I hated the lost colony; in second grade, we were doing American History, and they said, We don't know what happened to them. That drove me nuts. That lost colony drove me crazy.
From Sarah Vowell
I seem to have no problem revealing my crush on the man who murdered Lincoln.
In death, you get upgraded into a saint no matter how much people hated you in life.
Not that I want the current president killed. I will, for the record and for the FBI agent assigned to read this and make sure I mean no harm, clearly state that while I am obsessed with death, I am against it.
Assassins and presidents invite the same basic question: Just who do you think you are?
I didn't come from any kind of academic background, but I lived in a college town and I knew people who weren't without pretense. There was this idea in the town that if something was European it would be good.
I get younger people who watch Conan or The Daily Show, but before that it was mostly people who knew me from public radio. Those people are kind of old.
I loved that these two guys argued with each other as if movies actually mattered. Nobody I knew talked about movies that way, but Siskel and Ebert took each movie as it came and talked about whether it was a success on its own terms.
I was a big Nancy Drew reader. Nancy figures it out. Case closed.
I'm a big fan of editing and keeping only the interesting bits in.
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