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Books Are Pretty: November 2005
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Friday, November 04, 2005. DeLisle is one of the few North Americans to view this closed country first hand, and interspersed between his many bits of black humor - complaints about the coffee (so horrible! The Chinese maid that wakes him up every morning at seven to give him water, no matter how many times he tells her he doesn't want to be disturbed, and North Korea's miserable version of ice cream, are the tension-making moments that show how far down the rabbit hole he had fallen. There's a question ...
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Books Are Pretty: June 2006
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Monday, June 26, 2006. Dinner and a Show. Last week I called Steve after a long day toiling away in the salt mines at Big Machine and asked him if he and the kids wanted to meet me at Heaven on Seven. To use the last gift certificate we had. Originally we'd gotten our hands on four of them, and now we were going to meet for one last meal of crabcakes and gumbo before our free ride ended. Visit One: I will touch each bottle of hot sauce on the wall. At about this time, Alex and Chris asked if they could w...
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Books Are Pretty: July 2005
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Saturday, July 23, 2005. Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! A bus driver is taking a break, and asks your child to watch the bus for him. "Whatever you do," he warns, "Don't let the pigeon drive the bus! As soon as he leaves, the pigeon pops up and the begging begins, starting with polite wheedling and finishing in a full blown toddler temper tantrum. Like Kevin Henke, author and Emmy-winning. Writer Mo Willems has a gift for creating excellent children's books. Pigeon. Posted by flea at 8:37 AM. I'd li...
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Mimilou: March 2005
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Tuesday, March 29, 2005. Don't Send in the Clowns. So we went for a walk after dinner tonight, taking advantage of what had been a relatively mild day but by the time we embarked on our walk had become quite chilly and not nearly as pleasant as I had envisioned. Well, THAT was certainly a lot of past-perfect tense in one sentence, wasn't it? As we passed this one house on our street that suffers the misfortune of having a large, ugly grate plunked into the front of its yard, Sean paused. "What's that?
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Books Are Pretty: June 2005
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Wednesday, June 29, 2005. We Need To Talk About Kevin. For three years, Steve and I have gone to psychiatrist after psychologist, parenting class after special ed class, occupational therapy after social therapy. Short of medication, which is looming in the horizon, I think we have tried everything there is to try in order to answer the question of what to do with Alex. Therapeutic CDs, gross motor skill work, joint compression, the hug machine. My name is Alex. Do you want to play? I didn't recognize it...
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Books Are Pretty: April 2006
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Sunday, April 30, 2006. Hooway for Wodney Wat! When I was eighteen and doing summer stock in North Carolina, a bunch of us spent one of our days off hiking the Appalachian Trail. We stopped by a waterfall to take a break, and as we watched the water spill over the cliff and dash down to the churning pool below, Joanne gasped. Her eyes pinwheeled toward the rushing water for several minutes. "Whoa," she whispered. "Whoa.". Miss Fuzzleworth asked, "What's 2 2? They felt very, very uncomfortable.*. It was a...
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Books Are Pretty: August 2005
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Wednesday, August 17, 2005. Ten Apples Up On Top. I'm probably way too close to this Dr. Seuss classic to be able to review it impartially.(the pseudonym he uses here, Theo Le Sieg, was used when he wrote the text but did not create the accompanying illustrations. "Le Sieg" is "Geisel," Seuss' real name, backwards.). Remember how those animals got those apples to balance on their heads like that? That was crazy stuff! And they drank milk out of glass bottles with the apples on their heads! It seemed like...
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Books Are Pretty: March 2006
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Friday, March 31, 2006. Manstealing for Fat Girls. Let's talk, at long last, about rainbow parties. In 2004, while giving a presentation at a sex toy party for a women's group in a tony northern suburb, the attendees grilled me pretty hard on what the young ladies are doing these days. Are they, like Oprah says, tossing salads in study hall and running cherry red lipstick over their puckers before lining up to give blowjobs in the bathroom? What's different about kids today is they live in a world with h...
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Books Are Pretty: October 2005
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Monday, October 31, 2005. Charlie Parker Played Bebop. He grabbed a book off his bookshelf and handed it to me. He chirped. "Here, Mommy, read this book now! And he shot off downstairs into the kitchen, an area off-limits to my children and if I had my way, off-limits to my husband, too, because FOR THE LOVE OF GOD I WANT ONE PLACE IN THE WORLD THAT BELONGS ONLY TO ME. The book he chose to distract me with was Chris Raschka's Charlie Parker Played Bebop. Never leave your cat alone! Downstairs, I heard th...
