Author Archives: kara

About kara

We know our letters just fine, and we know our numbers to a certain point, but books were always the realm of four-eyed poindexters with bowler hats and cravats. That’s why it pleases us so that America’s proud illiterates are finally stepping up and pushing back against the crushing tide of education that threatens to swallow us all into its gaping maw of checked facts. Champions of the Ignorantiat will not like it here.

Posted on July 26, 2011 by kara

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least … Continue reading →

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The Brat Pack Can’t Possibly be This Boring.

Posted on July 24, 2011 by kara

A mullet-topped Lowe and idiot Tom Cruise, on top of the world. FULL DISCLOSURE: I read a piece in VANTY FAIR about Rob Lowe that included the first chapter of his newly published memoir. Immediately upon finishing said chapter, I … Continue reading →

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Bad Dreams.

Posted on July 10, 2011 by kara

I read The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner 2 weeks ago and it has infected 70% my dreams since. The odious anti hero is a young man living in scary, pre-Enlightenment Scotland, in the early 18th century. … Continue reading →

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Posted on July 7, 2011 by kara

A pulp novel I love. Tomboy “The Famous Novel of Juvenile Delinquency”, by Hal Ellison, 1950. buy at alibris

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Great Snacks in Literature

Posted on June 23, 2011 by kara

Christmas Pudding, A Christmas Carol Hallo. A great deal of steam. The pudding was out of the copper. A smell like a washing-day. That was the cloth. A smell like an eating-house and a pastrycook’s next door to each other, … Continue reading →

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Posted on June 18, 2011 by kara

“The pies and cakes had been ordered from a caterer in Yvetot. Since he was starting up in the district, he had gone to considerable pains: and when dessert time came he himself brought to the table a wedding cake … Continue reading →

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Fifty at Eleven.

Posted on June 12, 2011 by kara

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Who’s the Psychopath? Running Down a Sanity Checklist.

Posted on June 9, 2011 by kara

I heard this in the car the other day. Jon Ronson’s hilarious investigation as to whether corporate leaders can, in fact, be psychopaths by visiting Al Dunlap, the turnaround artist known as “Chainsaw Al” for his cost-cutting at Scott Paper, … Continue reading →

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Posted on June 8, 2011 by kara

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Live Through WHAT?

Posted on June 8, 2011 by kara

I never write about a book I dislike, eh, what’s the point. But, I’m going to complain about a desperation airport purchase. “Live Through This” (you know), is a mother’s agonizing account of dealing with two terrible teenaged daughters. Debra Gwartney’s daughters … Continue reading →

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