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Archive for April 2005

and, finally, just lichen.

On 26 April 2005

I have very little to say today. But I do want to get it out there that “Rain King” is possibly the worst Sonic Youth song in their entire oeuvre, and that the following sentence makes me smile like a big crazy smilehead: “We also cannot control the firmness of the Smurfs from tub to […]

long live chairman mao

On 19 April 2005

Once a month or so, my friend S. and I get together, get drunk, and get caked. By which I mean we bake a cake, or cookies, or some other kind of baked good, and if you have never seen two liquored-up women with shaky math skills try to figure out how many tablespoons are […]

unlikely as a suckling pig on a Shabbos table

On 12 April 2005

MIMI CONVEYS AN EMOTION: RUDE. Me, riding the El train home in a foul temper. A little blonde girl child, probably about six or seven, is riding opposite me with what looks to be her mother and grandmother. Little blonde child is clutching an American Girl doll, the adults are laden down with shopping bags […]

as if there were tiny weights attached to the corners

On 6 April 2005

LT had to go to a “parent-teacher conference” about Nora. Yes, for preschool. We needed a full report on her progress in preschool. How are the fingerpainting skills coming along? Can she string the wooden beads on the shoelace? Is she adequately “showing her shoe” during the “Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear” rhyme?* Next week is […]