Don't be annoying. Do have skills.

Great day today with ali_wildgoose, lunching and chilling and MoMA-ing and getting tea, after a fun night out to dinner with calloocallay on Tuesday. Really, really nice. Looking forward to seeing a big pile of folks at various events in DC this weekend. I'm taking the Delta Shuttle because I scored super-cheap tix and the train—I mean, look the train should NOT be more expensive than flying. That's just crazy talk!

I did, however, watch the president yammer about how more troops are going to make everything awesome in Baghdad and give the government time to stabilize etc, and you know, that would be great if I thought for one minute that any of the people IN the coalition government really wanted to maintain that government. Call me cynical.

I waited for the official blogs to go up before I posted about ( this week's Top Chef )

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Also? You have GOT to read Harold's blog tonight. He'd had a problem with guest judge Mike Yakura last year, which he expressed in his interviews, but now that he's not a contestant he let it fly on his blog and it is a beautiful thing to behold.

snark.

Last night I read an essay Heidi Julavits wrote in March 2003 about snarkiness in literary book reviews. (I'd never read it before, though I'm sure some of you have.) It got me thinking about the review battles, all the talk about reader revolts, and specifically, about ( that particular kind of snarky review that is presented as a reader service )

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