Five Good Things: House on Fire Edition
1. We’re going home to see Eminem and Jay-Z at Yankee Stadium tomorrow, which not only makes up for a whole weekend spent in my pajamas watching onDemand (you guys, Parenthood is such a winner, I never knew! It’s like a funnier version of Brothers and Sisters without Rob Lowe making you want to kill yourself all the time with his Serious Acting), but makes me legit excited because I actually love Eminem and Jay-Z with the pure love of an angry fourteen year old boy. Questions: have you ever read Oprah’s interview with Jay-Z where she shames him re: his liberal use of the n-word? Do you think the violence in “Love the Way You Lie” is real or metaphorical? Please discuss citing specific examples from the text.
2. Lady Gaga gives Beyonce a diamond-studded whip and lingerie for her birthday, DO I EVEN NEED TO GO ON except to say that Marissa, now you know what I bought you for graduation, sorry to ruin the surprise.
3. It’s cold in the morning and cold at night, and although I know from experience that it will take roughly one month before I’m bitching and moaning about how freezing and miserable I am, for the time being it’s really nice. In California I bought new socks to celebrate.
4. I’m reading Red Hook Road by Ayelet Waldman, who is married to Michael Chabon, who I love. It’s good but boring and makes me wonder what the two of them talk about at dinner, if he is all “Literary Themes! An alternate universe where Alaska is a Jewish state! Comic books! Harry Houdini! Homoeroticism!” and she is all “New England love story with class issues!” Frankly it seems like sort of what it would be like if I was married to Michael Chabon.
5. I’m going to go make an egg sandwich. If you were here I’d make you one, too.
September 12, 2010 @ 3:42 pm
I love egg sandwiches! And your writing. And Michael Chabon. I don’t get her so much. Come back to California, next time in March or April.
September 12, 2010 @ 9:10 pm
Thanks, I love egg sandwiches…
September 13, 2010 @ 1:32 pm
I hate myself for liking “Love the Way You Lie.” It’s so AWFUL with the violence, but the Rihanna singing parts just sound so darn cool.
September 14, 2010 @ 12:12 pm
I will arrive on Friday to collect my diamond studded lingerie and whip. No worries about the surprise element. I mean, it only makes sense so, I’d already had an inkling.