Wouldn’t you rather watch me clip my toenails?
MSNBC will run twenty hours of royal wedding coverage on the day that what’s-his-name and what’s-her-name get married. My initial reaction was disgust at a news agency for turning itself…
A dramatic reading of Gwyneth Paltrow’s cookbook
As I work on a semi-autobiographical book on productivity, I will keep this video in mind and attempt to avoid the pitfalls of self-indulgence:
Killer tornados not OK
I’ve never liked the abbreviation for Oklahoma. Abbreviations should never spell words that could later be misconstrued as the actual word. Case in point: Today’s headline from the Daily Beast…
I do not understand teenagers who fail to rebel
My wife tells me that a former student, now in college, is engaged to get married. I raise my eyebrows, surprised at the early age in which she has decided to…
In defense of revision
Two of my favorite television shows of all time, and two of my wife’s favorite television shows of all time, are remakes: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (a remake of a…
Visual representation of a specific human emotion
This is what “No, we can’t have ice cream for dinner” looks like:
Defending my biography
During a recent book event in Vermont, two different people assigned to introduce me jocularly questioned the various biography pages that I have scattered throughout the Internet. Specifically, a few…
Don’t upset the French.
In the real world, there is no equity when it comes to retaliation. You fire bullets at our ambassador’s house and we will fire rockets at your President. That, my…
Pugnacious, happily-married Franklin-like contemporary of Jennifer Egan
The always generous Jim Higgins of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel wrote a piece about me and one of my recent blog posts entitled Top 10 Ideas About Books. I’m not…
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