May 3, Houston: The big one -- the Inprint reading -- occurs at the Alley Theatre on Monday, May 3. Do not miss it or you'll be sorry. I'm not kidding -- I'm going to say the craziest, most intellectual yet hilarious stuff I can think of, and I'll be sharing the stage with the ultra sexy Oscar Casares, too.
June 24, Houston: I'm one of the peeps scheduled to read at Poison Pen, at Houston's famous Poison Girl bar. Besides me, everyone there will be ultra, *super* sexy. Come see me and drink!
June 26, Washington, DC: I'll be reading at the American Library Association conference. Come on down.
My other blog: Go read my the Houston Chronicle parenting blog (or my ChronMomBlog, as I like to call it) and make sure my kids won't resent me more than other kids resent their own parents.
Buy my new novel, Lone Star Legend. Already did? Well, buy a few more for your friends, then. :)
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Linkelodeon1. Zadie Smith cohosted a short story contest. Eight hundred and fifty people entered. Then, Ms. Smith informed the entrants that none of their stories were good enough to win. Ouchies.
No, I didn't enter, because I didn't hear about the contest until now. But if I'd entered, I would be walking around with a drink in my hand right now, telling people, "Zadie Smith doesn't care for my writing." Too bad I didn't enter, then. Next year I will.
2. I kind of suspect this is a publicity stunt, or kind of hope it is, for the sake of everyone involved: One of Gawker's former editors "secretly" hooked up with another one of Gawker's editors, and one of the two apparently kept a "secret" blog about the relationship. And so the other of the two went ahead and wrote a big old essay about it for Page 6 mag, telling everyone in the world who didn't already know.
3. Related subject, on the internets and in my mind: A long time ago, Tracie Egan wrote an essay about trying to get her rape fantasy fulfilled. I was interested to find out what would happen, so read eagerly. But then, it turned into a sad story about thwarted hopes, all the way around.
All three preceding links via Gawker, which is my painful weekday addiction.
4. Ashton Kutcher at your middle school dance.
5. The Barbie Tarot, via Pop Culture Junk Mail.
6. This is old, but still true: Roast Beef and Ray discuss McDonald's vs Starbucks.
7. I keep seeing this Star Wars cook book at Urban Outfitters and wanting it, even though the recipes themselves aren't that exciting. The pictures are funny, though.
8. Another old thing. We saw this SNL rerun Digital Short the other night, and can't stop thinking about it: People Getting Punched Just Before Eating. You have to watch a commercial first, sorry. That's the price of legal content viewing. Also, please view with sound on, as the song is half the magic.
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12:01 PM #Comments:
The Emily/Josh thing @ Gawker seems to be true... at least, I read the "secret blog" (how secret could it have been if I got a link? Yes, exactly) back when it was still going, and it seemed legit.:(
# posted by
Calista : 1:46 PM
Oh, Tracie Egan. I'm having a lynching fantasy right now. I would secretly love it if someone came over and strung me up from a tree. What a turn on!
Loved the Zadie Smith drink-in-hand scenario.
# posted by
Marigoldie : 8:18 AM
Zombie Dance!
# posted by
jam : 12:12 PM
Calista: :(, indeed, then.
Marigoldie: Heh. You know, I don't even have an issue with the rape fantasy. To each her own, and I was interested to see how it'd play out. I expected the article to be about gigolos refusing to service her, or maybe about the psuedo reality of the situation changing her mind. But, instead, she goes with an amateur instead of a professional, she keeps changing her mind about what she wants, and then the guy comes early and becomes smitten. And she didn't tell him she was unhappy, and she overpaid him. And... what was the point? It made me feel sorry for the narrator, on the one hand, that she didn't know how to ask for what she wanted and felt the need to be "nice" to someone who did nothing to warrant it. At the same time, it almost seemed like the rape fantasy premise was something tacked on at the end, to serve as a more enticing hook for her story.
Jam: Best parts: the music, Dave Grohl's face, "Believe in your dreams!"
# posted by
Gwen : 8:38 AM
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