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Archive for April 2012

sleep like a royal

DON’T HAVE NAUSEA, MAN I will save the details for my literary agent (or I would if I had one), but last night I dreamed an entire script of a play. It was an existential fable starring Bart Simpson (we may have some copyright problems), who more or less just wandered in the void and […]

swag et cetera

I am reading a Holocaust memoir and it smells terrible. I am actually considering taking this stinky copy back to the library and buying it on Kindle instead, although I don’t actually own a Kindle. A crazy part of me feels that it would be undignified to read a Holocaust memoir on the Kindle iPhone […]

from Manhattan and not a bum

WHAT IN THE WORLD ARE YOU DOING Recently I have seen more than one person buy a bagel and then tear out the inside of the bagel, leaving a bread shell. When I spoke of this odd behavior, my coworker said that it was called a “scooped” bagel, and that in fact at some bagel […]