Joshilyn Jackson's Blog, page 42
May 18, 2009
3 Questions with Michelle Richmond (and a Contest!)
No One You Know was one of my favorite reads last year, and “anything by Michelle Richmond” is one of my most frequent answers when I call or visit book clubs and they ask for a recommendation for their next...
May 15, 2009
BitterBitterBitter
Life is cancelled. My favorite television show. It was so perfect and great – so well written, well cast, well produced, well acted. SO nuanced and smart and funny and exciting. I think they KNEW it was on the...
May 13, 2009
Spectrum
I have two friends, Karen and Mir, who are POLAR opposites, but both make me laugh my butt off. Here is a conversation I had with Karen Abbott yesterday: Me: Wow. I hate that picture of me. It looks like...
May 12, 2009
Better tUesday: Numbers
Or, what happens in Dallas Gets Pink Socked Into Oblivion, part the Two-eth. And immediately, I am ready to digress. Huzzah. Before the opening SENTENCE I am ready to digress, and put off telling you about the trip to talk...
May 10, 2009
"Happy Mother's Day Gina! from your Bunkin"
I can't explain it. It was just a thing I had to say....
May 8, 2009
What Happens in Dallas, Stays. (But not on my butt) PART THE ONETH
It’s not news to you, Best Beloveds, that I am mentally ill on the subject of _____. There are a multitude of things that could fit in that blank. Dentists. Roaches. Joss Whedon. But the queen mother of ALL my...
May 6, 2009
The Littlest Millennium
When we started, you and I, things were different. Back then, "You and I" was me and Scott, my mom and dad, a couple of my friends from church and grad school, and maybe a dozen peeps from various internet...
May 5, 2009
3 Questions with River Jordan
I met River Jordan more than twenty years ago. (Eep.) Obviously, I was still a fetus. Okay, fine. I was a teenager. Same thing, in a lot of ways. We were in a playwriting class together at the University of...
May 3, 2009
Double-You Tee Aitch
This is the boogery little something we found in the leaves we brought in to feed our Pestilent Vermins. Maisy calls him Tiny Ted but the rest of us call him Mookvonavich. Maisy says Tiny Ted is a nickname...for Mookvonavich....
May 2, 2009
BOOK DAY! YAY (But Also Vermin Day. Heh.)
TODAY a moistened slump of cardboard box was sitting on my porch (stupid rain, stupid late Friday delivery) but when I opened it, the inside was still magically DRY and WARM, it was like TOAST in there, and nestled safely...
