June 3, 2003

Thank you: I appreciate all of the warm anniversary wishes. Many, many personal e-mail replies are forthcoming. As always, my belief has been reinforced: readers of this site are more generous, better looking and more intelligent and discerning than most of the general population, which does fuckall to explain why they end up here. But hey, thanks!

Jews with knives: Derek Powazek has published one of my very favorite of his stories, The Scar at the { fray }. This is the tender yet occasionally howlingly funny tale he told at Fray Café 3 this spring in Austin. The web version is delightful, but it benefits from being heard live as well.

Izzle Pfaff!: I Am Swiftly Punished. (Bonus re-run: There is an Eldritch Presence in My Refrigerator.)

Off the stack: A lot of time spent on planes, trains and in waiting rooms has given me more time for leisure reading recently. Among the consumed tomes...

• Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six MIT Students Who Took Vegas For Millions: A ripping read, primer-in-card-counting-cum-geek-thriller. It's a considerable expansion of this Wired feature with more cloak and dagger thrown in. It was hard for me to put down.
• Sellevision: A gift from a reader of The BradLands. I read this one in a single sitting. Light and soapy in the style of -- but inferior to -- Robert Rodi, following the travails of a handful of painfully shallow home shopping channel hosts. The end is a bit of a letdown after the go-go-go momentum, but Augusten Burroughs shows some promise.
• Tommy's Tale: Heartful hedonism, thoughtfully and ramblingly wrought by actor Alan Cumming. I'm still in the middle of this one, but enjoying it thoroughly. Another reader recommendation and gift. Thank you!

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