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I'll be reading Growing Up with Tamales for story time at Blue Willow Bookshop, in Houston, on Thursday morning, May 15. Tell everyone you know with kids in the Houston area. How do you find and support local indie book stores like Blue Willow? By going to Booksense.

On Saturday, May 17, I'll be in Dallas, reading and signing at the J. Erik Jonsson Central Library, for the 13th Dallas Children’s Book Fair & Literary Festival.

On June 22, here in Houston, I'm going to do a poetry workshop. It's free and open to the public, y'all, and they're having one every Sunday in June, taught by local poets I love and respect. So come on down.

Friday, April 27, 2007
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Two creative writing students record their observations of Alec Baldwin's Yale visit. "She grabs my neck and pulls me towards her. 'He's looking at me like this and them he says, what are you doing after this?'"

You'll either laugh at LOLcats, or else you won't and then I'll wonder what part of the brain we do not have in common. (And I'll know that you can't appreciate the fact that I has a flavor.) In case you need help, Anil Dash explains the living shit out of it.

Regarding this most sickeningly cute kitten montage, for the bottom left photo, my boyfriend has suggested the LOL-esque caption "I R modeling for plezzure."

I love to read about people's crappy gift experiences, even when they're for made-up holidays. I think "Administrative Professionals' Day" has taken the place of Valentine's Day as the date for the most disappointments.

It's hard to keep up with the TV shows these days, so my family and I usually avoid them, then rent and watch whole seasons via Netflix. (Your Source for Effed-Up and Mislabeled DVDs, I think is their motto.) So we're starting on Season 2 of Battlestar Galactica now, and I'm totally obsessed with it. And, if I'm obsessed with a show, that has to mean that somebody's obsessed enough to make some hot, sexy slashfic out of it. Right?

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 We get treated very well at the lawfirm where I work. Food every day during the week of the holiday: either fruit and pastries in the morning, or cookies in the afternoon. Plus: flowers on Monday, planter with seeds and Starbucks card on Tuesday, bucket of cute office supplies (to use at work or take home) plus lunch out on Wednesday (the whole firm), chair massage on Thursday, and today a picnic basket with tablecloth and napkins, plastic dishes and glasses, silverware, and sunblock!

And it's not to make up for anything: they take us seriously, treat us respectfully, and say thank you often.


# posted by Blogger Kai Jones : 2:53 PM  

 I never, ever fail to giggle until I snort over the LOLcats.


# posted by Anonymous Jane : 2:02 PM  

 Hi Gwen,

My husband is so obsessed with scifi that we own Battlestar Galactica 1 & 2.

But he says that Loren Green is the better commander Adama.

And I liked the origenal Star Buck, but this new gal does do a good job acting just like him. But she's not as cute.

Janice~


# posted by Blogger Janice : 12:22 AM  

 Kai: That's awesome. Congratulations on having the good job you undoubtedly deserve.

Jane: O hai! I R ansering ur blog comment.

Janice: Really? I can't believe your husband likes Lorne Green better. Dude.

Original Starbuck = some of the hottest hotness the 1970s had to offer.


# posted by Blogger Gwen : 10:22 AM  

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