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August 17, 2009
The Mailbox of Notre Dame- An American in Paris 3
For those of you who are following my French adventure, and trying to learn from my mistakes, let me give you tip. France is far. If you don't live in California, it's probably not quite as far, but for me, it's far. Like far enough that I completely left Friday and most of Saturday in the sky somewhere, and even after spending much of Sunday looking at statues and buying stinky cheese, the lying was only just getting started on Meet the Press and ABC's What Kind of Tree Do You Want to BE with
August 12, 2009
Je suis ecossais An American In Paris 2
So I knew some time ago that I was going to go to France to research my next book, and my entire French vocabulary consisted of: "Two coffees and two croissants", "please", "thank you", "hello", and "the dog is on the table" I didn't figure that it was enough to get me through a long research trip.
Scientists all agree that there is no better time to learn a foreign language than in your 50s, when you begin to forget words in your native language as well as other useless stuff, like the PIN to yo
Je suis ecossaise An American In Paris 2
So I knew some time ago that I was going to go to France to research my next book, and my entire French vocabulary consisted of: "Two coffees and two croissants", "please", "thank you", "hello", and "the dog is on the table" I didn't figure that it was enough to get me through a long research trip.
Scientists all agree that there is no better time to learn a foreign language than in your 50s, when you begin to forget words in your native language as well as other useless stuff, like the PIN to yo
August 11, 2009
An American In Paris
If you haven't been there, it seems all too romanticized, all very cheesy, existential, bohemian — LaCroix dahling, LaCroix — so so fucking French. If you have been there, you have your own Paris, it's yours, and believe it or not it is, will always be, better than mine.
I just learned this last night. Everyone has his or her own Paris. Parises are like snowflakes, or maybe more appropriately, like Rorschach tests. Each is unique, and you see only what YOU see.
"You have to go to this restaurant
May 25, 2009
The Time Travel Tweets
The Time Travel Tweets
I’ve been time traveling lately. Here’s the Tweets I sent back:
Time Travel Tweets
My Time Machine Finally Finished. I’m off to warn them about the bomb. If there’s a city where Chicago used to be, it worked!
Time Machine Working Great. Off to tell my younger self that there’s a reason why that chick at the disco has such big hands.
TimeTravelTweets: Evidently rubbing Hitler’s toothbrush on my butt had no effect on the war. Wait, I’m not typing German. Cool.
Hate that you have
May 24, 2009
The Twilight Tweets
From time to time I’ll post groups of tweets on the regular blog for those of you who like to live your lives in more than 140 characters. Here’s the Twilight Tweets…
So, in order to be wildly irritating to people in the Eastern Time Zones, I started live-blogging Twilight on Twitter as I watched it on PPV the other night (at about 11pm Pacific) I know everyone else either read the books years ago or saw the movie last year, but I’ve been busy and I’m not a fourteen year old girl, so it didn’t ha
May 11, 2009
The Sneezing Cow and the Pacific Northwest
Hey Kids:
Just a heads up, my friend Michael Perry is coming to Seattle and Portland over the next week, and if you’re in the neighborhood and could use a smile you should go see him. He’s an essayist who writes about rural life in Wisconsin in a very funny yet touching way. Think David Sedaris with livestock and volunteer firemen.
His new book is COOP, and I just bought it at his event yesterday, so I can’t report on it yet, but what he read from it was terrific, and he does a pretty good show be
April 30, 2009
Signed Fools and Lambs
No, not actual fools and actual lambs. You can’t get either one of those things to stand still while you sign them.
These are copies of my books, Fool and Lamb, signed, sealed, delivered from Books Inc in San Francisco.
The Fools are 1st Editions. The Lambs are the leather “Bibley” gift edition.
Canadians will have to call, but they will ship to you guys. Books Inc is an independent bookseller.
April 29, 2009
The Swine Flu Tweets
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So, today Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Spector changed from the Republican to the Democratic party, the spare Airforce One and fighter escort flew low over Manhattan yesterday, scaring the hell out of the populace, there’s a swine flu epidemic (kinda) that appears to have started in Mexico and was brought into the US by Catholic School kids who were in Cancun on Spring Break, but conservatives have been yelling about it being brought in by illegal immegrants, and new memos are
April 23, 2009
New Tweets! Now with Marshmallow Weasels!
It’s solutions day! Solution to the American Auto Company Woes: Make Cars that Don’t Suckabout 5 hours ago from web Solution for people who are worried Miss America was unfairly chosen: You’ll want to think ab
