Amy Dickinson
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"Ask Amy" advice columnist, NPR Wait Wait Don't Tell Me panelist, literacy advocate, NYT bestselling author, and proprietor of the Freeville Free Library. Author of the One Good Thing newsletter on Substack
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Farmers and other patriots show up to our local #nokings rally.
Resistance to tyranny is American.
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Sometimes I think about how frogs serve now as inextricable iconography for both sides in these Balkanized United States and I blame the Hadron Collider for shifting us into this fucking Babar/Berenstain Bears-ass timeline.
a small frog is sitting on a counter next to an orange ball
Alt: a small frog is sitting on a counter next to an orange ball
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I'll have about 2 feet extra of sleeve suede I can send you
Honestly I bought a men's small and I'm swimming in it but I'm a shrimp
Don't know your style but I got a suede barn jacket at Zara for under $100 (don't recall the exact price). Is it a piece of junk? So far, no.
It's this one:
(And I look exactly like this person striding across a city street in my new barn jacket.)
Wow -- thank you for this comprehensive take on Day-Lewis' acting choices. I especially enjoyed your perspective on DeNiro's Everyman problem. So true
For Louie, doing a set for rapists seems very much on brand.
Otherwise - Amen to this take.
WARNING:
My tap shoes arrived today
Don't know if you're a parent, but ...
moms also do this with abandon. (I used to live next to the National Zoo and saw some amazing stroller offenses).
What a totally charming illustration! Makes me want to write the story to accompany it.
This photo sends off deep Fargo vibes
He negotiated my first deal and -- naive at the start -- I eventually learned a lot by experiencing how he operated.
Congratulations! I'm looking forward to reading this.
Your homeland really does defy description. Sublime beauty
Wow!! What a fantastic development. Lovely story.
Waiting for an overnight flight from Addis Ababa to NYC. There is a piano nearby.
An Egyptian man sits and plays "What a Friend I Have in Jesus" and segues in to other American churchy spirituals.
Now he's playing Auld Lang Syne.
Ethiopian New Year was recently, so it seems right.
(It's 2018 here!)
So basically I've been in Tanzania. Last night's sunset featured zebras loping across the plain. Heading home, which means I have a few more hours before I feel compelled to learn what's wrong with Keith Olbermann this time.
Haha -- my new motto. Thanks Jane!
Around five years ago I was contacted by Sinclair-owned station (previously decent WJLA), to do a segment. Paraphrasing Bridget Jones, I replied that I'd rather wipe Saddam Hussein's ass.
I know I didn't actually say those words, but I was .... terse in my refusal, which for me is the same thing.