// Things We Like
Things We Like: Getting Sonny, Taking Vacations and Putting the Kettel OnIn which we visit Corn Island, wear some big ugly hats, and do the dishes while a “sorcerer-to-be” rocks the heck out on a harpsichord. Good times.
// Lies and Entertainment
Five Ideas for a Better HollywoodA fresh-out-of-college teacher agrees to teach in an inner-city high school. It’s a mess, but he finds that he can connect with the kids by teaching them … ventriloquism.
// Seattle
It Never RainsYou’re talking about water falling from the sky in great cascades; fat raindrops smacking against windshields and rooftops. We rarely get to see anything like that up here in Seattle.
// Stories and Appreciations
Allow Me to VentThere always seems to be some family heirloom that people fight over, whether it’s for the financial value of the object or for sentimental reasons. In my husband’s family, that object is Hector, a ventriloquist’s dummy.





