I am operating on a prepossessing paucity of sleep and still have many things to do today. So things may be quiet on this end, at least for today. However, two more podcasts will be unleashed tonight. There will also be dancing bears, if I play my cards right.
Molly Ivins is Gone
I’m speechless. I can’t imagine a world without a Molly Ivins newspaper column. Hopefully, I can serve up some kind of tribute once I digest this terrible news.
This Explains Everything About Hemingway
Silverblatt’s Scripted Pathos?
Escapegrace: “Anyway…at one point, Silverblatt recounted the interviews he had conducted earlier in the week – Mailer on The Castle in the Forest and Dave Eggers on What is the What – and seemed unexpectedly overcome with emotion at the state of the world depicted in the three novels. I don’t think the pathos was necessarily scripted and I was sort of touched.”
Speculating Upon Gasps
Jonathan Ames: “On the oral-sex front, I then made a concerted effort to lick the labia, which was something I’ve been guilty of neglecting in the past, and again the results were quite good. I also plunged my middle digit in about two inches, counting off the distance with my finger along the inside of the young lady’s vagina the way you march out the steps between your car and a fire-hydrant. I may have actually located the G-spot, if I’m to judge by the gasps of pleasure that were elicited.”