what is, like, up with Americans

It’s the cholesteral.

Seriously, though, the way I feel right now, I’d order three of these.

we are the strange

No idea what this means, if it’s supposed to mean anything. But I’m okay with it. Whatever it means.

advice for conference-goers

It is a truth universally aknowledged that a young woman at a writer’s conference in possession of a diaper bag must be in need of a baby…or not.

Regardless of the urgings of one’s practical instincts, a diaper bag cannot adequately substitute for a tote bag at a literary conference.

Baudelaire would not be okay with the Hello Kitty motif; or, rather, he would be, but only after a fatal dose of laudanum. Would Blake, Wordsworth, Shakespeare or even, god forbid, Martin Amis, be okay with the idea that their expensively-Kinko’d handouts were stored in a compartment with both #1 and #2? I ask you, eh?

sorry I haven’t blogged

There are good reasons.