4 posts from July 2007

This article from last week's NYT is a love song to British chocolate. A love song I often sing to anyone who will listen. Now send me your Aero bars, monarchists. Holla!

I was at Target yesterday, buying Grape Nuts and waiting patiently for the Libertine stuff to arrive, when I realized the Great Summer Switch had happened. You know the one--suddenly the garden and barbecue aisles become devoted to crayons and backpacks, and everything is all about school supplies and Fall and things in which one can store said school supplies. While I am a little upset about summer being so cruelly snatched from those who can enjoy it most (school-age children and teachers), I have to confess a deep dark dorky secret: I love back-to-school shopping. I have not lived in a dorm room for ages, yet I needed to check out all of Target's offerings for dorm residents, at some points wondering how I could work items like a hot pink laundry basket into my own home.

I don't do nearly as much damage in the garden and barbecue aisles.

From an email received earlier on the subject of my (other) future husband, Joe Pernice:

Primarily known as a recording artist, Joe wrote the novella Meat is Murder for Continuum Books' 33 1/3 series in 2003.  That book remains one of the bestselling pieces in that series, and Joe is working with Neal Huff, an actor who appears regularly on HBO's The Wire, on the Meat is Murder screenplay.  Again, he is not forthcoming on when that project might see the light of day.  He also previously published a volume of poetry called Two Blind Pigeons, on his own Ashmont Books imprint.  That remains the bestselling (only) piece on Ashmont Books.

"The Wire" is connected to The Indie Rock and I didn't even know it. Consider my mind blown.