Month: March 2006

  • Swearing Allegiance

    As soon as I get my teeth back in I’m gonna tell you all what you can do with your pansy anti-war act The papers and TV are all abuzz today with the startling revelation that cussing (as we used to call it where I grew up) is becoming more and more pervasive. I became…

  • The Bumper Sticker

    C stands for Look Out! I’ve been searching for the perfect bumper sticker for the Prius. I love driving that car every time I pass a gas station, and hate it every time I try to pass some idiot in the left lane on 169. The car needs definition. I bought a sticker in Spain…

  • The Melancholy of Anatomy

    By the way… If you happen to have a literary tattoo–you know, some sort of text excerpt from a favorite poem or book–you must get in touch without further ado! I’m looking for lettered tattoos that reference the greats… And I promise not to critique your taste in literature. Or your biceps for that matter.…

  • Click-Through Fatigue II

    Another nice episode of “Future Tense” this morning, following up on this obsessing issue of online advertising. A study just out from Nielsen Norman has found that online advertising “works” about 0.01 percent of the time–in other words, hardly ever. What did the study consider “working”? Apparently, they found a way to measure the amount…

  • Anybody who roll like that gotta have backup dancers!

    Is it just me, or does all the great work by living, breathing playwrights get produced in March, April, and May? It’s just me, of course… I’ve seen plenty’a great, new works at other times of the year; I very much enjoyed Alan Berks’ new play at Gremlin Theatre just this past February, for example.…

  • Some Other Yesterday, Some Other Tomorrow

    I wonder where you were going in such a hurry when I passed you walking on the opposite side of the street yesterday? You always did have that purposeful look about you. Even as a little girl you seemed like you were in a hurry to get somewhere. I knew how important it was for…