>Chelsey reviews the new Alice in Wonderland.
>Bring your own mushrooms
>When I was a lad,
>Framed
>I Blame America
>Happy Birthday, Judy!
>Martha told me she heard this morning on “Writer’s Almanac” that today is Judith Krantz’s birthday. (I guess there is hope for NPR.) There are lots of writers I admire, respect, enjoy, but Krantz is the one I love the most. It’s not the sex and clothes (although she writes well about both) but the [...]
>Another Phone Call from the Past
>I realized a forty-year-old dream last night when we went to see a community theater production of Hair. The Rent of its day–although far more transgressive–Hair was the Big Thing for little show-tune freaks, given even more appeal by the fact that we had to listen to the record (which was all we knew of [...]
>"Crap, here comes Teacher!"
>In the comments on the earlier post about dueling reviews, `h wrote: Speaking of the good stick. There’s something I’d like you to measure — heavy handed instruction — when an author sticks something into the text that clearly doesn’t fit in order to model some lesson– girls are just as smart as boys, or [...]

