December 2011
11 posts
I was trying to find the exact wording of Dolly Parton’s “But we always go see the Fahr-WERRKS” line in “Steel Magnolias” because I can’t seem to stop saying it out loud since my most recent viewing this week, and I guess this is for hard core “Steel” fans only, but the IMDB trivia page has gotten full of stuff! Like, there’s a Steel Magnolias...
On What the Charlotte Airport Can Do to Itself
Tomorrow at this exact time I will be at Charlotte Douglas International airport, and I will be in a hurry to get from one gate to another, and blocking my way will be great gobs of humanity using the only between-gate transportation offered at the Charlotte airport: a series of narrow conveyor belt people movers. These people (who run the entire gamut of perceived wealth, class, race, creed, body...
“I’d heard his stuff was good, but I’d never read it myself, and because I’m a suspicious and distrusting person, I didn’t take its goodness on faith. Then I picked up The Fault in Our Stars. I am totally devastated by this book. I cried when I read it, and I never cry. You don’t want to throw around phrases like “instant classic,” but I can see this book sitting next to The Catcher in the...
