-Inspring Kerry House Party on Saturday night. Pat Runyan, a swift boat crewmate of Kerry's was the featured speaker. Not a professional speaker or a politician, just a guy speaking from the heart about service. Lots of fired up democrats. Talked a few people into joining me at phone banking this coming week. Yea!
-I Read David Sedaris' Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim over the weekend. Funny stuff, at times a bit disturbing. Wish that I could write about the everyday with such intense honesty. Sedaris relates amusing anecdotes, mostly about growing up and rejecting his family's suburban values. Couldn't help but compare to Jonathan Franzen's How to Be Alone: Essays, which I profoundly disliked. Whereas Franzen uses irony to articulate contempt for middle America, Sedaris manages to express critique with a sense of affection. Still, couldn't help but imagine his siblings wincing with every story of dysfunction Sedaris drags down from the dusty rafters.
-Just starting to read Mike Rose's The Mind at Work, which I'm reviewing for Rhetoric Review. Interesting analysis of the cognitive skills that American workers expend on a daily basis.
-When is the new John Waters film coming to Cinci?!!!
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