Random!

I got my hair cut short on Saturday. It's a little shorter than I'd anticipated, not through any fault of my hairdresser, who was fabulous -- just, we couldn't find a picture of the exact length I wanted, so I said "somewhere between the lengths in those two pictures." I'm not quite used to it yet, and I keep seeing it out of the corner of my eye and going "huh."

In any case, I was buying a muffin for lunch this morning at the Met Bakery and, completely unsolicited, the salesclerk says "wow, I love your haircut." First time that's happened in ages. (I briefly considered that she might've been flirting -- I look way more gay with shortshort hair -- but she was really not sending that message at all.) Huh.

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If you remember me talking about Adam Gopnik's The King in the Window, you remember that I thought it was too, too precious. (Every time I discussed it, I ended up referencing Dorothy Parker's "Tonstant Weader thwowed up.") Which makes this interview all the more amusing, as he informs us that his sister is a developmental psychologist, and that she consulted on the book to insure that it helped children's minds "reach up." Heh.

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In other book reviewing news, the Chron is reviewing Senator Barbara Boxer's Born to Run. And guess who's reviewing it? Daniel Handler. So it's funny. For example

After all, Boxer is primarily a politician, not a novelist, and so one should not hold "A Time to Run" to the same standards as that of, say, Toni Morrison. Nor should I compare her fiction to the novels written by other politicians, for the simple reason that there is simply not enough money in the coffers of The San Francisco Chronicle to pay me to pick up a novel by Newt Gingrich.

He also makes amusing points about the mismash of the plot. Y'all should go check it out.

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