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[mr_bad_example]

List Of People I'd Like To Bring Home, Seat At The Kitchen Table Such That Their Feet Don't Touch The Ground, And Feed Cookies (non-inclusive)

1. Patton Oswalt


2. Kaki King


3. Sarah Vowell

We saw the aforementioned Ms. Vowell's reading at the U of M Bookstore this evening. It was every bit as hilarious as I thought it would be. I definitely need to pick up her new book. She went around the country to sites connected with the assassinations of Presidents Lincoln, Garfield, and McKinley basically as a vacation. What's not to like about that?

In the book (and this is one of the sections she read), she mentions the Oneida Community. Apparently, it started out as a Christian free-love commune, then went into the business of making dinnerware. That bit of knowledge is going to make my next trip to the outlet mall very interesting indeed.

Comments

[slit.livejournal.com]

Oh my god. My car broke down in Oneida last year and I had the BEST TIME waiting for it to be fixed (24 hours; had to sleep in it). I asked people about housing prices I liked it so much. If the car didn't end up running I was going to stay there forever.

[kleric.livejournal.com]

Hah! I heard Ms. Vowell on the Current last night while driving home.
And then I think I dreamt about her last night, she had a huge headdress/hairpiece kinda thing on, with wicker in it and stuff, almost like a samurai's helmet. And she was lecturing me on something, I don't even remember what.