Miscellaneous: Big Time
From the How Did I Miss This? Department: Congratulations to Jess Walter, whose novel The Zero is one of five finalists for this year’s National Book Award.
I write a glowing review of his book before I go on vacation, and by my return he lands one of the loftiest of accolades. Such is the power I wield.
Miscellaneous: Conversations at the Whitney Museum
Elderly woman standing before a Jackson Pollock painting: Thank God ours isn’t glooped up like that one.
Ours?
Thus marking one of the rare uses of ‘glooped’ when it is not the operative word in a sentence.
Me, spotting a sign for an upcoming exhibition of the work of artist Kiki Smith: Didn’t she used to sing with Louis Prima?
Rosemarie, playing along with my dumb joke: Yeah, she had that great haircut.
Helpful woman behind us: No, Kiki Smith.
