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Seriously, though: what's with the penguins?
we know something you don’t know
LITERARY 1. New entry in the “Why Wasn’t I Obsessed Long Before Now” files: Shirley Jackson. Everyone has read “The Lottery,” but there is so much other good stuff! Although not as much as there could have been, given that she had to go and die at age 48. I have now read all the […]
codependent self-styled nightmare
1. Before I went to bed last night I went to re-tuck Nora’s blankets, kiss her head, and turn off the lava-lamp nightlight, just as usual. The difference was that she woke up a little and said, quite clearly but with her eyes closed, “If a remote control car bumped into a turtle, the turtle […]
tired of knocking
CONTINUOUS, FLOWING NARRATIVE IS FOR LOSERS I am in terrible procrastination mode right now. There is something for work that I have been putting off because it involves fighting with some very terrible software in order to accomplish the task. There is writing something in my diary that will actually be intelligible to other people […]
like a baton
OH HUSH YOUR MOUTH An acquaintance recently expressed “surprise” (that sort of disingenuous surprise that is really just a cover-up for judgmental dismay) that Nora owns a Nintendo DS and enjoys playing video games during her limited “screen time.” 1. I know for a fact that this woman allows her child to watch TV. Why […]
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