The Slippery Fish

Archives for Litsa Dremousis, 2003-2011. Current site: https://litsadremousis.com. Litsa Dremousis is the author of Altitude Sickness (Future Tense Books). Seattle Metropolitan Magazine named it one of the all-time "20 Books Every Seattleite Must Read". Her essay "After the Fire" was selected as one of the "Most Notable Essays 2011” by Best American Essays, and The Seattle Weekly named her one of "50 Women Who Rock Seattle". She is an essayist with The Washington Post.

Five Things Worth Noting about 2008 before I Start Getting Ready to Head out the Door:

Or at least the next round of doughnuts at Top Pot:

My Facebook Status Updates from the Evening of November 3rd until the Present that More or Less Bring Us up to Date for Our Purposes Here:

A brief summation before the unicorns take flight:

David Axelrod, call me:

Facebook, Day #6:

Seconded:

In a strange way, I feel sorry...

And if the markets are like this next year, the ground will expel Mitt Romney's hair follicles and scores of two-headed earthworms:

The VP Debate Summarized in Two Haikus:

So much I'm going to catch up on here in the next couple of days...

Would they prefer 'lipstick on a jackass'?

Okay, kids, here goes:

A Highly Truncated Account of the DNC So Far:

The avalanche

Essential truths:

"And you may say to yourself/ 'My God! What have I done?'"--Talking Heads

"There's a story in the book in which I wound up in a waiting room, in France, in my underpants. And everybody else...

You are so fucked, dude:

Things I Would Rather Do Than Explain Writing to Those Who Don't Write: