Monthly Archives: August 2011
30 Minutes Or Less
The gorilla is harmless. The bomb he is carrying is not. x The group of twentysomethings sitting in front us at 30 Minutes Or Less were, judging from their manner of laughter and general behavior, stoned. 30 Minutes Or Less is the … Continue reading
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Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children, Ransom Riggs
x I (Ben) heard about the new YA book Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children before I realized that I know the person who wrote it. Featuring a creepy levitating girl on the cover with more creepy, trompe l’oiel photographs throughout, … Continue reading
Friday Recommends: George Pelecanos
x If you’ve never read George Pelecanos, his new novel The Cut is a good place to start. It features a new Pelecanos character, Spero Lucas, but the setting is the same: Washington, D.C., where Pelecanos has set all seventeen … Continue reading
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Ill Fares The Land
x Mark Hoobler loaned me (Ben) Tony Judt’s Ill Fares The Land, and I’ve been reading it slowly, in bits and pieces before bed over the past several weeks. Judt, who died last year, makes an eloquent case for social … Continue reading
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That Ship Has Sailed, My Friend.
We have not done a Voreplay in some time. This is not because we now believe that rock ‘n roll is the devil’s music. We have something in the works, covering the (admittedly meager) (and by meager we mean number, … Continue reading
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You Mean Entertainment Weekly Wasn’t Telling The Truth?
Item! The Miami New Times recently released its list of the Top Ten Cheapest Celebrity Tippers. Guess who’s number five? For fun, we’ll redact his name from the following paragraph and see if you can still guess it! Xxxxxx Xxxxx, according … Continue reading
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A Truly Superlative Ice Cream
x We don’t typically do food reviews on this blog, but we’re going to make an exception for today’s post. The ice cream pictured above, Private Selection’s Denali Extreme Maximum Fudge Moose Tracks, currently resides in our freezer. If your … Continue reading
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A First-Rate Madness
x I (Ben) picked up Nassir Ghaemi’s book A First-Rate Madness after reading his op-ed in the New York Times last week. The premise is straightforward: Ghaemi, a professor of psychiatry at Tufts Medical Center, argues that mental illness may … Continue reading
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Scenes From A (Receding) Marriage
We celebrated our seventh anniversary yesterday. On her Facebook page, Erin wrote, “Seven years ago today my ‘something blue’ was royal blue eyeliner. Thanks, Ben Vore, for making me your wife in spite of some serious errors in judgement on my … Continue reading
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Friday Recommends: State Of Wonder, Ann Patchett
x A while back, I (Ben) promised a review of Ann Patchett’s State of Wonder. (I got sidetracked by some non-fiction accounts of life in the Amazon.) Several reviews of this novel have noted its nod to Heart of Darkness, … Continue reading
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