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As noted last month, I'm collecting my published work for one massive entry here. I'll update it as additional work comes out, but I won't write new posts for The Slippery Fish because I have a myriad of deadlines, limited health and, of course, Facebook and Twitter have made blogs somewhat superfluous.It's taking awhile to accrue everything, so I'm adding pieces incrementally, mostly in reverse

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For the past month, I've been gathering all links to my work so that I can archive them here in one comprehensive entry. If I get super-ambitious, I'll scan my print-only features to my Flickr account and toss those links into the mix, too. I hope to complete said project soon, then I'll update The Slippery Fish only when I have a new piece go online or hit the stands.'Tis best for two reasons: I

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I love the title my editor chose, "It's Always the Quiet Ones", and that the guy in the accompanying photo looks like Radiohead's Thom Yorke.Enjoying the responses this piece is garnering, even the one from a crazy dude.Can any amount of vertical compatibility make up for incompatibility in the sack? Let's see:http://www.nerve.com/love-sex/true-stories/true-stories-its-always-the-quiet-onesAlso,

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I remember being so excited when Walter Mondale added Geraldine Ferraro to the Democratic Presidential ticket in 1984. With three terms in House of Representatives, she didn't strike me as the most qualified to be VP, but neither was she the least. And she reinvigorated the Democrats in a way Mondale couldn't. (Mondale couldn't invigorate a birthday party. As Dennis Miller, back when he was funny

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In the West, we never embraced funeral pyres and the cultures that did have largely done away with them.Tonight, I would have to say this was a mistake. Count me as resolutely pro-funeral pyre.Also, pro-Nutella and Valium.

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In college, the above photo was among those I tacked on the bulletin board near my bed. A film buff, I was enamored of Giant, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Father of the Bride, Little Women and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. I was captivated by Elizabeth Taylor's talent and found her personal life eminently readable. No one who seemed both etched in marble and gloriously flesh and blood at sixteen,

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As of last night, I was authorized to reveal the great news!Please join me in welcoming George and Jennifer's new son, Mom and Dad's first grandchild and the beautiful little boy who has made me a Thia: Nixon Henri Dremousis! (I know, my dear lefty compadres, his first name won't thrill you, but our family is delighted, so try and focus on that.) He's seven pounds, 14 ounces, 21 inches and sports

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I wish "hell" were divorced from religious connotations because it more aptly describes what has transpired in Japan since Thursday.Everyone already knows where to donate by now and I have no idea if thoughts and prayers work, but I'll keep sending mine, just in case, to the victims, their loved ones and the first responders.Of equal personal importance, a close loved one is back in the hospital

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I interview Mike Sacks' about his new, wickedly droll and superbly reviewed essay collection, Your Wildest Dreams within Reason.As I state in the intro after alluding to the horror unfolding in Japan, "In a world that will never make sense, we need smart people who make us laugh. So, thank you, Mike Sacks, for helping us keep the lids on our pill jars.":http://www.thenervousbreakdown.com/

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The Wall Street Journal's newest CFIDS piece, on whether it's safe for those of us with CFIDS to donate blood and the role the XMRV retrovirus might play in determining the answer:http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2011/03/07/xmrv-and-the-blood-supply-more-study-needed/As I noted the other day, the Wall Street Journal's CFIDS reporting has been exemplary. If you have CFIDS, particularly an acute

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1) Elle Magazine's gorgeously etched profile on Laura Hillenbrand, author of the acclaimed bestsellers Seabiscuit and Unbroken. A searingly honest and often funny look at what it's like to write each day while your body slowly unravels:http://www.elle.com/Beauty/Health-Fitness/Chronic-Fatigue-Syndrome-A-Celebrated-Author-s-Untold-Tale2) The New York Times continues its superb CFIDS coverage with

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Because it's an effective writing warm-up but mostly because it's fun, I post six-word stories on Smith Magazine nearly each day. (As noted last year, I had a piece included in Smith's latest HarperCollins anthology, It All Changed in an Instant and read at the University Bookstore stop of their tour: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TV8VpKj50Ds)Went to post this morning and discovered one of mine

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One of my dear lefty colleagues recently chided me for being too hard on Greece and its ongoing economic debacle. I explained to him nearly each Greek-American I know had predicted the motherland's implosion and while creating the building blocks for contemporary democracy, math, theater and Western philosophy remains equally inspiring and astounding, toppling the EU is kind of a huge fucking

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The Washington Square Hotel posted this photo on its Twitter feed today:http://twitpic.com/42a0vuYes, I know New York winters permeate one's bone marrow and they're damned near impossible to navigate with a cane, but dear god, I remain entranced. (The last time I was in New York, it was 10 degrees F with wind chill, I had a 100 degree fever and needed the cane the entire trip and it was still

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First off, thanks so much to everyone for your delightful birthday wishes yesterday. Imbibed the leftover cake from Kingfish this morning and am experiencing a sugar crash not unlike the opium madness Burroughs wrote of in Naked Lunch. ("I've got the fear!")If we've known each other awhile, you know this is the fourth version of this essay that has run in the past ten years. And if we know each

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Hey, straight guys!If you'd admit you're a wee curious about fucking each other, the NFL would become superfluous.As would bar fights and any film in which Hugh Jackman transmogrifies.Think it over and get back to me.Happy Superbowl Sunday!

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Everything about this bill is revoltingly sexist, out-of-touch and cruel. I'm not a fan of Speaker Boehner (obviously) but I praised his eloquence when Congresswoman Giffords was shot. I don't foresee praising him again.From New York Magazine, "New Bill Reportedly Proposes Restrictions on Federal Funding for Abortions":http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/01/abortion.htmlContained: a radical

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Well-researched and detailed new piece on the pernicious forces battling Egyptian writers who are calling for democracy:http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41285248/ns/technology_and_science-tech_and_gadgets/All power to them. And goddamnit, we are so lucky to live here.

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The Nervous Breakdown Literary Experience, Seattle Edition #2 is Friday, April 8, 7 p.m. in the Jewelbox Theater at the Rendezvous!Last time, the Stranger called us "a big goddamned deal"; KOMO4.com deemed us "the six best authors in town" (a wee hyperbolic but a lovely compliment nonetheless); and City Arts said we were "funny and sharp".Best not fuck this one up.The brilliant Jonathan Evison

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I'm fairly certain the emails in all three inboxes are now asexually reproducing. While it's objectively fascinating and, more importantly, the content contained therein is humbling, moving and gratifying, despite returning scads each day, I'm still not caught up. "After the Fire" has, in fact, caught fire and I'm really kind of speechless at the response it has engendered even if--and this goes

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My new Seattle Weekly feature, "An Incomplete History of Clutch Douglass' Journey to the '80s" is out now:http://www.seattleweekly.com/2011-01-19/music/an-incomplete-history-of-clutch-douglass-journey-back-to-the-80s/Fun being funny again!

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The Nerve essay (see previous post) generated a volume of letters as large as it was unforeseen. Completely bittersweet, given the piece's topic, and deeply humbling that people have chosen to share their own stories of loss. Each missive deserves a thoughtful response and all three of my inboxes have been overflowing for the past 10 days. I'm nearly caught up, but if you haven't heard from me

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Hard to write; much harder not to. Deeply touched by the insightful comments:http://www.nerve.com/love-sex/true-stories/true-stories-after-the-fire

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Since first watching CNN's "Breaking News" report yesterday while nestling with the puppy and returning emails, i.e. engaging in unremarkable Saturday morning behavior, I've been incredibly saddened and upset by the horror that unfolded in Tuscon.I feel awful for the victims and for their loved ones. I send Congresswoman Giffords and each survivor prayers and healing thoughts and wish them

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...this would be horrible news under any circumstances, but one of my best friends for the past 23 years just moved to London yesterday, so I find this particularly disturbing.Wishing the Brits best of luck and very much hope this is a false alarm. In particular, I want my friend and his wife to be safe. And holy hell, what fucked up news to receive the first day in your new city:http://

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Fun piece in which to be included and a rollicking good way to launch 2011:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/larry-smith/six-word-memoirs-new-year_b_803327.html?ref=fb&src=sp#s218347&title=Finish%20manuscript%3B%20click%20heels%3B%20drink%20heavily.

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KEXP interviewed a bunch of us re our 2011 resolutions. Fun being included with Ken Stringfellow, Matthew Caws, King County Executive, Dow Constantine and others whose work I admire and/or with whom I'm friends. Plus, an added bonus: my younger brother is actually impressed:http://blog.kexp.org/blog/2010/12/30/seattle-music-scene%E2%80%99s-new-year%E2%80%99s-resolutions-pt-1/comment-page-1/#

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To my loved ones and colleagues who helped assuage the searing grief to manageable levels, I remain forever and deeply grateful. I've written of this before but it's worth repeating: there's so much good in the world and I was surrounded by it and that made all the difference. The shock wore off months ago and the "new normal" everyone kept referring to continues to take shape. I incorporate his

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As during the Carter years, there's a recession akin to a bloodbath; joblessness persists; house values keep plummeting and the nation's mood remains cranky as hell.But to borrow Joe Biden's oft-quoted phrase, here's the huge fucking deal: Carter's one term held few historically notable successes. Obama's first two years contain a pair of gigantic victories: health care reform and the repeal of

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...unless it contains Pakistan's nuclear codes and you've heard rumors President Asif Ali Zardari has an itchy trigger finger, you appear less intellectual, not more.The smartest and most insightful response is usually to engage in the world surrounding you.

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I'll heading out the door soon for Part #2 of the Christmas cacophony but my thoughts are with my good friend, whose sister died yesterday after a long bout with brain cancer. She died at home surrounded by her loved ones and for the past two weeks, each of them knew this would arrive any moment.While her sister's suffering is over, there is a tragedy and, from where I sit, a meaningless to such

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...so many deeply thoughtful, extraordinarily intelligent, boundlessly talented and ridiculously super-cute friends and family members.That said, my dear friend and colleague, Jade, just gave me an autographed first-edition Joan Didion, so unless someone wants to gift-wrap Bono and/or Jon Hamm, I think this is the gift-getting pinnacle.

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...because much of them would incorporate you-know-who and I long ago opted to withhold from the grief-mongers whatever it is they think they'll find here. (Seriously, when certain individuals do searches on his name here several times a week, it's not a question of loose screws so much as the degree of looseness.)Instead, I'll offer a holiday piece I filmed for the Seattle Channel three years

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The lauded singer-songwriter and all-around swell guy on philanthropy, Three Imaginary Girls, Teen Feed and playing Santa:http://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/giving_back/2010/12/john-vanderslice-dresses-as-santa-for-three-imaginary-girls-fundraiser.htmlI've had a spate of interviews lately I've really enjoyed and this ranks high among them. My editor made an error, though, and one of JV's answers

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My new Seattle Weekly piece on Three Imaginary Girls' holiday benefit for Teen Feed, featuring the endlessly swell John Vanderslice, is online and on stands now:http://www.seattleweekly.com/events/three-imaginary-girls-holiday-party-1168315/

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The deeply talented and industrious Diane Mapes has a new feature on MSNBC.com in which I'm among those interviewed. Bemused that a number of my friends recalled the person in question right away:http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40281993/ns/health-pain_center/And Thomas was featured on Capitol Hill Blog a few months ago, but I had a bunch of deadlines and neglected to post it:http://

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...but I'm not writing about it here.You can stop doing word searches on his name.

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The American Red Cross is now forbidding people with CFIDS from donating blood:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/03/AR2010120305888.htmlEngland and Canada implemented the same measure earlier this year. I've never donated blood in the 19 years I've had CFIDS, even in the early years when my doctors said I could (they've informally advised against it for awhile now),

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...and skull-dented withered old man, but it's accurate on all counts, so what are you going to do?Anderson Cooper dismantles Berman's inaccuracies in an exemplary televised interview that should inspire more journalists how to remain calm while shredding totally fabricated crap:http://www.nerve.com/news/politics/watch-anderson-cooper-mops-the-floor-with-republican-birther

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...understands at least the basics of CFIDS, including its severity and unpredictability.Which is hugely appreciated, as I was too ill to attend Thanksgiving (marking the first time I've been so incapacitated I skipped a major holiday) or my friends' dinner party Saturday night. Except to walk the puppy, I've been unable to leave the house for days. Still on track with my upcoming deadlines, but

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...that a man killed a stranger with an axe Monday morning a half-mile from my home in full view of school children and it has barely made the news.In a strange and awful coincidence, the murderer lived on my street and was treating at the mental health facility on Olive; both were true of the 2007 knife-wielding New Year's Eve murderer.Like everyone, I feel for the victims' families and wish no

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Don't get pieces like this because so much of the dogs vs. cats debate comes down to the genetics and environment of the individual animal:http://jezebel.com/5697229/science-says-dogs-are-smarter-than-catsThat said, Thomas, of course, is smarter than most two-legged creatures roaming the planet.

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Several inches of snow have fallen since this afternoon, which is fine for those of us who work from home. Thanksgiving is probably canceled for a large chunk of the city, though, as most of it is a series of hills. Local news is reporting two buses just spun out on I-5 and are blocking three lanes then they showed my neighborhood, which is too snowed over for cars at all. Not that this has

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There will be peace in the Middle East before non-writers understand how we write and why.(With a few notable exceptions, of course.)

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Fellow TNB colleague and pal Aaron Dietz reads from his new and well-received novel, Super, tonight at The Hideout. Details:http://www.aarondietz.us/?page_id=423Hope to see you there!Also, this appeared in my Google alerts yesterday a month and a half after the fact, but in addition to rave previews from The Stranger and from KOMO4.com, it turns out The Nervous Breakdown Literary Experience

Litsa Dremousis:http://www.blogger.com/profile/02805126173325772698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598742.post-17668487778251293612010-11-06T11:16:00.000-07:002010-11-06T11:32:38.018-07:00

1) Aaron Sorkin is writing a screenplay based on the Edwards biography, The Politician. The odds it will be less than brilliant and wildly entertaining are roughly the same John Boehner will forgo bronzer.2) New York Magazine is reporting via the National Enquirer (yeah, I know, but the Enquirer has been dead accurate throughout Edwards' protracted imbroglios) that Rielle Hunter is now fucking

Litsa Dremousis:http://www.blogger.com/profile/02805126173325772698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598742.post-55587799055358286132010-11-05T15:46:00.000-07:002010-11-06T11:36:07.051-07:00

I'm telling a story tonight as part of Annex Theatre Company's "60 Seconds Max", 11:00 p.m., 1100 E. Pike St., $10 at the door. Forty-six performers and readers and a panoply of great and good things. Also, ample booze on the premises.Netflix can wait 'til tomorrow night![Saturday morning postscript: crackling and compelling show! Really enjoyed being part of it. More on Annex Theatre, one of

Litsa Dremousis:http://www.blogger.com/profile/02805126173325772698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598742.post-14025910355813770452010-11-03T08:12:00.000-07:002010-11-03T08:21:00.141-07:00

We knew this was coming.The best strategy? Take a deep breath and begin the fight for 2012.And please forgo infantile "I'm moving to..." wailing. It accomplishes nothing, reinforces the perception we're crybabies and insults all who have fought real oppression.My dad has Nazi shrapnel in his leg. I think I can begin and end my days with John Boehner as House Speaker. And history will vindicate

Litsa Dremousis:http://www.blogger.com/profile/02805126173325772698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598742.post-1218662280626253732010-11-02T10:25:00.000-07:002010-11-02T10:35:09.907-07:00

The one thing we know for certain is that in 75 years, everyone reading this will be dead.Some will die from accident, homicide, suicide, "act of God" (hurricane, et al), but the overwhelming majority of us will die from illness. And most of those illnesses will be protracted and probably grisly.But yeah, President Obama's health care legislation backed by the Democrats was a "pet issue".The

Litsa Dremousis:http://www.blogger.com/profile/02805126173325772698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598742.post-44766481856457396102010-10-31T07:14:00.000-07:002010-10-31T07:25:36.614-07:00

...Patty Murray and Dino Rossi, Washington State's senatorial candidates whose positions overlap not at all, are tied in polls at 47% to 47%. (It's axiomatic that King, Pierce and Snohomish Counties tilt heavily toward Murray but, of course, there's that pesky rest of the state.) The Tea Party, which I loathe, includes women to a greater degree than do Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, whose work

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Jon Stewart's closing remarks were incredibly salient and could have stood alone.In three hours, though, three women performed, one briefly, none solo."Sanity" apparently has a ball sack.

Litsa Dremousis:http://www.blogger.com/profile/02805126173325772698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598742.post-62469811398890912982010-10-29T08:48:00.000-07:002010-10-29T08:49:52.437-07:00

...but it's astounding it was a mere decade ago we had reasonable expectations flights and elections would go off without a hitch.

Litsa Dremousis:http://www.blogger.com/profile/02805126173325772698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598742.post-28431890028906121282010-10-25T17:23:00.000-07:002010-10-25T17:28:33.484-07:00

Photo slideshow of the annual Halloween dog costume extravaganza at Tompkins Park, with dogs looking understandably pissed off:http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2010/10/dog_halloween_parade.html?%3Fmid=facebook_nymag#photo=1x67315To each their own and all that, but I'd never dress up Thomas because he's already one of history's cutest creatures and it'd just be gilding the lily. Plus, as the pictorial

Litsa Dremousis:http://www.blogger.com/profile/02805126173325772698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598742.post-11104155824530182272010-10-23T10:56:00.000-07:002010-10-23T11:11:52.498-07:00

I'll be writing more about this in at least one upcoming piece, but when Pictures of You by Caroline Leavitt (Girls in Trouble) is released January 25th, you'd be foolish to overlook it. Leavitt's is the best kind of literary fiction: vivid and warm and depicting a heightened reality while prompting one to read in lieu of eating or sleeping. I'm a slow reader (I remember nearly everything I read,

Litsa Dremousis:http://www.blogger.com/profile/02805126173325772698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598742.post-46837835737287120302010-10-20T10:57:00.001-07:002010-10-20T11:02:52.213-07:00

Debate has ensued whether Anita Hill should have publicly disclosed Ginny Thomas' voicemail.Hill was right for three reasons:1) It demonstrates the bizarrely contorted views of harassers and those who defend them.2) She prevents Ginny from publicly relaying an untrue version of events.3) Hill demonstrates nearly two decades later she is resolutely unapologetic because she did absolutely nothing

Litsa Dremousis:http://www.blogger.com/profile/02805126173325772698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598742.post-76340541315022666892010-10-19T09:48:00.000-07:002010-10-19T09:54:15.077-07:00

Much thanks to the A Guide to Visitors producers. And in addition to emails from friends and family, I've received a few from strangers. Buoying when the Internet uses its powers for good.My piece is archived in "Hour Six" and it's the fourth one in:http://kuow.org/specials/aguidetovisitors.php

Litsa Dremousis:http://www.blogger.com/profile/02805126173325772698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598742.post-1896899888929615082010-10-18T09:20:00.000-07:002010-10-18T09:22:11.913-07:00

I have a piece airing on KUOW 94.9 FM (Seattle's NPR affiliate) at 8:00 tonight. Part of the stellar A Guide to Visitors series.Details:http://kuow.org/program.php?id=21278

Litsa Dremousis:http://www.blogger.com/profile/02805126173325772698noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598742.post-90968177042849273542010-10-16T09:44:00.000-07:002010-10-16T09:48:26.722-07:00

A federal panel has urged changing Chronic Fatigue Syndrome's name to reflect the illness' serious and multi-systemic nature:http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Health/panel-pushes-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-change/story?id=11891485&page=1I spent most of my twenties having people ask me, "So, are you tired all the time?" The above news is overdue and vindicating.

Litsa Dremousis:http://www.blogger.com/profile/02805126173325772698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598742.post-81363732667155735022010-10-15T15:31:00.000-07:002010-10-15T19:39:26.794-07:00

...it doesn't make it any less fun.The latest? The once and future GOP presidential candidate who spent $40 million of his own cash to come in third behind Mike Huckabee in the '08 race has made it a condition of his speaking engagement contract that hosts purchase several thousand copies of his new "book", No Apology:http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2010/10/15/mitt_romney_book/

Litsa Dremousis:http://www.blogger.com/profile/02805126173325772698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598742.post-88901941778029124332010-10-14T11:34:00.000-07:002010-10-14T11:52:08.345-07:00

Everyone with a soul was moved by yesterday's astoundingly good news. Will things get a bit more complicated physically, psychologically and financially in the upcoming months? Undoubtedly. For now, though, it's glorious to revel in humanity at its best.In context, this is de minimis, obviously, but my six-word memoir on the event was chosen by Smith Magazine as their Story of the Day:http://

Litsa Dremousis:http://www.blogger.com/profile/02805126173325772698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598742.post-91073952376326104962010-10-13T11:43:00.000-07:002010-10-13T12:18:43.092-07:00

...some of his friends who write for "The Daily Show", The Onion and for Conan O'Brien:http://www.thenervousbreakdown.com/ldremousis/2010/10/mike-sacks-co-wrote-2010s-funniest-book-earned-jon-stewarts-praise-and-for-now-at-least-preserved-his-infant-daughters-mental-health/OBOJ is like a bowl of pistachios: so tasty, you forget it's good for you. No mere "humor" book, it's brilliantly crafted and

Litsa Dremousis:http://www.blogger.com/profile/02805126173325772698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598742.post-63581046365386842602010-10-13T11:18:00.000-07:002010-10-13T11:43:06.775-07:00

...it's impossible not to be moved by the courage and tenacity of all involved. Thinking of the miners, the rescuers, all of their families and everyone anywhere in the world who remains unable to walk free.

Litsa Dremousis:http://www.blogger.com/profile/02805126173325772698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598742.post-60200716695851670982010-10-12T10:52:00.000-07:002010-10-12T11:16:42.264-07:00

My interview with the eminently talented singer-songwriter, Shelby Earl:http://www.seattleweekly.com/2010-10-06/music/donuts-and-dogs-with-shelby-earl/And all about the Hattie's Hat line-up for the Reverb Festival:http://www.seattleweekly.com/2010-10-06/music/hattie-s-hat/These came out last Wednesday but for obvious reasons, I didn't post them. The tete a tete with Earl was a total kick and I

Litsa Dremousis:http://www.blogger.com/profile/02805126173325772698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598742.post-13739602302905032012010-10-10T08:48:00.001-07:002010-10-10T08:51:07.208-07:00

...TJ's body was found.An elderly man on a fixed income lived in TJ's building for decades. For 10 years, the man couldn't cover rent. TJ paid the remainder so the man could forgo assisted living and stay in his home. TJ never told anyone except me.It's worth sharing now.(As I did at his memorial last year.)

Litsa Dremousis:http://www.blogger.com/profile/02805126173325772698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598742.post-31951907016558020872010-10-01T22:18:00.000-07:002010-10-01T22:47:31.824-07:00

...United States of Americana went up earlier tonight at The Nervous Breakdown:http://www.thenervousbreakdown.com/ldremousis/2010/10/kurt-b-reighley-author-of-united-states-of-americana-makes-you-want-make-things/Of the dozens of folks I've interviewed, Reighley is among my favorites. Our culture is a better place for his work. And he's got a killer recipe for homemade pickles, rendering most

Litsa Dremousis:http://www.blogger.com/profile/02805126173325772698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598742.post-9425468160233399542010-09-28T11:58:00.000-07:002010-09-28T12:00:17.017-07:00

For an upcoming feature, I need sources who remember where they were when John Lennon was killed. Particularly, but not exclusively, New Yorkers. Feel free to share. Thanks!

Litsa Dremousis:http://www.blogger.com/profile/02805126173325772698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598742.post-51372527997833769272010-09-26T21:11:00.000-07:002010-09-27T07:35:35.387-07:00

TNBLE Seattle Edition, shot by super-talented Emergency Press photographer, Kymberlee della Luce:http://www.flickr.com/photos/unbridled_expression/sets/72157624914530461/

Litsa Dremousis:http://www.blogger.com/profile/02805126173325772698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598742.post-32089980570596780962010-09-26T20:03:00.000-07:002010-09-26T20:12:35.447-07:00

Especially resonates tonight."Please slow it downthere's a secret magic past world that you only notice when you're looking back at itall I wanna do is turn aroundI'm going down to sleep on the bottom of the oceanbecause I couldn't let go when the water hit the setting sunpassing white daisies taking turnsclose the door walk into the streetcatching raindrops on your tongueand for a minute it all

Litsa Dremousis:http://www.blogger.com/profile/02805126173325772698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598742.post-13969839345804285452010-09-24T19:00:00.000-07:002010-09-24T19:08:32.492-07:00

Grand slam, touchdown, three-pointer, all that: last night's The Nervous Breakdown Literary Experience (TNBLE), Seattle Edition was a rousing success! Capacity house filled with a delightfully kinetic audience and a roster of deeply talented authors who brought it. In addition to overseeing the event and emceeing, I read part of my upcoming novel, Antifreeze. I'm so fucking sick today it actually

Litsa Dremousis:http://www.blogger.com/profile/02805126173325772698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598742.post-14437696874163997862010-09-21T18:00:00.000-07:002010-09-21T18:03:21.551-07:00

..."a half dozen of the city's most lauded authors":http://downtownseattle.komonews.com/content/seattles-best-authors-come-together-literary-eventDeeply flattering!If we let you down, we'll do your laundry.

Litsa Dremousis:http://www.blogger.com/profile/02805126173325772698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598742.post-21224131697429962232010-09-19T13:00:00.000-07:002010-09-19T13:37:19.207-07:00

I never pontificate to readers because I trust you're smart and informed. You don't need me to tell you what's occurring the world.I know everyone's lives are brimming with good and with chaos, i.e we've all got a whole lot going on, but if you get a chance, please consider donating to the relief and rebuilding efforts in Pakistan. Its floods have received little attention, but two million people

Litsa Dremousis:http://www.blogger.com/profile/02805126173325772698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598742.post-6476613592480009002010-09-16T23:59:00.000-07:002010-09-17T00:03:13.675-07:00

Quoth:"This is a big goddamned reading of local authors that serves as a west-coast franchise of the popular online magazine for writers. Sean Beaudoin, Aaron Dietz, Litsa Dremousis, Tom Hansen, Lauren Hoffman, and Matthew Simmons."More:http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Event?event=4882845

Litsa Dremousis:http://www.blogger.com/profile/02805126173325772698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598742.post-65365978655047023582010-09-15T00:44:00.000-07:002010-09-15T00:48:43.208-07:00

This merits a much longer post, or perhaps it's best served by simplicity, but for the past 48 hours, I've encountered utterly delightful humans and I'm grateful and then grateful some more.Plus, I've got a puppy curled up next to me and for now, at least, a welcome stillness prevails.

Litsa Dremousis:http://www.blogger.com/profile/02805126173325772698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598742.post-22950166537009999862010-09-15T00:38:00.000-07:002010-09-15T00:44:19.843-07:00

I interviewed him for The Nervous Breakdown:http://www.thenervousbreakdown.com/ldremousis/2010/09/pakistan-drowned-in-the-waters-of-the-lion-river/Also, TNB's editor-in-chief and founder, the estimable Brad Listi (Attention. Deficit. Disorder.) was just interviewed by the National Book Critics Circle:http://bookcritics.org/blog/archive/conversations_with_literary_websites_the_nervous_breakdown/

Litsa Dremousis:http://www.blogger.com/profile/02805126173325772698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598742.post-71552281456871324392010-09-12T03:13:00.000-07:002010-09-12T03:18:21.007-07:00

...giving comfort instead of seeking it, explaining they were taking action, and that everything would be O.K. And then they rose as one, they acted as one, and together they changed history's course." --Michelle Obama at the tribute to Flight 93 passengers

Litsa Dremousis:http://www.blogger.com/profile/02805126173325772698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598742.post-47103349225573381282010-09-08T11:40:00.000-07:002010-09-08T11:41:46.280-07:00

Goddamnit, we just might pull this off:http://www.thenervousbreakdown.com/ldremousis/2010/09/announcing-the-nervous-breakdown-literary-experience-seattle-edition/#comment-99898

Litsa Dremousis:http://www.blogger.com/profile/02805126173325772698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598742.post-52630782810028709252010-09-08T04:44:00.001-07:002010-09-08T05:04:32.594-07:00

It's strange I brought Thomas home only three weeks ago because we bonded instantly and I've been astounded how rapidly the little guy has changed everything for the better. It's not that I'm no longer grieving, but that sense of being pummeled by a 2' x 4' throughout each day has been staved. Thomas is preternaturally intelligent and sweet tempered--he loves observing seagulls and squirrels but

Litsa Dremousis:http://www.blogger.com/profile/02805126173325772698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598742.post-62052329418144056002010-09-05T11:23:00.000-07:002010-09-05T11:55:14.020-07:00

From Ma'chell Duma LaVassar at the Seattle Weekly:http://www.seattleweekly.com/2010-09-01/music/in-defense-of-courtney/

Litsa Dremousis:http://www.blogger.com/profile/02805126173325772698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598742.post-71523257825369129132010-09-01T11:24:00.000-07:002010-09-01T17:39:57.128-07:00

My new feature for Nerve on how Mom and Dad met and overcame my iron-willed grandmother's opposition is up:http://nerve.com/before-you-were-born/the-dremousisThey've got the front page now. High five, parents!

Litsa Dremousis:http://www.blogger.com/profile/02805126173325772698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598742.post-84191808813198052482010-08-31T09:42:00.000-07:002010-08-31T11:47:53.576-07:00

An intersection of lit and wit featuring Seattle-based authors who write for the lauded arts and culture site, The Nervous Breakdown: Sean Beaudoin (Going Nowhere Faster, Fade to Blue, You Killed Wesley Payne), Aaron Dietz (Superheroes), Litsa Dremousis (Esquire, The Believer, Paste, the Seattle Weekly, Nerve, the forthcoming novel, Antifreeze), Tom Hansen (American Junkie), Lauren Hoffman (the

Litsa Dremousis:http://www.blogger.com/profile/02805126173325772698noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598742.post-70471729539492256312010-08-29T09:58:00.000-07:002010-08-29T10:04:04.253-07:00

Last week made 19 years since I became ill.Thrilled that a treatment might loom.Hugely vindicating that the more is learned about CFIDS, the more science corroborates what those of us who have it and our loved ones know: it's pernicious, frequently degenerative and, obviously, real.From the New York Times, August 23, 2010:http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/24/health/research/24fatigue.html?_r=1&

Litsa Dremousis:http://www.blogger.com/profile/02805126173325772698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598742.post-52858528478307241182010-08-28T11:20:00.000-07:002010-08-29T09:43:40.264-07:00

Today marks ten days since I brought Thomas home. I love the little guy immensely and am incredibly touched by everyone's well wishes and offers to answer questions as they arise.Bemused, however, by how many act as though I now have a "real" pet when, of course, that's exactly what I had for the previous twelve years. Contrary to common perception, rabbits are highly intelligent and interactive.

Litsa Dremousis:http://www.blogger.com/profile/02805126173325772698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598742.post-78913278594476641522010-08-26T18:22:00.000-07:002010-08-26T18:26:51.565-07:00

Every once in awhile I encounter someone who doesn't find Wanda Sykes prescient and hilarious and I know this person should be avoided forevermore.

Litsa Dremousis:http://www.blogger.com/profile/02805126173325772698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598742.post-78765054440445453212010-08-25T04:24:00.000-07:002010-08-25T04:44:44.100-07:00

Spent a delightful two hours in the park today, mostly. I'm unsure if the police have done a sweep of the U District or Belltown and the junkies and meth-heads migrated up here in larger numbers than usual, if the full moon last night lanced everyone's craziness or if it coincidence, but poor Thomas couldn't quite relax at said park because two meth-heads, apropos of nothing, started screaming

Litsa Dremousis:http://www.blogger.com/profile/02805126173325772698noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598742.post-74520250112147974682010-08-23T11:35:00.000-07:002010-08-23T11:47:19.738-07:00

Occasionally, life works as it should.On Thursday, I brought home a puppy. For the past year and a half, I'd been saving for one. I knew that when the last of the bunnies died, I'd grieve and save and a year or so after, I'd get a small dog. Of course, I didn't anticipate what happened in October and the horror of adjusting to it.The puppy is a five and a half month-old blue Pomeranian and, as

Litsa Dremousis:http://www.blogger.com/profile/02805126173325772698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598742.post-7363523637073523992010-08-18T23:07:00.000-07:002010-08-18T23:14:57.226-07:00

Yeah, I know: baby Holland Lops on the Internet. But if you're having a week like mine wherein you've considered severing your femoral artery and/or viewing Dane Cook's stand-up, watching bunnies frolic ranks as a sentient choice.

Litsa Dremousis:http://www.blogger.com/profile/02805126173325772698noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598742.post-80987093209226028102010-08-16T15:11:00.000-07:002010-08-16T15:16:44.635-07:00

I've been celebrating by writing all day. And, of course, by getting blind drunk and nailing a once-beautiful woman with a now slightly large ass while the neighbors wail and break things.And I offer my McSweeney's piece from 2004, "If Charles Bukowski Had Written Children's Books":http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/lists/bukowski.htmlThe Whore Who SnoredWhy is Grandpa Heaving?The Years Will Fly

Litsa Dremousis:http://www.blogger.com/profile/02805126173325772698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598742.post-37290777676397187582010-08-15T14:12:00.000-07:002010-08-15T14:18:18.947-07:00

...and speak comfort to that grief which they themselves not feel."--Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing"Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved."--Iris Murdoch

Litsa Dremousis:http://www.blogger.com/profile/02805126173325772698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598742.post-41968523189127024682010-08-15T09:21:00.000-07:002010-08-15T09:23:23.871-07:00

...Bill Murray's line from Groundhog Day, "Morons, your bus is leaving" as my mantra, will it defeat the point?

Litsa Dremousis:http://www.blogger.com/profile/02805126173325772698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598742.post-36058730136397367472010-08-12T15:15:00.000-07:002010-08-12T15:37:09.581-07:00

1) Ephemeral New York ponders the lesser-known glories and horrors of New York. Richly curated; one of my favorites:http://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/2) I don't want a mosque at Ground Zero for the same reason I don't want a church or temple at Ground Zero: religion, along with poverty and illiteracy, fuels most wars and is a huge element of this one. Honor the 9/11 dead and their loved ones

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...and because I had to scan photos for an upcoming feature, I went on a scanning bender.While it's been a creatively invigorating summer, the rest of it, for reasons obvious and less so, has been difficult. Really enjoy that I'm writing the most I have in three years and it's been good to rendezvous with friends. The flip side is that the constant writing and deadlines aren't improving my health

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I've said this before, but unless gays stir plutonium into the mix, there's no way they're going to fuck up marriage as much as straights have. (Though, presumably, GLAAD isn't going to adopt this as a talking point.) Incredibly happy Proposition #8 was ruled unconstitutional. As for the yammering about judicial activism, as my mom (a retired attorney) put it yesterday, history has demonstrated

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...for an upcoming piece.Easy part? We're super-close.Downside? If I fuck this up, I'll never hear the end of it.

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...The Nervous Breakdown now:http://www.thenervousbreakdown.com/ldremousis/2010/08/the-mirror-maze/Things are both more and less real tonight.

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We celebrated Dad's 77th birthday and Mom and Dad's 46th anniversary (which was recently) in one big joyful amalgam yesterday and there was much banter and sumptuous food and it was a splendid, rejuvenating afternoon. (And my brother, who is reflexively hilarious, made one of his funniest comments maybe ever, but I'm not going to repeat it here. Also, he told me something deeply sweet, but that

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Certain things are returning to normal.Dropped by the Seattle Weekly offices late yesterday afternoon to turn in the updated freelancer contract. I'm completing my newest essay for The Nervous Breakdown right now and I received another assignment from Nerve that's due soon and all of this pleases me tremendously. I've always derived great joy from my work and know how lucky I am to say it and

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It's not yet 10:00 a.m. PST and I've been recommended by two colleagues and excoriated by a racist porn actress.Doing my job right, I suppose.

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...and its potential danger to the blood supply.From the Wall Street Journal, July 26th:http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2010/07/26/fda-advisory-committee-to-hear-about-xmrv-working-groups-research/

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...and the author event tonight at Moe Bar is up now. This one's online only:http://blogs.seattleweekly.com/reverb/2010/07/book_signing_with_justin_hende.php

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...with the left because if the hateful things he spewed came from the right, he'd be apoplectic. Under the auspices of presenting history from an internationalist point of view, which is honorable, he attacks Jews, which is deplorable. Stone proves it's possible to be a well-read idiot:http://www.thewrap.com/movies/column-post/oliver-stone-jews-dominate-media-19557?page=0,0

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