As we stood in line waiting to get into the venue housing last night’s John Irving reading, Sister #2 set out a few ground rules.
“One,” she said. “There will be no hugging. ”
There was more on the list, but I was too distracted by a nine-year-old wearing heavy makeup, falling off what can only be [...]
Posts Tagged: John Irving
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Oct 09
Answering the Googlers Questions XI: All Dawson’s all the time
Here’s what I’ve learned looking at this month’s logs, a lot of people are really concerned about what to wear to a Journey concert. Also, I could turn I Will Dare into a Dawson’s Creek blog and people would be happy (and so would I, for about 20 minutes)
How many kids does Marie Osmond have?
Eight [...]
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Sep 09
Spazzing out
Holy shit! Holy shit! Holy shit! HOLY SHIT!
John Irving is going to be reading in Minneapolis on November 9th. JOHN FUCKING IRVING. Longtime darling ones will understand the absolute joy this moment has inspired in me.
I’m so excited that I have lost all sense of decency and decorum and spent 10 minutes babbling on [...]
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Aug 09
Answering the Googlers’ Questions X: The return of a fan favorite
Since it’s been awhile. . . this is a feature on I Will Dare where we answer the questions that brought inquiring Googlers to our doorstep.
Is the road to hell is paved with adverbs?
Yes, yes it is. It’s also paved with that shitty Chuck Klosterman novel.
What should I wear to a Journey concert?
Whatever you [...]
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May 08
The Vonnegut of my dreams
There was a great flood. I think that maybe the Minnesota River had overflown its banks and flooded most of Shakopee. I had to jump from a plane with a parachute to get anywhere. When I got home, Kurt Vonnegut was sitting at the dining room table in Supergenius HQ. He was using my old [...]
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Mar 06
on this, the holiest of days, i give thanks for John Irving
today should probably a holy day. i should probably spend my time on my knees at the altar called my bookcase, light a few candles and pray. for today, is John Irving’s birthday.
people say you never forget your first love, and i think when it comes to literary love John Irving is my first. i [...]
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Aug 05
please, shut up about your penis already
based on the length (820 pages, i think), heft (800 pages weigh a lot), and the sheer number of times we hear about penises, i think John Irving’s new novel Until I Find You is an hommage to his own johnson. it is as though he wants to make it abundantly clear that he has [...]
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Aug 05
the will to carry on
somebody i know was up until 3 a.m. reading John Irving’s Until I Find You, making her incredibly sleepy and super bitchy today. rampant hormones are totally not helping them atter at all.
and though i’m totally not really digging the book all that much, i still cannot seem to put it down. damn you John [...]
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Jul 05
sometimes i’m a little ashamed of myself
laziness is definitely my strong suit, but today, today i was so lazy that i feel a little ashamed. here was my schedule.
9:30 – 10:30: wake up, check e-mail, listen to NPR
10:30 – 11:30: lay in bed reading john irving, practice
11:30 – 12:30: check e-mail, read ask metafilter, eat lunch, fill out new calendar
12:30 – [...]
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Jul 05
i couldn’t wait around, i couldn’t wait another second
it’s official. i have hit the wall. i’m washed up and out. i think it’s the past three weeks of 50-60 hour work weeks combined with not-relaxing weekends. i’m done. i need to crawl into bed and sleep for 100 years and then be awakened by a kiss from prince charming.
i can’t wait to [...]
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Jul 05
anticipating Irving
to keep my mind off the bitching/thinking/busyness of this week (and probably the next two), i’ve decided to focus all non-work braincells and energy on hoping that the new John Irving book Until I Find You doesn’t suck ass.
as i’ve said about 942 times, i love John Irving. his book A Prayer for Owen [...]
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Jul 05
a sly declaration of new classic status slipped into a list of old safe ones
late last week, Kelly laid down a challenge: “What do you consider to be the most ass kicking top, say, 11 books written, and here’s the challenge, in the last 20 years?”
this was not an easy task. not easy at all. i had to cull through all my books, look at copyright dates, try to [...]
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Jun 05
mmm, a saturday morning book meme to get the weekend back on track
kelly has asked me to take part in a fun little book meme. fun!
how many books do you own?
gee, by my best guess right now i have about 400 on the bookshelves. you can look at old pictures of my shelves from 2 years ago. plus theres the 100+ Sweet Valley High Books packed away [...]
