So, right now I am on a mini-vacation with plantastic, soaking up the sun and the wine in the Russian River valley of northern California. How can we possibly afford this? Good question. It turns out that I was already being flown out here to give a talk at a local university, and since it was spring break in our semester, plantastic cashed in ( Read more... )

For my derby friends across the pond:

CCRG makes its British press debut on Monday, March 12th on BBC's "Breakfast", the story
will air hourly between 6am and 9am their time! Featured interviews with Minerva VaVoom,
Lady Quebeaum and Joy Collision. Tell your fam and friends across the pond to tune in!

My study is in the front room upstairs, and my desk faces the windows overlooking Falls Road, across the street from the Enoch Pratt Free Library, Branch Number 7. It has rad ionic columns.


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So first of all, you should all be going to see the Charm City Roller Girls battle the Long Island Roller Rebels, this Sunday evening (6pm) at Putty Hill Skateland. Reasons? Here you go:

1. Women's flat track roller derby is inherently awesome. If you somehow didn't learn this last year during the entire first season of CCRG bouting, now you know ( Read more... )

(You really should click on the thumbnail to see the entire awesominity of Nolen Strals' poster design)


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So this is the last day of WYPR's fundraising drive.

I am a huge supporter of NPR -- it's one of the few aspects of the media that I really appreciate.

So I am here to guilt you: if you listen to WYPR regularly, or even semi-regularly, you should give something to them -- they deserve your support ( Read more... )

(sent to 7-11, (http://12.45.139.55:7001/CR/CR_home.jsp) I encourage you to do the same ( Read more... )

So you should all go see my beloved plantastic in her upcoming production of The Distance from Here, by Neil LaBute ( Read more... )

So a Scandinavian comedy show has essentially summed up my book in a two-minute bit . . .