July 2010
16 posts
Tales from Earthsea trailer →
weeds
ok i have watched 8 eps of weeds. so basically this white lady has a group of 2-3 hot black people who officially are her “dealers” but narrative-wise, just spend their time sitting around the table doing different activities while waiting for her to show up so they can fix her life and tell her what to do and explain the world to her. and she tells them what happened to her or is...
stuff Tish likes
Around the time of Tish’s birthday, I made a list of her favorite writers for Jon:
#1. bukowski
#2. chinaski
#3. ole drunk
#4. ludlum
#5. patterson
#6. barfly
#7. rice
#8. roald dahl
#9. hamburger helper
#10. peesalot
#11. henry humphumpski
not sure from there.
stuff from Shelf Awareness newsletter
Shirley Jackson Award winners, nominees included Sarah Waters, Brian Evenson.
Lush Life by Richard Price art exhibit.
Sebastian Horsley died.
historical precedents to my feelings for lewk
Two quotes from the totally enjoyable A Jury of Her Peers: Celebrating American Woman Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx:
First, Virginia Woolf on Elinor Wylie:
“I expected a ravishing and diaphanous dragonfly … a siren, a green and sweet-voiced nymph—that was what I expected, and came a tiptoe into the room to find—a solid hunk; a hatchet-minded, cadaverous, acid voiced,...
Angel
Please please please read the description for episode 37, “Reprise.”
Go Team Angel! You can do this.
the bunny munro show
“Nick Cave confirmed that a TV mini-series of his second book The Death of Bunny Munro is still in the works. And to play Bunny? ‘Ray Winstone is dying to do it.’” —NME
He goes on to talk about how hot he finds Ray Winstone, that John Hillcoat (Proposition) will direct, and that he & Hillcoat are working on another movie.
Noel Fielding's new art show, Bryan Ferry vs. the... →
Well well well. Look who is the costar of a new... →
leaving the lights off
I got up in the middle of the night to go potty and I made the decision to not turn on the light. It’s so painful to turn on the light, right? And I realized the only reason to turn it on is because I worry about snakes in the toilet. And it’s probably not true. The urb legend about snakes being in the toilet, and then going up into your butt, and then going all through your waterways,...
