On A Treasury of the World's Worst Online Dating Stories
@jfruh To be fair, she might have been an artist. She refused to identify her medium. She did, however, tell me about rupturing an uppity prisoner's spleen with her billy-club, so perhaps her art was sadism. I didn't stick around to find out.
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On Please Can We Have Janet McTeer Be a Famous Person in America?
I really, really wanted to like Albert Nobbs, but alas! it was a pretty disappointing film. McTeer was good, but the idea that she was passing for a guy stretched credulity.
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On The Architect, The "It” Girl And The Toy Pistol That Wasn't
This definitely had me wondering if I was reading a parallel word narrative, or if I was going mad (RE Shaw v. Thaw).
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On The Novels of Peter Carey
I'd put Tristan Smith, Bliss, and Jack Maggs higher up, but it's a fine list.
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On When You May Wear a Button-Down Shirt
Don't get me started on "Black Tie" becoming a synonym for "ultra-formal" -- I mean, what happened to "White Tie" formality?
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On An Important Reminder About How To Use "Akimbo"
Please tell me I'm not the only one who picked up the TLOG reference: "Legs Akimbo Theatre Company"
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On Something Something Lunar Eclipse
Maybe this will help us find who carved the huge letters "CHA" into it.
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On Are You A "Look" Person Or A "So" Person?
I find a "Consider..." or "Notwithstanding..." or even a breathy "Yea! For it shall come to pass that ..." always seems to charm.
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On Maurice Sendak And His Editor Ursula Nordstrom: A Cautionary Tale
Thanks for this article! I'd never before heard of Ursula Nordstrom.
Then again, I was one of those people who thought Edward Gorey was dead until the New Yorker article.