Witness the Literary Death Match! Part of San Francisco’s Litquake festival, sponsored by Opium Magazine.  

Last year at this event, Stephen Elliott threw his beer all over Howard Junker.  

Steve Yarbrough will be there, as well.  Fresno will be fully represented!  Steve was my very first creative writing teacher.  I was a disaffected 17 year old truant who somehow managed to persuade the administration at Fresno State to let me take Steve’s fiction workshop.  He probably saved my life.  I don’t think we’ll throw beer on each other.

The most popular search engine phrases used to find this blog/thing*, apart from the obvious “Katherine Taylor,” are variations on “facebook makes me feel bad”  or “facebook makes me uncomfortable” or “why is facebook like high school?” etc etc etc.

Thank you, wordpress stats page, for confirming I am not the only one mildly unnerved by facebook.

*thanks to Zack Woolfe for coining the useful term blog/thing.

The US Open is bad for my work.  Every year around this time, I can spend two full weeks compulsively watching tennis on television.  I don’t even have a television.  If I had a television, I’d never get any work done ever again.

This year, Zack Woolfe is blogging about the Open at the NY Observer.  I don’t like the word blog, but that’s what he’s doing.  Check it out, please.  I’m confident you’ll admire his sense for news and his subject headings as much as I do.