Carnegie, Parents, and the Joy of Libraries
SLIGHTLY OFF THE MARK When my parents first married, they were too poor to go out much. So when the local comic book shops put the older inventory on sale they’d buy a stack, […]
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Unicorn Bites 4/21/14
It’s weird how when a woman says, “It’s up to you, honey,” it sounds exactly like “Read my mind or die, motherfucker.” — Exploding Unicorn (@XplodingUnicorn) April 21, 2014 The worst places of no return: […]
Unicorn Bites 4/19/14
Me: I won the donut-eating contest Boss: It wasn’t a contest. It was just a box of donuts. For everyone. And you ate them all Me: Loser — Exploding Unicorn (@XplodingUnicorn) April 19, 2014 Wife: […]
Older Brothers Behaving Badly
I was asked recently, “What story had the biggest impact on me when I was a child.” My response was: My older brothers made me read a story when I was in second or third grade, […]
Dumb and Dumber 2014 (Not the Movie – It’s Us)
According to the Knowledge Doubling Curve up until the year 1900 human knowledge doubled roughly every century. By the time WWII rolled around collective human knowledge was estimated to double about every 25 years. Today, […]
Get Some Talking Vaginas in Your Life
OMG, did someone say “vaginas”? Okay, you can all get that horrified look of “Oh no, she didn’t just say that word.” Actually, I’ve been saying it a lot, lately, because my alter ego has […]
OVERMAN IN PASADENA! SUNDAY 11/25, 2PM!
EAST SIDE PEEPS! PEEL YOURSELVES AWAY FROM YOUR LEFTOVER TURKEY TO GIT YOU SOME OVERMAN! IN ADDITION TO THIS BEING THE PERFECT STOCKING STUFFER, THE AUTHOR WILL BE THERE, READING AND SIGNING YOUR POST-THANKSGIVING TREAT. […]
Happy Bloomsday!!!
This is the first year that I am happy to celebrate Bloomsday, the longest day in literary history. If you didn’t know, June 16th, 1904 was the day James Joyce chose to follow the main […]