Letter from Paris, Part 9: Now, Here Was Paris
We pass a well, a perfectly round mouth in the stone where all this blue water spills out.
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Morning Coffee
The best morning of your life, every weekday at 6a.m. NPR on the books that James “Sawyer” Ford reads and the literature of Lost. The blog of unnecessary quotation marks.…
Letter from Paris, Part 8: Nazis in the Catacombs
The water isn’t as cold as I’d imagined, and it isn’t dirty.
Fiction Used to Justify Real Torture
Jack Bauer, that torturing hunk of manliness whose bad days involve more nuclear weapons and sexy double agents than hangovers and parking tickets is back
Waste Time Better: Random Alternative Self-Help Links by Ainsley Drew
Read The Secret online? Subscribe to daily affirmations and meditate for fifteen minutes a day? Or pay $90 for The Sedona Method? You’re nuts to think that stuff like that…
Schmo, Redux
The hapless, plank-toothed, rubberband men of Jeff Ladoucer‘s art are beaten by clouds, tangled in knots, burned, and carried away by an elephant in Do The Apocalypse, his latest exhibit.
Letters from Paris, Part 6: We Won’t Be Entering via Manholes Tonight
Oh well. C’est La Vie, I say brightly, always thrilled to remember something French.
What State Likes Ninjas The Most
Hawaii. Then Oregon, Washington, and California. Hmm. The western bank, as it were. Perhaps because of
BAD MOMMY: How to Get Your Child into School Without Showing Your Underwear
My first preschool tour was not a good experience. It was going okay until I realized I had dirty underwear balled into the leg of my pants. At first I…
Letter from Paris, Part 5: No One Sleeps Alone, Okay?
If anyone gets up to sleep in the other room, someone has to go with them. No one sleeps alone, okay? Judy declares.
Fade to Orange: Michelle Orange’s Film Link Implosion
The ladies! The ladies! Slate’s Movie Club is back and this year it’s allll woman. I love this thing, it’s the best thing about the crummy first week of the…