. I could end in bed with my husband, in the graveyard, in the church in Italy, in my psychiatrist’s office…
Or I could end driving in Connecticut, toward the highway, away from the...
the world is a good place.
Dear Sedaratives,
My friend Andrew is experiencing a renaissance after a relative nadir in his love life. I want to buy him a gift that says, “Yeah, dude. You’re doing it. Be safe.” What would you suggest?
Sandy San Francisco, Calif.
P.S. He is a box turtle
Dear Sandy,
Well, obviously you don’t need to get him condoms or anything like that. My guess is he already has...
Spinsters
Emma: Yeah but it’s better than someone trying to pick you up in a Flamenco bar.
Kat: You hang out in Flamenco bars?
Emma: Once.
Customer at the bookshop yesterday:
“Quick, my son’s distracted. Where do you keep the sexy books?”
