http://www.theawl.com/ Be Less Stupid Fri, 23 Oct 2009 01:19:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.2 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/calvin-trillin-for-mayor-of-awesome-town#comment-32421 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/calvin-trillin-for-mayor-of-awesome-town#comment-32421#comments Fri, 23 Oct 2009 01:19:52 +0000 s. http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/calvin-trillin-for-mayor-of-awesome-town#comment-32421 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/calvin-trillin-for-mayor-of-awesome-town#comment-32421/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/calvin-trillin-for-mayor-of-awesome-town#comment-30367 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/calvin-trillin-for-mayor-of-awesome-town#comment-30367#comments Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:08:33 +0000 JaguarPaw http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/calvin-trillin-for-mayor-of-awesome-town#comment-30367 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/calvin-trillin-for-mayor-of-awesome-town#comment-30367/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/calvin-trillin-for-mayor-of-awesome-town#comment-30265 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/calvin-trillin-for-mayor-of-awesome-town#comment-30265#comments Thu, 15 Oct 2009 08:04:20 +0000 Adouble http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/calvin-trillin-for-mayor-of-awesome-town#comment-30265 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/calvin-trillin-for-mayor-of-awesome-town#comment-30265/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/calvin-trillin-for-mayor-of-awesome-town#comment-30262 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/calvin-trillin-for-mayor-of-awesome-town#comment-30262#comments Thu, 15 Oct 2009 04:45:09 +0000 TerseNursePornstein http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/calvin-trillin-for-mayor-of-awesome-town#comment-30262 Times, or, "The Secret Sharer."]]> Times, or, "The Secret Sharer."]]> http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/calvin-trillin-for-mayor-of-awesome-town#comment-30262/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/calvin-trillin-for-mayor-of-awesome-town#comment-30240 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/calvin-trillin-for-mayor-of-awesome-town#comment-30240#comments Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:45:19 +0000 Lionel Mandrake http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/calvin-trillin-for-mayor-of-awesome-town#comment-30240 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/calvin-trillin-for-mayor-of-awesome-town#comment-30240/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/calvin-trillin-for-mayor-of-awesome-town#comment-30207 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/calvin-trillin-for-mayor-of-awesome-town#comment-30207#comments Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:04:47 +0000 Alex Balk http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/calvin-trillin-for-mayor-of-awesome-town#comment-30207 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/calvin-trillin-for-mayor-of-awesome-town#comment-30207/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/calvin-trillin-for-mayor-of-awesome-town#comment-30205 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/calvin-trillin-for-mayor-of-awesome-town#comment-30205#comments Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:02:18 +0000 Alex Balk http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/calvin-trillin-for-mayor-of-awesome-town#comment-30205 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/calvin-trillin-for-mayor-of-awesome-town#comment-30205/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/calvin-trillin-for-mayor-of-awesome-town#comment-30199 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/calvin-trillin-for-mayor-of-awesome-town#comment-30199#comments Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:53:46 +0000 mike d http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/calvin-trillin-for-mayor-of-awesome-town#comment-30199 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/calvin-trillin-for-mayor-of-awesome-town#comment-30199/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/calvin-trillin-for-mayor-of-awesome-town#comment-30195 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/calvin-trillin-for-mayor-of-awesome-town#comment-30195#comments Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:39:30 +0000 Alex Balk http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/calvin-trillin-for-mayor-of-awesome-town#comment-30195 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/calvin-trillin-for-mayor-of-awesome-town#comment-30195/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/calvin-trillin-for-mayor-of-awesome-town#comment-30194 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/calvin-trillin-for-mayor-of-awesome-town#comment-30194#comments Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:33:27 +0000 puzzled http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/calvin-trillin-for-mayor-of-awesome-town#comment-30194 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/calvin-trillin-for-mayor-of-awesome-town#comment-30194/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/calvin-trillin-for-mayor-of-awesome-town#comment-30173 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/calvin-trillin-for-mayor-of-awesome-town#comment-30173#comments Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:28:41 +0000 libmas http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/calvin-trillin-for-mayor-of-awesome-town#comment-30173 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/calvin-trillin-for-mayor-of-awesome-town#comment-30173/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/calvin-trillin-for-mayor-of-awesome-town#comment-30154 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/calvin-trillin-for-mayor-of-awesome-town#comment-30154#comments Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:54:18 +0000 eh http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/calvin-trillin-for-mayor-of-awesome-town#comment-30154 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/calvin-trillin-for-mayor-of-awesome-town#comment-30154/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/calvin-trillin-for-mayor-of-awesome-town#comment-30138 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/calvin-trillin-for-mayor-of-awesome-town#comment-30138#comments Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:38:50 +0000 hman http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/calvin-trillin-for-mayor-of-awesome-town#comment-30138 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/calvin-trillin-for-mayor-of-awesome-town#comment-30138/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/calvin-trillin-for-mayor-of-awesome-town#comment-30121 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/calvin-trillin-for-mayor-of-awesome-town#comment-30121#comments Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:20:38 +0000 Dave Bry http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/calvin-trillin-for-mayor-of-awesome-town#comment-30121 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/calvin-trillin-for-mayor-of-awesome-town#comment-30121/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/calvin-trillin-for-mayor-of-awesome-town#comment-30112 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/calvin-trillin-for-mayor-of-awesome-town#comment-30112#comments Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:12:38 +0000 lawyergay http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/calvin-trillin-for-mayor-of-awesome-town#comment-30112 Remembering Denny, a memoir of his friendship with a gay Yale undergrad and Rhodes scholar who committed suicide. The facts were just fine, but Trillin's idiotic point (the book was published in the early 1990's) was that 'this wouldn't happen now.' Except that gay and lesbian and hetero-nonconforming people are wildly more likely to commit suicide than almost any other cohort in society. Stick to Polanski poetry, Trillin.]]> Remembering Denny, a memoir of his friendship with a gay Yale undergrad and Rhodes scholar who committed suicide. The facts were just fine, but Trillin's idiotic point (the book was published in the early 1990's) was that 'this wouldn't happen now.' Except that gay and lesbian and hetero-nonconforming people are wildly more likely to commit suicide than almost any other cohort in society. Stick to Polanski poetry, Trillin.]]> http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/calvin-trillin-for-mayor-of-awesome-town#comment-30112/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/calvin-trillin-for-mayor-of-awesome-town#comment-30098 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/calvin-trillin-for-mayor-of-awesome-town#comment-30098#comments Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:53:08 +0000 johnpseudonym http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/calvin-trillin-for-mayor-of-awesome-town#comment-30098 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/calvin-trillin-for-mayor-of-awesome-town#comment-30098/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/calvin-trillin-for-mayor-of-awesome-town#comment-30095 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/calvin-trillin-for-mayor-of-awesome-town#comment-30095#comments Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:46:57 +0000 Bittersweet http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/calvin-trillin-for-mayor-of-awesome-town#comment-30095 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/calvin-trillin-for-mayor-of-awesome-town#comment-30095/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/calvin-trillin-for-mayor-of-awesome-town#comment-30093 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/calvin-trillin-for-mayor-of-awesome-town#comment-30093#comments Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:44:57 +0000 Bittersweet http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/calvin-trillin-for-mayor-of-awesome-town#comment-30093 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/calvin-trillin-for-mayor-of-awesome-town#comment-30093/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/calvin-trillin-for-mayor-of-awesome-town#comment-30091 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/calvin-trillin-for-mayor-of-awesome-town#comment-30091#comments Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:37:46 +0000 iplaudius http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/calvin-trillin-for-mayor-of-awesome-town#comment-30091 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/calvin-trillin-for-mayor-of-awesome-town#comment-30091/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/calvin-trillin-for-mayor-of-awesome-town#comment-30085 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/calvin-trillin-for-mayor-of-awesome-town#comment-30085#comments Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:28:15 +0000 amuselouche http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/calvin-trillin-for-mayor-of-awesome-town#comment-30085 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/calvin-trillin-for-mayor-of-awesome-town#comment-30085/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/calvin-trillin-for-mayor-of-awesome-town#comment-30083 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/calvin-trillin-for-mayor-of-awesome-town#comment-30083#comments Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:25:32 +0000 sunnyciegos http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/calvin-trillin-for-mayor-of-awesome-town#comment-30083 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/calvin-trillin-for-mayor-of-awesome-town#comment-30083/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/calvin-trillin-for-mayor-of-awesome-town#comment-30081 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/calvin-trillin-for-mayor-of-awesome-town#comment-30081#comments Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:23:32 +0000 Alex Balk http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/calvin-trillin-for-mayor-of-awesome-town#comment-30081 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/calvin-trillin-for-mayor-of-awesome-town#comment-30081/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/calvin-trillin-for-mayor-of-awesome-town#comment-30078 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/calvin-trillin-for-mayor-of-awesome-town#comment-30078#comments Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:21:31 +0000 iplaudius http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/calvin-trillin-for-mayor-of-awesome-town#comment-30078 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/calvin-trillin-for-mayor-of-awesome-town#comment-30078/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/calvin-trillin-for-mayor-of-awesome-town#comment-30076 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/calvin-trillin-for-mayor-of-awesome-town#comment-30076#comments Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:17:52 +0000 jfruh http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/calvin-trillin-for-mayor-of-awesome-town#comment-30076 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/calvin-trillin-for-mayor-of-awesome-town#comment-30076/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/calvin-trillin-for-mayor-of-awesome-town#comment-30074 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/calvin-trillin-for-mayor-of-awesome-town#comment-30074#comments Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:15:43 +0000 Baboleen http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/calvin-trillin-for-mayor-of-awesome-town#comment-30074 http://www.theawl.com/2009/10/calvin-trillin-for-mayor-of-awesome-town#comment-30074/feed 0