So far I haven’t made any resolutions other than to finally get around to watching La Dolce Vita.
Probably because I’m pretty sure that’s one resolution I can keep.

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Actually that Dutch phrase means something like “To Choose or Share”, according to some German guy I know. Not that he actually speaks Dutch or is from Germany, but, it seems more plausible than “Molars or Parts”.

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Research has yielded some extreme weirdness about this whole Dutch thing. Not only is there a British author by the name of Jill Mansell who already has a Dutch-translated book Dutch-titled: Kiezen of delen, but also, according to Altavista’s Babel Fish translator, Kiezen of delen actually means “Molars or Parts”.

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Mijn braaksel was blauwig. (My vomit was teal.)
‘Vind jij het niet moeilijk om dat wijfie van je zo vaak niet te zien?’ (”Is it hard to be away from your fine-ass woman so much of the time?”)
‘O ja! Hm ja, zo! Dat is lekker!’ (”Oh, yeah! Uh huh, that’s right! Give it to me, baby, […]

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I’m still reeling from last night’s Nip/Tuck season finale. Maybe because all in one episode we got: a man born without a penis (despite his being portrayed as a successful, albeit bisexual womanizer); a man posing as a woman having his penis chopped off, with a boxcutter, by a boy he/she had not only had […]

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Today I was in a bookstore and could find absolutely nothing that I wanted to read. That got me thinking…hmm, I wonder whatever happened to Heather Cochran’s second RDI release (her first being the wonderfully unique and not so genre-oriented Mean Season) that was supposed to be out in November? It’s December, no? […]

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Okay, okay…I promise to stop posting exclusively about my hair.
Instead I’ll get back to posting mostly about LLT and writing/publishing-related topics. Like how interesting is this, my mother told me the publisher sent copies of LLT by mail the other day, in Dutch. I’m now imagining it in the hands of young women from […]

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There you have it. (Left)

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If you really want to see what my haircut looks like, go check out George Michael’s ‘do on the cover of your old Wham! Make It Big record.

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I have a new name for my pain and it is Supercuts.
Now some of you may be compelled to ask: “Amanda! Why in the f–k did you go to Supercuts?”
To which I would be compelled to reply: “I don’t f–king know!”
At any rate–and this one would be a cheap $11–I can see (literally every time […]

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