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Monthly Archives: January 2010
Walking Away
The Journey
One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting
their bad advice–
though the whole house
began to tremble
and you felt the old tug
at your ankles.
“Mend my life!”
each voice cried.
But you didn’t stop.
You knew what you had to do,
though the wind pried
with its stiff fingers
at the very foundations,
though their melancholy
was [...]
Punk Chick Meets Corporate Journalist
In The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Steig Larsson, Mikael Blomkvist, a journalist recently convicted of libel, partners with a ward of the state, Lisbeth, to find out what happened to the niece of one of Sweden’s richest families. What seems like an impossible case takes many twists and turns as Mikael and Lisbeth [...]
Stripper Talk
I’ve just finished the book Diablo Cody’s memoir, Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper. While there were times I was shocked, appalled and disgusted, I couldn’t put the book down. Cody is hilarious and her frank look at the the Minnesota stripper scene was hard to turn away from. I [...]
Demon Possession: an Everyday Occurrence