Dumbass, Party of One

Posted by on Aug 14, 2009 in dish | 5 comments Ever have one of those days? Today was mine. I’m ferrying Frick and Frack and a friend to a skating party on an end of town I try never to explore, if I can help it. Then, while trying to get turned back around in the second most badly-designed parking lot in the world, I get distracted and WHAM! I hit a curb, Inga lurches unbecomingly, scrape, curse, I manage to cut a hole in the sidewall...
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Blowout, Schmowout

Posted by on Aug 13, 2009 in dish | 2 comments Got my fresh back to school haircut today (yay!) and decided to let Ms. M, my hilarious Sicilian/Greek (how’s that for a nice, quiet house to grow up in?) give me a blowout. mimi is usually all about the curls, but today, why not something different?Know what? Me no likey. It feels fun, but MAN, is straight hair annoying. It’s In. My. Face. In my eyelashes. In my mouth. Hanging over...
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Newbery Update: 1940s

Posted by on Aug 10, 2009 in dish | 0 comments I’m noticing a shift in the kinds of books being selected for the Newbery Medal. Perhaps because WWII dominated the early forties, the books are much shorter than some of the ones I’ve already read. Also, there seems to have been a nudge (deliberate or not) to balance the list toward more “boy” books than the slew of girl-focused titles chosen in the 1930s, like Hitty,...
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Best Seller ≠ Best Writer

Posted by on Aug 8, 2009 in dish | 0 comments mimi is obsessive when it comes to her reading. If I pick up a book, I generally finish it. Of course, that takes some vetting. I’ll browse an opening chapter or back cover copy before I commit (mimi is not a reading ho). Once I commit, though, I’m in ’til the end. Normally, this is a good thing. Unfortunately, not so much with the book I finished last night.The book in...
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I <3 School Supplies!

Posted by on Aug 6, 2009 in dish | 0 comments I don’t know about you, but I’ve always been way more excited in the Office Depot or the Staples than I have ever been in the shoe department. Yes, I’m warped. But still, there’s something about fresh, new Dixon Ticonderoga pencils, Pink Pearl erasers, and riffly sheets of notebook paper that just gives me the shivers. New school supplies mark the beginning of an...
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