Daily Archives: August 12, 2010
I Heart Scott Pilgrim
Posted on August 12, 2010 18 Comments
As I sit down to write these words, I just got home from an advance screening of Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. Given that Scott Pilgrim is a) a movie, b) based on a comic I love by Bryan Lee O’Malley, and is c) steeped in rock ‘n’ roll, I expect you can probably guess […]
Oh, peaches! Oh, woe!
Posted on August 12, 2010 110 Comments
Let me talk to you about peaches. See, I grew up in North Carolina and every summer we’d drive to TN to visit my grandmothers with occasional visits to Georgia. In the summer, the peaches were cheap and splendid. You’d buy them by the side of the road where they’d just come off the tree […]
The Big Idea: Zoe Ferraris
Posted on August 12, 2010 9 Comments
It’s well known that one of the best ways to get someone to do something is to tell them that they shouldn’t do it. In the case of author Zoe Ferraris, the thing she was told she shouldn’t do is write about a particular character — one whose origins are outside the usual experience of […]
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