Monthly Archives: October 2011

May 2012

• I feel better than James Brown
• R.I.P. Duck Dunn, 1941-2012
• Hair of the blog
• Don't give up
• Of hairballs and long hauls
• In vivo veritas...or something

April 2012

• I Shall Be Released

March 2012

• Mother and Child Reunion
• Murakami on the Shore
• "And you're ugly too"

February 2012

• Master of all you survey
• Open season
• Phenotype of the day

January 2012

• Good Evening, Mr. and Mrs. America...

December 2011

• The Ethication of Little Jew
• "Something genetic"
• A conversation with writer and troublemaker Carl Elliott, Part II
• A conversation with writer and troublemaker Carl Elliott, Part I

November 2011

• You never call
• Requiescat in pace
• Things we said today
• Elegant...simple...
• All Atwitter II: Seth Mnookin
• "Star by Star"
• Here is a Human Being redux
• Programming note: All atwitter

October 2011

• Prime number
• Turn and face the strange
• I gotta have faith
• Dear Sir or Madam will you read my book
• I suppose it beats a trip to the DMV
• Old and in the way
• The soft parade
• "To inform and surprise"
• But can we still be friends?

September 2011

• Personal Germanics
• Cover me
• Same time next year?

August 2011

• Garage band
• I'm looking through you
• Talk straight
• Away on cookie business...
• Station to Cetacean

July 2011

• Of cabbages and kings
• Pod people
• And the living is easy
• I can see for miles

May 2011

• Rapturous
• Requiescat in pace, Derek

April 2011

• Somewhere in the swamps of Jersey
• Crazy train
• Hybrid [cough] vigor
• Quote of the day
• You're a big girl now
• If you want to destroy my sweater
• Oompa Loompas Sequence DNA, Control Legos and the Matrix

March 2011

• Phenotype of the day
• Glass Onion
• Hallelujah
• I'm so tired, I haven't slept a wink
• Making movies

February 2011

• Ten years after
• Got to Give it Up...

January 2011

• Therapy
• A punim for radio
• Take out some insurance
• Sugar on the floor
• I me mine
• This Year

December 2010

• The sugar plums are rancid
• Dog gone
• You may already be a winner, or: Something is ROTTen in the state of Dogmark
• Guess the breeds, win a book
• I wanna be your dog, Part II, or: Guess the breeds, win a book--the preamble
• "Are you excited to learn the weird personal habits of every single person in the library?"
• "I think my heart just stopped"
• No right of mine

November 2010

• My front pages
• Thanksgiving
• Life on the road
• Here, there and everywhere
• Newspaper taxis appear on the shore
• I wanna be your dog, Part I
• A story in your voice
• Things we said today

October 2010

• It's Nature's way
• You complete me
• Don't let me be misunderstood
• Waiting on a friend
• The one on the right...is on the left
• Keep yourself alive
• But I don't feel afraid
• In the crowd
• Too soon gone
• You don't have to say you love me...

September 2010

• Ball of confusion
• Too Too Too Fast
• Who are you, Part II
• Who are you, Part I
• Theirs is to win
• The shape of things
• Can't lose what you never had
• Meet the elements
• Wok on
• Many rivers to cross
• Use me
• Everyday I write the book
• The New Kid
• What is Life
• Gimme back my bullets
• No easy way to be free
• Everyday I get in the queue
• Come on get happy
• The ticker tape feeds the night
• Hello! Hooray!