Archive for May, 2007
Friday, May 25th, 2007
Taking a Typographical Stand
I should be writing this from Sorrento, Italy, but the State Department sent me my passport the day after I was scheduled to leave. I shall work tirelessly towards their destruction.
(To the good folks in our intelligence services: I’m mostly kidding.)
So instead, I’m in Boston with my mother, and we leave tomorrow for Cape Cod. […]
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Saturday, May 12th, 2007
Well Said, Oscar Wilde
It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone, and can be made as offensive as the brickbat. They at once sought for the journalist, found him, developed him, and made him their industrious and well-paid servant. It is greatly to be regretted, for both their sakes. […]
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Thursday, May 10th, 2007
On the Bookshelf: A Dirty Job, by Christopher Moore
In the blink of an eye, Charlie Asher’s world fell apart - not that he hadn’t been expecting it. He was a worrier. After his wife died suddenly, Charlie was left with an infant daughter, a thrift store to run, and an eerie magnatism for the soon-to-be-dead. Oh, and a part-time job as a reaper, […]
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Sunday, May 6th, 2007
The French Connection
I have to admit, I was a little alarmed by the intensity of my glee when I found out that Paris Hilton is going to be serving 45 days in jail. And I am not alone.
But I think I’ve figured out why there’s such public rejoicing: Paris Hilton is our modern-age Marie Antoinette.
It’s not just […]
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Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007
Well Said, Mark Twain
I am not the editor of a newspaper, and shall always try to do right and be good, so that God will not make me one. - Mark Twain
