Archive for March 2013
Paperback cover!
Behold the paperback cover for MEMOIRS OF AN IMAGINARY FRIEND. The paperback edition doesn’t publish for another two months, so until then, you’ll simply have to purchase the hardcover version. Fear not. As far as I know, it contains all the same words in the same order.
Read MoreIt’s not backwards. It’s fashion forward.
My daughter believes that shirts are designed to be worn whatever way she wants. This shirt, for example, was designed by the manufacturer so that the dog would be on the front of the shirt. Clara decided to wear it with the dog on the back because, in her words, “I don’t feel like looking…
Read MorePlease settle a bet between my wife and me: Did you ever walked the railroad tracks at least once as a child?
Yesterday, I wondered aloud how the railroad companies keep snow off the tracks. It turns out that they use plows attached to train engines to clear the tracks. Before I was able to check Google for the answer, Elysha suggested that the tracks might be heated. “No,” I said. “Can you imagine the amount of…
Read MoreJ.Crew Crew
Some brilliant person has taken the J.Crew catalog and used the images to create three minute narratives that are both funny and, in the words of one commenter, “de-mythologize the vaguely-exotic-yet-comfortable-and-assured lifestyles and identities marketed to our authenticity-seeking culture. It appears that about four of these have been made so far, but I still love…
Read MoreLuckiest man on the planet
I love it when deserving people are made to look stupid.
My “novel in the drawer” (the book I wrote two years ago and am keeping in reserve for a rainy day) is the story of a vigilante of sorts who is desperate to remain unidentified by his community. He enacts his brand of vigilante justice through acts of public shaming. His name is Wyatt. Wyatt…
Read MoreA future protagonist, perhaps.
This odd and fascinating man, who spent untold hours creating a device to remove the filling from an Oreo cookie, is just the kind of person you might find in one of my books.
Read MoreDon’t call yourself old
Yesterday I heard a friend who is about my age say, “Kids today are just so disrespectful.” I laughed. I have yet to meet a student more disrespectful than my friends and I were as children. Earlier in the week another friend said, “I’m old. Okay? The days of staying awake past 1o:00 are over…
Read MoreSpeak Up: True Stories. Real People.
Back in January, I announced our intention to launch a local storytelling series here in Connecticut, modeled loosely after The Moth, the organization in New York City that hosts the storytelling events in which I compete on a regular basis. We have made significant progress since January, and I thought I’d share. First, we have…
Read MoreBest basketball shot ever
The thing I like best about this amazing, incredible, unbelievable, never-to-be-duplicated basketball shot is that it only happens because an opposing player (our antagonist) is overconfident in his supposed victory and therefore careless with the ball, and our protagonist (and my new hero) never gives up hope even in the face of overwhelming odds and…
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