Philadelphia author Dinah Bucholz adapts recipes from children’s classics
From the AV Club, November 28, 2012.
This article was inspired by my insane desire to try Turkish Delight when I was a child, because C.S. Lewis made it sound so good. I tried it a couple years ago. It is disgusting.
So, let me get this straight: You named your children’s apparel company after a novel that is famous for its portrayals of physical, verbal and sexual abuse, the death of a child via arsenic poisoning and, of course, a couple counts of incest?
Cute clothes, though.
Actor Andrew McCarthy created 2nd career as a travel writer
From the Daily News, Oct. 1, 2012.
Word the wise: Don’t ask former Brat Packers about their days as Brat Packers when doing “second career” interviews. They do not like it.
Also, he pulled something, which I really freaking hate: We were doing this over the phone (so he has no idea what I look like), I was asking informed questions and he made reference to my age (as in, “…before you were born.”) It’s patronizing and I hate it more than everything.
From the Daily News, March 13, 2012.
Oh man, the sheer amount of underhanded racism I’ve heard this morning is mind-boggling. I’ll post the most racist e-mails later!
From the Daily News, February 28, 2012.
Of Salman Rushdie, who once gave him a terrible review in the New York Times, he says: “That flaccid fuckhead. He was detestable. I called up the Ayatollah, nobody knows that.” Roald Dahl: “The cruelty in his books is off-putting. Scary guy. I know he’s very popular but what’s nice about this guy? He’s dead, that’s what’s nice about him.” Stephen King: “Bullshit.” Gwyneth Paltrow: “I can’t stand her.
