Archive for March, 2007
Friday, March 30th, 2007
Me Lie Pretty One Day
In mid March I wrote about the David Sedaris book I bought, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim. I had read Me Talk Pretty One Day and was excited to read the newer book.
The jacket of the “Corduroy” book claims that Sedaris “lifts the corner of ordinary life, revealing the absurdity below its surface.” […]
No Comments » - Posted in Pop Culture by Steven Gardner
Saturday, March 24th, 2007
Apollo Rises
Click on the link to see a little ditty about our boy Apollo. Do it soon before the copyright cops get wind.
4 Comments » - Posted in Family by Steven Gardner
Saturday, March 17th, 2007
Let Anna Be Right About This
Anna Quindlen’s first sentence in her latest Newsweek column mentions Ann Coulter, only in saying it is not a column about her.
This is not a column about Ann Coulter. Otherwise it would be irrelevant. When the conservative lounge act used an anti-gay slur to refer to John Edwards while speaking to a Republican gathering, she […]
4 Comments » - Posted in Politics by Steven Gardner
Thursday, March 15th, 2007
Gore in the Details
In 2000 I saw a documentary about Al Gore, not by him. It recounted pretty much the following story by John C. Warnecke, former Gore friend and co-worker at the Nashville Tennessean. The story was published in Salon.
Al was putting out a story, and I helped him. In 1988, when Douglas Ginsberg withdrew his nomination […]
No Comments » - Posted in News, Politics by Steven Gardner
Tuesday, March 13th, 2007
Sedarithon
A couple years ago my wife found a book at the dollar store and bought it for me. She’s done it before and usually the books are selling for a dollar for a pretty good reason, i.e. a publisher put out a book that got a lot more faith than it deserved. I don’t know […]
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Tuesday, March 13th, 2007
Lift Off of Apollo
Our boy was born Thursday a 6:44 a.m. His name is Apollo Alexander Gardner, appropriate given that he came into the world weighing a wee bit less than 12 pounds.
It will one day seem absolutely astounding that we ever lived without Apollo, the same way it seems about Sarah and Sascha.
For now, though, his presence […]