January 2011
8 posts
tesslynch:
ELO — do ya
Glass raised…
December 2010
5 posts
The Dud Avocado
If ever I find myself becoming too dismal about things, I just pick up Elaine Dundy’s The Dud Avocado and read a random passage. If you haven’t read this book then go out and buy it now. Dundy’s writing is funny without being crude—snappy yet completely graceful. There isn’t one boring sentence in the whole book. This for me is the mark of a great novel: when every passage...
Weeknight excursion
7-Eleven at midnight. A crackhead is holding open her black purse and dropping in bags of 99 cent gummies while she sucks on a lollipop and jerks her head around to see if anyone is watching. Everyone is watching. The girl at the register eyes the woman while she counts out change for the man in front of me: two, four, six dollars in change. Will she say something? What would she even say? Stop...