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Maybe I'll do this every week, but I won't promise. But here is one for today!

But if this blog truly has a job, I wouldn’t feel like I did it if I didn’t read and make notes on “Knife” since there is so much inside it that has also been here, in a halting way: crime, disability/recovery, and writing. I admired when on page 63 Rushdie wrote that he wanted his attacker, known in the book as A, to “look me in my one eye, and tell me the truth.” Because everything the young man did say seemed so painfully inadequate. Rushdie writes that he might not have been there if his airconditioner hadn’t gone out, if his newly-married life hadn’t hit such a high, and, of course, if he hadn’t written a book in “Satanic Verses” that had become That Book for so many. (His assailant barely knew about that, it should be noted, but that kind of notoriety does appear to leave a trail.) It’s hard to read that and not fall back into that perversely-comforting true-crime trap, that in some ways, might be part of the real draw for some of us: Suddenly, instead of a lonely-and-broke Saturday night(again), it seems suddenly perceptive not to have a date for six years, forcing The Friday’s Killer to look elsewhere for his yummy treats

introduced by one of my imaginary husbands, Ben from TCM.
http://bohemiancrip.blogspot.com/2024/06/covering-my-beat-with-my-left-foot.html
In other news, I hate summer, and wish I had more to say.
But I'm feeling a bit more hale physically

writing about TV comedy again, but it made a nice distraction from possibly embarrassing my friend by being a...bit vivid in a public forum. Maybe I care a little less than I used to. He saved me from me, possibly.
http://bohemiancrip.blogspot.com/2023/10/not-quite-new-curse-out-of-boston.html
In other news, I think I know how to end the book.

To think I was going to retire the "bittercrip" tag cause I hit a smooth spot, if not a happy one.
Not quite yet, I guess.(and even if mom and I get this reprieve... I'm not young enough to pretend that we're...saved.)
http://bohemiancrip.blogspot.com/2023/07/all-up-in-my-feelings.html

http://bohemiancrip.blogspot.com/2023/06/bohemian-crip-and-mystery-of-good.html
From the prompt about the internet solving a mystery on the GYWO newsletter.

http://bohemiancrip.blogspot.com/2023/05/thoughts-about-fabelmans.html
I hope my intent to show off dreamwidth comes through in any case. Just want to save some keystrokes while I can!

but Bohemian Crip had its 300th post today!
Should I be pleased or sad at all the other pursuits I set aside for this?
Not that it's a bad post, for all that it took kind of long to complete.
http://bohemiancrip.blogspot.com/2023/03/300th-post-is-about-books.html

So I thought I'd catch the "overflow" and put it here.Not what I thought I'd do today, but gift horses, and all that.
http://bohemiancrip.blogspot.com/2023/01/submitted-sketch-about-yard-salesand.html