August

I never give people music to listen to because everyone's got different tastes and it's always awkward when someone has you listen to something. Still, this past weekend I gave my friend the Liz Phair WCSE CD that I'd just bought a few days before; I'd already listened to it about 6 times- at home and on headphones- and I wanted a break, plus I thought it would be something differnt that she could listen to in the car.

Anyway, I like it a lot, maybe even more than Whipsmart.

I've been writing a short story and I'm thinking of putting it up here, at RJ Battles, serialized, like Bonfire of the Vanities in Rolling Stone. Before it was published as a book, it ran in the magazine- as he was writing it. He said that it forced him to continue on with it and stay on schedule. He'd already non-fiction books like The Painted Word and The Right Stuff. Bonfire was his first novel. I don't know if my short story will be better than BotV- I haven't read it yet. I like the novel he wrote after, A Man in Full, but I also skipped over a lot.