Aghast (a-gassed?) but not absorbed…
Sat, 22/05/10 – 16:06 | 4 Comments

This was a tough week to be a news junkie.  But I need news.  I need information.  Am I torturing myself?  Or being a well-informed citizen?  You tell me.  (really, please… tell me!)

We’ve all …

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GenX Pandora

Lizzie and Jane are on the cusp of GenX. We continually search for our spot (past and present) in the great game of generational generalization.

Heretic Chicks

Spirituality as continually redesigned by Lizzie and Jane

Inside The Box

Lizzie and Jane’s brewing stew of back and forth trouble that hasn’t yet been loosed upon the world…

Lists upon lists upon lists

Because there’s nothing you can’t put on a list

Outside The Box

Everything else Lizzie and Jane are thinking about…

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A tale of chicken nuggets, corn flakes, and Schleprock…
Sun, 23/05/10 – 17:20 | 4 Comments

I hate to whine about myself here, for a few reasons: Lizzie and I promised one another, when we conceived Pandoration,  there would be no personal whining.  Unless of course it was funny.  Another reason is because everyone I know, knows who "Jane" really is. This makes talking about myself, or them, either impossible or impossibly uncomfortable.  Outing yourself kinda blows that whole anonymous, pseudonym thing.  In my own egotistical case, it was  ultimately a choice between blabbing with impunity versus showing off.  We all know I chose the attention seeking prize behind the curtain.  And I guess, number three would have to be that no one likes a blogging Andy Rooney.  A lot of you young’ens wouldn’t even know what a blogging (or [...] Continue Reading…

Jane & Lizzie in the Land Of Believers Part 3: The Caribou Hunt of Denial
Mon, 3/05/10 – 14:25 | No Comment
Jane & Lizzie in the Land Of Believers Part 3: The Caribou Hunt of Denial

  Jane:   Before Gina Welch’s final preparations for the Alaskan Salt and Light Evangelical mission, her mother arrived for a visit.  They had a great conversation about a Phillip Roth public radio interview. Roth …

Jane and Lizzie in the Land of Believers Part 2: Feeling X and Baptism
Wed, 28/04/10 – 22:37 | No Comment

Jane:  Gina Welch’s journey into the world of Thomas Road Baptist Church began with her experience at the Scaremare house of horrors/sins.  Room after bloody, shocking room depicted a multitude of sins.  After being …

Jane and Lizzie in the Land of Believers
Thu, 25/02/10 – 13:51 | 6 Comments
Jane and Lizzie in the Land of Believers

LIZZIE Well, Jane and I are feeling quite official as book reviewers now–seems our piece last year on Kevin Roose’s Unlikely Disciple was unearthed by a marketing director at Henry Holt Publishing.  And, as a …

What I Learned from Holden Caulfield
Fri, 29/01/10 – 12:03 | No Comment
What I Learned from Holden Caulfield

What I learned from Holden Caulfield, whom I got to know in Mrs. Levinson’s 11th-grade English class (where Jane sat a few seats behind me, by the way)…. As a reader: An honest-to-goodness …

‘Twas the Night Before the Tablet
Wed, 27/01/10 – 8:47 | No Comment

UPDATE: And here it is!  Follow the presentation of the new iPad and check out all the cool things it does! GDGT LIVE APPLE COVERAGE OF …

Among The Hmong: You Are Not My Everything…Part 3 of Our Consideration in Many Parts
Sun, 17/01/10 – 12:20 | No Comment
Among The Hmong: You Are Not My Everything…Part 3 of Our Consideration in Many Parts

image: Eric Zener "Air" oil/canvas Gallery Henoch Jane:  So last week found me lagging in my reading of Committed.  Lots to do around the house, with the kids,  I wasn’t making the time …

Part 2: A Consideration in Many Parts… and Schmaltzy-Weepy Bathroom Floor Moment(s)
Wed, 13/01/10 – 13:02 | One Comment
Part 2:  A Consideration in Many Parts… and Schmaltzy-Weepy Bathroom Floor Moment(s)

So, to continue from the last post, why did the lovely, exuberant, enjoyable restless, replete-with-sensory-feasting memoir Eat, Pray, Love sit on my shelf for months during 2008/2009?  And why did it finally come off the …

A Consideration, in many parts, of Elizabeth Gilbert’s “Committed”
Sun, 10/01/10 – 21:01 | 3 Comments
A Consideration, in many parts, of Elizabeth Gilbert’s “Committed”

Jane So I have to admit, before I even began to read this book, there has been a tremendous amount of conversation going on around me regarding Elizabeth Gilbert, …

Musings on a not-quite-so-recent weekend of music
Tue, 22/12/09 – 17:27 | 2 Comments
Musings on a not-quite-so-recent weekend of music

Jane At the end of the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, HBO aired the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, 25th Anniversary concert.   I usually approach these sort of things with a modicum of wary disdain …

An Open Letter to You, our Dear Readers
Mon, 23/11/09 – 15:38 | 2 Comments
An Open Letter to You, our Dear Readers

Dear Readers,  Wow, it’s been a long time since we’ve been here.  We both miss you, and posting here, terribly.  Jane and I talk over the phone fairly frequently, and in amidst our respective trials …