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Archive for April 2008

the dullest scalpel in the drawer

WELCOME TO BED The two things I like to do in bed are (a) fuck and (b) sleep. I also like to read and chat, but those are warm-up activities to one of the two main events. I do not like to snuggle. I feel kind of bad about it, because LT is a world-class […]

I can totally believe that it's not butter

WHERE I'M CALLING FROM This week has included entirely too much running around and socializing, including a dinner with the parents of Nora's best friend. They have a downstairs playroom and whatever Star Wars-based scenario was happening down there was quiet and conflict-free.* So much so, in fact, that I gave the children very little […]

building on Bakhtin's theory of speech genres

NO, PARDON YOU Today either I am abnormally hostile or people are abnormally weird, because strangers keep TALKING to me and LOOKING at me funny and just generally EXISTING IN MY SPACE, and I am super-sick of it. When I went to order my grilled cheese the grill guy (a new or perhaps substitute grill […]