Mollytics!

Back in another blogging life, I blogged about my girl crush on the fabulous Sarah Vowell:

Ok, so a looker- she is not. But really, who is? And she’s funny and smart and witty and into history… how freaking cool is that? I wish I knew her… we’d be the best of friends. We could take roadtrips- I’d drive because she doesn’t have her license- and go visit morbid, yet fascinating, presidential landmarks. It would be incredible… Incredibly twisted.

Also- she has a masters in Art History. Again, hi!??! Can we be best friends?

Wow. I was totes shallow in June of 2006, wasn’t I? Hopefully that’s changed (says the woman who named her blog after… herself). Oh well, what’s done is done and I can’t pretend that I didn’t write that because my blogging history is there for all to read. Unfortunate as that might be.

Anyway, I was devastated to learn that Sarah Vowell will be at DC’s own kick-ass bookstore, Politics and Prose, to discuss her new book, The Wordy Shipmates… and yours truly can’t make it. Travesty alert!

Still, thanks to the DCist, I have their interview with Vowell to read, cherish, and enjoy…. with the remains of my Malbec. Here’s a particularly delicious snippet (which, I’ll admit, has nothing to do with her book):

I bet. So are you going to watch the debate tonight?

Oh yeah.

Here in D.C., people gather, you know every bar in town will be packed tonight with people watching the debate. Do people do the same kind of thing in New York?

There’s a little bit of that, sure, but it’s not like D.C. I lived in D.C. for a little bit of time after college, and it seemed like people gather in D.C. to watch specific votes on C-SPAN.

Ha, sometimes.

I can imagine a real showbiz event like a debate would be like that times ten.

Where did you live when you lived here?

Adams Morgan, over by the Zoo.

When was that?

1993.

Oh wow, so have you seen Adams Morgan since then?

I guess I’ve been to Dupont Circle a few times but, no, why?

It’s pretty different.

It was all like, Ethiopian restaurants as I recall.

Well all of 18th Street is now one bar after another, it’s where people get drunk and throw up in the street.

I just remember it was the fall, and coming from Montana where it’s mostly evergreen trees, I was so charmed by my whole neighborhood, all the sidewalks were carpeted with leaves. It was very picturesque.

Sarah Vowell is so neat-o.

the coolest of the cool

Also, from a design perspective, her book covers really rock it out.