It's all here--fast-kicking, low scoring, and ties? You bet!*Well, well, well. I suppose we shouldn't be surprised. I personally watched the Lakers get served, until it got too hot to sit in my living room any longer. So I retired to my air-conditioned bedroom where I finally got down to perusing the New Yorker summer fiction issue. Can someone explain to me why Alice Munro has not one, but three stories? (NB: There's also a few "Holiday" pieces, one by TC Boyle and another by my future husband Junot Diaz.) Three stories? What gives, Deb? I know that hating on Alice is like hating on Santa Claus, but c'mon. Enough with the steadfast midcentury Canadian matrons already. This morning I was in Duane Reade buying bandaids and Rough Boy by ZZ Top began to play over the loudspeaker. There are some songs I just wish would've disappeared into the ether right after they were released. I don't want to know about the sensual stylings of middle-aged bearded men. I bet Alice Munro LOVES ZZ Top. * TV Announcer: You'll see all your favorite soccer stars. Like Ariaga! Ariaga II! Bariaga! Aruglia! And Pizzoza! Posted by Dana at 09:18 AM
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Shit from an Old NotebookI bet Alice Munro LOVES ZZ Top.
So do I. But "Rough Boy" is a fuckin' hideous song. But since they did "Jesus Just Left Chicago" they are forgiven.
I don't want to know about the sensual stylings of middle-aged bearded men.
Rock and Roll is all about the sensual stylings of bearded middle aged men. Elvis Costello once said that the reason he loved The Band was "because they had beards."
Posted by: jonmc at June 16, 2004 10:02 AMStrange... I didn't get the New Yorker Summer Fiction issue.
What arrived in my mailbox was the New Yorker Bulky-Ad-Inserts-From-Hell issue.
Posted by: Maximus at June 16, 2004 01:25 PMWhile you're at it, stop hating on the Lakers already. We've suffered enough!
Posted by: j-go at June 16, 2004 01:39 PMI don't think Junot likes vagina.
Posted by: TLL at June 16, 2004 02:42 PMI love the Band and ZZ Top, but I am sorely disappointed in the Lakers. Maybe they need to grow some beards.
Posted by: Mrs. Kennedy at June 16, 2004 03:01 PMJunot likes vagina plus, I think.
Has anyone seen Mrs. Kennedy and Alice Munro in the same room? Anyone?
Posted by: dana at June 16, 2004 03:36 PMvagina plus?
Isn't that the new vitamin for hermaphrodites from One-A-Day?
Posted by: jonmc at June 16, 2004 04:01 PMI cannot stand fully 95% of the fiction that the New Yorker publishes. (And this issue was a general snoozefest all round.)
Yes, I'm aware that means I'll never be a litblogger.
Posted by: Vidiot at June 17, 2004 12:33 AMYou're just as well. They molest collies.
Posted by: dong resin at June 17, 2004 09:07 AMBest short review I've ever heard:
"Junie wrote a book? All he ever did in college was play Nintendo."
Posted by: alkali at June 17, 2004 07:55 PMThere's hope for me yet, then. (With my writing career, not my marriage to JD.)
Posted by: dana at June 18, 2004 09:28 AM