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  • No one invites me over for dinner because I’m hungry like the wolf

      The genius of Duran Duran was to freeze The Beatles in that train station that was surgin’ with girls. Almost everything Duran Duran did in the 1980s was “A Hard Day’s Night.” They just added the clothes and the hair. In addition to their big idea, Duran Duran’s first…

  • Sex and motherhood: Still out of stock

    In our last, very exciting episode, I began the saga of Run-DMSteve’s Big Fat 2014 Reading Theme. I told you about the four biographies I read that had their moments but never reached escape velocity. Today we’re going to leave Earth orbit with the five best biographies of the year.…

  • The two most popular blog topics: sex and motherhood

    When I launched this blog in 2010, I knew that sex and motherhood were the showstoppers of the blogging world. I knew that if you combined the two, you’d end up with a book deal. So naturally, I decided to write about music. This helps explain why, though money and…

  • One does not simply walk into Mordor: Guest editorial from Run-DMStevomir

    To end the old year and start the new one, Éowyn and I re-watched The Lord of the Rings. (We did plenty of non-Middle-earth activities, too, so Shut. Up.) In watching all three movies I developed a theory about Sauron. This theory goes as follows and begins now. Here’s the…

  • There and back again

    In 1980, I decided to set off on an adventure. I left my ancestral home. I traveled across this great land by train. I landed on the other side of the country. I was carrying a suitcase, my father’s army duffel bag, and my typewriter. And when I walked through…