More than once while reading State by State, I’d turn to Brian and say, “Let’s move to _______.” Brian’s response was almost always, “Ok. [pause] You know how cold it gets there, right?” While it is unlikely that I will have the opportunity to live in every state, that is the response I had hoped this book would evoke in me. For the most part, it did not let me down. Read more »
We came home from running errands to discover that our cable had finally been turned off. Probably the hardest part for me (aside from Bravo’s refusal to put its programming on Hulu) is that for nearly 10 years, I have set the timer on my television every night, and fallen asleep with The Daily Show or a Keith Olbermann replay as background noise. Last night I felt fairly virtuous going to bed with a book in my hand – it’s been a very long time since I did that.
