Ellen Wernecke
What I'm working on, here and there. Contact me: egwernecke [at] gmail dot com.
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Sep 22
“ I became a pop-culture writer because I love movies, music, and books, and I wanted to share that enthusiasm. I want every movie to be good. It breaks my heart when art doesn’t live up to its potential. I got into this business so that I could infect people with that overriding passion.
— Maybe the Washington Post should insult my A.V. Club colleague Nathan Rabin more often if it leads him to write rallying cries like this one for Poynter. FREEDOM! If you love everything that is good, buy Nathan’s book THE BIG REWIND and pre-order the new A.V. Club collection INVENTORY.
Sep 21
» On Michael Chabon's The Mysteries Of Pittsburgh
This is my month for the AV Club book club, so please come over and read and comment. If you haven’t read the book, spoiler alert: I liked it a lot.
Sep 10
» Do this, New York: Brooklyn Book Festival, Sept. 13
I’ll be there starting from the 10AM Updike/DFW panel. Reblog if you want to play Edward Coffee-Hands on the courthouse steps beforehand!
» AV Club: Review of the debut novel Moonlight in Odessa.
See first paragraph for the reason I bothered Twitter about borshch. I’m still not completely satisfied with it, I think I could have done better, but that is not your fault, tweeps!
Sep 08
“ Now, in addition to removing shoes, belts and laptops and carrying liquids of no more than 3.4 ounces in a zip-top plastic bag, passengers may be stopped if they are carrying what security personnel consider suspicious looking powder.
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Airport Screening Will Now Include Powders
Just kill me.
(via paulbrady)
First plane evacuation due to “suspicious looking powder” left in a forbidden seat back pocket in 5… 4… 3…
Sep 03
