video diary: german invasion
January 15th, 2008
My memoir Fun Home was just published in Germany, and a German television program decided they wanted to interview me–must be the slow season there. So the director flew over from Cologne, and the cameramen came up from NYC to film me for a day last week.
You might think it would be exciting to have a camera crew filming you all day. But based on my small amount of experience in such matters, I knew it would be excruciatingly boring. I didn’t know it would also be windy and rainy. To entertain myself while they fiddled with their equipment, I made my own short documentary of the process.
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coupla plugs
January 10th, 2008
For an album by my bro and a book by my pal Ellen Forney. Read the rest of this entry »
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DTWOF episode #519
January 8th, 2008
What’s a pro-war lesbian to do? Cynthia throws her hat in the ring…then immediately withdraws it. Read the rest of this entry »
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procrastination
January 6th, 2008
I’m reading a biography of William James. This morning I read a passage where James describes how he prepared for his 12pm class on Logic and Psychology.
I know a person who will poke the fire, set chairs straight, pick dust specks from the floor, Read the rest of this entry »
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photo-cartoon contest under construction
January 3rd, 2008
Remember how I was going to make a cartoon from the photos you submitted? This isn’t the real cartoon, it’s just one I started playing around with because I received such a surfeit of Moes. But this Read the rest of this entry »
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Heights and Depths
December 31st, 2007
Last night I put up a video diary entry about my day, but I just took it down because it showed my plumber and I didn’t have her permission to broadcast her all over YouTube. Here’s a synopsis of the movie, though, in case you’re interested in following the ensuing comments.
Yesterday began in a rather glamorous way. I received copies of the Portuguese edition of my memoir Fun Home in the mail. Then the UPS guy brought a box of fancy truffles from my lecture agent. These were all kinds of weird flavors like dark chocolate with ginger, wasabi, and black sesame seeds. Then things suddenly took a turn for the prosaic when the plumber arrived to auger out my clogged drains. There was all this cool noisy footage of her working the snake down into the black sludge. Then we cut away briefly to my cat, who is grooming her nether regions. I ask her how much she thinks the plumber will cost. The last shot is of my bill, for $380.
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No, as a matter of fact I don’t have a life.
December 25th, 2007
Here’s what I’ve spent my Christmas doing so far: creating a consumer product review video for you of this cat toy I bought yesterday.
Warning, it’s completely laced with profanity.
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DTWOF episode #518
December 25th, 2007
Merry Christmas! Read the rest of this entry »
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Xmas mishmash
December 24th, 2007
1. Hats & Wind
The most radiant and sublime Lynda Barry knitted me a HAT! When I was hanging out with her and Chris Ware last month, Chris told a story about Read the rest of this entry »
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a white weasel in a nor’easter
December 16th, 2007
I was just looking out the window at the birds feeding in the blizzard when a white weasel popped Read the rest of this entry »
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