HBO’s consistently great TV shows have always had a literary bent, but recently the cable network has been going straight to the source to develop new shows. Perhaps spurned by the success of Jonathan Ames’s Bored to Death (based on a short story published in McSweeney’s), HBO announced last month that it was adapting Jenifer Egan’s Pulitzer-winning A Visit From the Goon Squad and this month has announced it is developing a comedy with TFT favorite Sam Lipsyte. Hollywood Reporter has the scoop:
The offbeat comedy, People City, centers on a 25-year-old man hired by an eccentric New York couple to be their child’s caretaker.
Sam Lipsyte, whose most recent novel The Ask was published by FSG last year, will write and executive produce alongside Michael London and Jocelyn Hays Simpson (both of whom are also producing on A Visit From the Goon Squad). Exciting news for fans of great writing and interesting television.
this has got to be the goofiest sports event i have ever seen.
via ree
so i call down to the landlord, and yes, i know my cell phone is shitty but we get into an abbott and costello routine over who he is actually speaking to. maybe he had an even louder fan purchased sometime in the mesozoic made from teradactyl wings. (i have no idea if dinosaurs existed then. another demerit for myself and the american school system.) he calls me by nearly every name of every other tenant in the building including that of his eighty plus year old best friend living on the floor below. at first i was sure he was making a joke but by the end while literally screaming into the phone i just accepted whatever name he was calling me at the time, that being "al", my upstair neighbor.
once the name puzzle had been solved we got on to the meat of the conversation. i shrieked into the phone at least a half a dozen times that the heat was on in the building before the pilot light in his head caught wind of what i was trying to impart, and undoubtedly the knit in his brow at that moment turned from confusion to consternation. "i'll go switch it off," he said with an exasperated tone. "that's costing me money!" i couldnt argue with that logic and shouted my approval before hanging up.
part one: my fav green is in the market, it has a nice crunch when cooked light and it keeps the yellow flowers intact, added what could be the last of the wild asparagus and spring onions that are loosing the spring
With a restaurant in Milwaukie and mobile tamale kitchens at several local farmers’ markets (notably the Thursday evening Buckman Farmers’ Market), Canby Asparagus Farm has cornered the market on asparagus tamales. Choose between chicken and asparagus, pork and asparagus, and “asparagus only” and layer on the salsa and crema for a kicky take on the steamed and stuffed staple.
Canby Asparagus Farm, Casa de Tamales, 10605 SE Main St., Milwaukie and at local farmers markets.
