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We don’t like treadmills. They are unstable and unsafe. For proof, you need look no further than our experience on one while reading Georgette Heyer’s Black Sheep. Without going into too much embarrassing detail, let us say there was uncontrollable laughter and an uncontrollable tread. We are sufficiently padded, so bruises barely showed. Heyer, a prolific author who died in 1974, wrote primarily about the Regency period — a fascinating period of cultural history. The bawdy Georgians were morphing into the hypocritical, repressed Victorians as the Industrial Age dawned. Little things like democracy (which you may have heard about in

We have a love-hate relationship with our hometown paper. Actually, now that we think about it, we don’t even read our hometown paper (The Pasadena Star-News, but we’re sure it’s a fine publication) — we read The Los Angeles Times. And, in all fairness, our hate is mostly directed toward the Times’s website, including, but not limited to, its bizarre insistence on charging to access the Calendar section (we, as print subscribers don’t have to pay, which is good because we wouldn’t). Hmm, it strikes us that this post may actually be on topic because we often want to reference

We actually saw the Jessica Cutler thing bright and early this morning (as did other bloggers of our acquaintance — man, some of you get up way too early), but our mind refused to process the story. Mostly because we were hot on the trail of what had to be the craziest thing we’d ever heard: NPR music reviews are hip. We understand your shock, and suggest you sit down and put your head between your knees. We cannot comment on the inscrutable part of the story because we have this weird habit of only half-listening to NPR (after a

Really, we don’t require restaurant recommendations from authors, but what the heck. As it turns out, Laurie Notaro is perfectly willing to open a vein and share. Powells.com interviews Notaro about turning misfortune (lack of publisher interest) into fortune (self-publishing and thereby garnering major publisher interest). The lengthy interview discusses, among other things, her new book I Love Everybody (and Other Atrocious Lies): True Tales of a Loudmouth Girl and how being a dork is okay. We cannot begin to explain our relief. Laurie Notaro’s Ongoing Action Adventure