The wedding can best be summarized by our guests who filled out mad libs throughout the evening. In lieu of a live blog, I believe their combined words tell the tale:
After four years of dating, Darren finally skunked Wistar in Portugal. With the help of their ugly monkeys, Darren and Wistar finally married on December [...]
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We had a wedding and what a wedding it was
On being a writer and being in trouble
It turns out that if you want to be a published writer, you have to steel yourself for being in trouble all the time. You want everything you write to be true and good and universally loved, but sometimes what you write is false and bad and makes people hate you.
The sense of having done [...]
Death by port-a-potty: a story with a happy ending
This is something that happened to me today: I was driving home from Richmond with Abbey, daydreaming about wedding dresses, eating Junior Mints, naming my future children, when BAM! - the truck in front of us on I-64 lost part of the shit-shack it was towing and we swerved at high speed to avoid a [...]
The turtle frog spider picture - now with more sex appeal
When the bbf and I each posted the spider-sitting-on-top-of-the-frog-sitting-on-top-of-the-turtle-in-my-parents’-pool-filter photo on our individual websites back in August, we expected to receive a handful of comments like “Cute!” “Rad!” and “Aww.” We did not expect “Your photo inspired me to get a permanent tattoo.”
Aimee Pierson of California was so touched by the story of these interspecies [...]
Let me tell you what’s going on in the world
People are reacting to Obama’s victory.
People are making MFA Fiction programs the new International Affairs programs.
People are giving up their personal email accounts.
People are divorcing because of cyber affairs in Second Life.
People are interviewing ingenious 10-year-old girls who write books and ride scooters at Smart Girls Have More Fun.
People are feeding designer Kool-Aid to design [...]
Face calling
Now that I have a new computer and Gmail offers free video chat, my face can call your face. Our faces can literally communicate back and forth through cyberspace. I’m talking about Cyber Space Face. I’m talking about Future Stuff. Who invented this Cyber Space Face Future Stuff? And what was I doing while they [...]
The Virginia Film Festival is in my backyard eating all my popcorn
The Virginia Film Festival takes place in Charlottesville this weekend! Granted, it’s no Virginia Festival of the Book, but UVA has now thrown this party 21 times to tremendous acclaim. And the weekend promises to be as exciting as anything possibly can be without a nonstop parade of serious books and authors. Movie stars have [...]
Breezy Palomino calls out the liars
Of all my Murray cousins and their significant others, Nick and Alice have the best blog.
Scoff Magazine’s “Things That Are Never True“:
2) This is the perfect weather for my fleece jacket and river sandals. I just get so cold up top and hot down bottom.
Brooklyn hipster imitation is the highest form of flattery
I wanted to be supportive. I really did. The poster’s kind of cool, even if the women depicted look too scrawny and too bangly and too fashionable to compete with the likes of us. They’re also in the Break Arm Position.
But then I visited the Classy Ladies Arm Wrestling Society (CLAWS) Myspace page and the [...]
