archives for Wednesday 12 July 2006
best of craigslist
Wednesday 12 July 2006 | I like a cookie
“Postings may be explicitly sexual, scatalogical, offensive, graphic, tasteless, and/or not funny.” Excellent! And in them, people may offer you one or two free pianos. Gosh, we’d love a free piano (I like a cookie!) but unfortunately the distance involved would prove prohibitive. The cross-country distance, that is—not the distance from dangling second-floor piano to [...]
unipolar depression crash diet
Wednesday 12 July 2006 | I like a cookie
Well, anyway, at least it means we can once again wear the size 5 Calvins which we haven’t even been able to button for months and months now. And you know what that means: laundry can be postponed at least another day!
read ‘unipolar depression crash diet’
la nostalgie
Wednesday 12 July 2006 | I like a cookie
Whilst reminiscing all over the Olsson’s website, whom should we come across but Joe Murphy, on whom we used to have a massive crush about a decade ago and who’s now head buyer. His mugshot may seem unprepossessing, but his intelligence was wide-ranging yet gamine—and notice that his pick for this week is Absalom, Absalom; [...]
what once was lost is found
Wednesday 12 July 2006 | I like a cookie
Thanks to the encyclopedic knowledge, generous assistance and quite possibly purple-caped superhuman abilities of Powells graphic novel authority Chris Bolton, the Unnarrator is once again in possession of a title she thought irretrievably lost. Tale of woe, as related to Powells: In the winter of 1998 I was managing editor of a magazine which will [...]
