March 2010
32 posts
Atwood in the Twittersphere
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Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood, tweeting aboard the Queen Mary 2, August 2009
A long time ago—less than a year ago in fact, but time goes all stretchy in the Twittersphere, just as it does in those folksongs in which the hero spends a night with the Queen of Faerie and then returns to find that a hundred years have passed and all his friends are dead…. Where was I?
Oh yes. A long time...
The leak in my ceiling returned, the subway is flooded and even the bus leaked. Welcome to Gotham, city of ducks.
Can you explain new health care bill in 10... →
Click on the query above and you’ll be whisked away to the Curious Capitalist page at TIME.com where the TIME Financial Toolkit podcast lives….we asked Kate Pickert, one of their crackerjack health care reporters, to explain it all to us in 10 minutes. And she did. Go ahead, give a listen. You’ll understand the bill, you’ll be a better citizen and you can annoy your...
I am fighting winter not with swords but with daffodils. Take that, March!
RT @ebertchicago: “For every atom belonging to me, as good belongs to you.” Walt Whitman died this day in 1892. http://j.mp/9X02rk
RT @andevers: Suffragettes had matching power rings: http://www.georgianjewelry.com/items/show/12169-scarce-early-20th-c-suffragette-ring
Design Hunting: Two-Story Windows, a New Take on... →
Here is the link to Wendy’s blog Design Hunting…..she always has a good eye
Upstairs at the Square: Care Bears on Fire and... →
Feeling down? Just click on the headline above and you’ll get our show with Care Bears on Fire and Blake Nelson…..if you were ever a 13-year-old girl or had one in your life or read Savvy magazine or the novel “Girl”….this is the show for you.
An avarice for light: The New York Times looks at... →
Sometimes I actually forget that the New York Times did a video of my apartment, part of a profile they did on me for their “Habitat” series in the Real Estate section. My narration of this video would be different these days; four years ago, you can still hear the culture shock in my voice at the move from Minnesota to Manhattan. I treasure that gap, though, and the person who saw New...
Just saw my crush Oliver Platt on street in NYC, sporting his usual rumpled charm., emphasis on rumpled. Wanted to rebutton his shirt.
It’s spring! Tulip trees are in bloom in the garden at Jefferson Library in the Village; flats of pansies for sale at greenmarket. #happy
RT @parisreview: You always want the detail that you can’t explain. – Robert Lowell http://bit.ly/co2umR
RT @RebeccaSkloot: “Care for the sick, serenity for the fearful” - LBJ on Medicare, 1966. http://bit.ly/bfQmla via @stevesilberman
RT @poniewozik: #hcr passes. NOW TO IMPOSE THE METRIC SYSTEM.
I have one pre-existing condition that remains: I’m a loud-mouthed female…#hcr
“To every unsung American who took the time to write out a letter or type out an email, your voice has been heard.”’
Gosh, I’ll miss being a pre-existing condition …..not #hcr
RT @GreatDismal: RT @SamSeder: This is weird: it’s almost like Democrats won a huge majority in both houses, plus the Presidency in a ne …
In the heartland for Mom care. She’s fine now but loved her surgery prep: cleaned the oven and wrote her own obit.
“The emotional stakes a memoirist bets with could not be higher, and it’s...”
– Mary Karr, interview in Winter 2009 issue of Paris Review
Streets near Hudson flooded and now my ceiling is leaking: theme music tonite is plunk-plunk-plunk in bucket. Suddenly nostalgic for snow.
RT @LaNewYorkaise: What happens when Virginia Woolf and Marguerite Duras make dinner together? Irina Brook’s “La Vie Matérielle” http:// …
My eclectic career
If you click on the headline below this post, you’ll be directed to the latest edition of the podcast I host for TIME.com; it’s one of my favorite gigs. Every week, we take the financial news and try to make it accessible. Can you imagine a better time to try and make sense of what subprime lending really is? or what Option ARMS could do to the housing market again? And, really, if...
Time Financial Toolkit: Subprime Lending — It's... →
Time Financial Toolkit podcast for week of March 11, 2010 features Stephen Gandel on why subprime lending will always be with us PLUS John Curran on the latest economic indicators. Did you know the stock market was up 68 percent from a year ago? Yeah, me neither.
Rundown on the 21st Century Runaways
If you didn’t make it to our Upstairs show on Thursday with Care Bears on Fire and Blake Nelson, there is still hope: it’ll be up soon on the Barnes and Noble Studio page, probably on Monday or Tuesday. Watch for one of my favorite moments, when I ask the band what school is like for them. You’d think, after all, that coming back to 9th or 10th grade after performing at SXSW,...
Your daily dose of happiness right here →
I’m doing an Upstairs show this Thursday with Care Bears on Fire and this is video for their single “Everybody Else.” I swear if I had a band when I was 13, I would have been a lot less moody. Maybe you too?
Show is Thursday March 11th Union Square Barnes and Noble 7 p.m. FREE with Care Bears and YA author-god Blake Nelson. It’s gonna be good.