June 29, 2005
Savagery
Best Savage Love quote of the week: "No one I know who's had a three-way with a sibling looks back on the incident with fondness."
June 17, 2005
Legal Guide for Bloggers
EFF, where I am spending part of my summer, just released its "Legal Guide for Bloggers," to help you evaluate those instances when you're uncertain whether or not that blog post about your boss' kinky habits will get you sued.
June 13, 2005
Burritos? From Boston?
*Real* Boston style burritos. I wasn't brave enough to try. Maybe they contain those baked beans? Wonderfully blurry cameraphone shot,though, considering how humid it was in Boston, that might just be humid haze.
June 05, 2005
The Last Town on Earth
Congrats to Tom, who just sold his first novel, "The Last Town on Earth." Here's the scoop from Publisher's Weekly:
Film scouts' ears perked right up upon hearing that agent Susan Golomb has a first novel by a new client on submission. Golomb, after all, represents Jonathan Franzen, whose The Corrections is a favorite among movie types. (Scott Rudin presciently acquired film rights to the manuscript, pre-Pulitzer and pre-Oprah smackdown.) So a few short hours after Thomas Mullen 's The Last Town on Earth was submitted to publishers, the manuscript magically appeared in film office inboxes across town. Mullen's novel is set in 1918 in a small mill town that tries to protect itself from the raging flu epidemic sweeping the U.S. by quarantining itself from the outside world. When a soldier enters the town and is shot dead by two local guards, it sets off a chain of tragic events. One scout compared it thematically to Scott Smith 's A Simple Plan (Knopf, 1993), another dark novel about a series of small decisions that quickly lead to chaos. CAA's Rich Green is handling film rights.
I can't wait to read the book, and then start the pool on who should play the cast. Go Tom!
June 02, 2005
processed food world
Mmmm, the real joy of good living. A Schlitz, a loaf of chopped ham, REAL American cheez . . . what a spread to impress your lady friend! Compliments of the Beauty Bar bathroom, SF.
