Got the current issue of Tampa Review in the mail today. It’s in hardcover! There’s an essay in there taken from the opening chapter of The Authentic Animal, about a dead pet canary that becomes a museum relic. Other essays therein by Douglas Danoff, Jack E. Fernandez, and Gary Fincke. Fiction by Heather Brittain Bergstrom, [...]
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Have you noticed? Pizza places have now decided, what? because of “the economy”?, to start tacking a delivery fee on to ordering a pizza. Here’s the breakdown: Papa John’s = $1.90 Domino’s = $1.75 Pizza Hut = $2.41 Is anyone else outraged? Do we still have to tip?
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N & I have been ill-ish and have wanted these past few evenings to do nothing but lie on the sofa with chicken soup and the DVR, and so last night despite a backlog that built up while we were in N.C., and despite NBC’s Thursday night of premieres (shame on you, NBC, for holding [...]
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This weekend N & I were in Oak Island, N.C., where my sister got married. I did the ceremony. You may as well prepare for a long post on all this. It was, maybe, a once-in-a-lifetime event: getting to the write the words that people listen to while they watch a couple ceremonially join their [...]
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Tomorrow I fly to go marry my sister. To, that is, her boyfriend.
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For 2010, I hope to be moving onward, and the Nebraska State Fair will be doing the same. I to who knows where. The Fair to Grand Island. Maybe I’ll be in Grand Island in a year’s time, but it seems unlikely. We honor its passing from Lincoln the way we honored Pee Wee’s.
