My girlfriend, originally being from the South, has the weird ability to talk to the vegetables and fruits to learn when they are ripe and ready for eating. Being from New Jersey, I do not possess this ability.

I never thought Gore Vidal could be funny. Then I read this from the New York Times:

“As a literary showdown, Mario Vargas Llosa vs. Gabriel García Márquez ranks with some of the most famous feuds, including Lillian Hellman vs. Mary McCarthy, Vladimir Nabokov vs. Edmund Wilson, and Norman Mailer vs. Gore Vidal. (When the encounter between Mr. Mailer and Mr. Vidal turned physical, if not bloody, Mr. Vidal is said to have responded from the floor, ‘Words fail Norman Mailer yet again.’)”

I’ve been playing around on Issuu.com, a great new site where magazines, artists, photographers and even authors can digitize their printed work for viewing. People have posted portfolios, back issues, handmade books, and one industrious author has posted the entire text of The Love Book for people to read for free. The best part is that the documents, once uploaded, are embeddable so people can post them to their own blogs or sites. Continue reading →