News

I have been very slow and slothlike in updating the blog, and for this I blame a trip to Cape Cod, way too much country daintzing at my friend’s wedding and lots and lots expensive jar tuna with cornichons. HOWEVER. First of all, you can see that my events page has been updated with stuff coming up in ENGLEWOOD, NJ, BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, and MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN. It will soon be updated with events in CHICAGO, ILLINOIS and NEW ORLEANS, ON THE BAYOU.

I also want to draw your attention to this recent Babble.com interview with the lovely Aimee Pohl. She used ALL MY BEST QUOTES:

You have written a number of books in the Sweet Valley High series. Would you recommend that series for young girls?

Well, I certainly had fun reading it as a girl. I think sometimes series like that are useful to let you know your culture’s preoccupations, as long as you don’t completely absorb them and feel like you have to walk around being a size six and wearing a gold Laveliere necklace. They’re like Cliffs Notes for the subconscious of your particular society and I think kids pick up on how true and untrue they are way more than you would think. I think a lot of this terror over Twilight is just a reflection of how stupid we think girls are, like, “Girls are very stupid. God knows what will happen if they read something stupid!” It’s like they’re all dangling on the precipice of idiocy, or something. But they get it. They have fun with trash, just like we do.

I really want to know why that photo says “5-minute timeout.” I’m sure I deserved one.