First off: Christian Dumais takes time away from writing awesome short stories and reviews Stays Crunchy in Milk at his site. Tomorrow there will be an interview.

He says “Stays Crunchy in Milk is one of the year’s best literary surprises.” See that? I’m a surprise and literary! Wait. What? Hmm. Does that mean I leapt out of a big cake made of Joyce? Who knows! But go read the review and then buy the book. It makes a great holiday gift.

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I have a friend who lives in a small town. I mean small. Like tiny. Like small small town. And I got this email, from said friend: “Did you know if you use the words “Egregious Civil Rights Violation” in a town board meeting, you’ll get a call from the town attorney that very night?”

My gut reaction was typed into my reply. I couldn’t stop myself: “Did he try to ban dancing? Do they do that in small towns? I’ve seen Foot Loose, I know how these things work!”

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More later.