Lynne Simpson

iTunes: If Everyone Cared, by Nickelback John and I periodically do a Jane Austen movie marathon, affectionately nicknamed JaneStock. Last time around, we watched the Colin Firth/Jennifer Ehle P&P (for about the millionth time), the 1999 Mansfield Park, and the 1986 Northanger Abbey. The Northanger Abbey adaptation was seriously goofy. The highlight of the final [...]

I never thought I’d be saying this, but it’s official:  we have too many books. Although we’ve filled 33 boxes and 8 plastic bins, we’re maybe halfway done. And the movers will be here in under 15 hours. Gah! The cats are already ensconced in their new digs, but they have yet to explore any [...]

John and I usually aren’t the types to get cold feet about a decision. Maybe it’s something to do with both of us being Fire signs? (He’s very Leo; I’m way Aries.) Last Thursday, we both caught a major case of cold feet about the new house. We even deleted all our blog posts about [...]

Pathological liars existed before the Internet. No doubt about that. But the Internet obscures the chemical and visual cues that might tip you off in a face-to-face interaction. I followed a link from Dear Author’s über-thread on the most recent plagiarism scandal to a story in LA Weekly about a long-distance Internet romance that turned [...]

I tell ya, folks are way too trusting of authority figures. Years ago, when I first read about those Milgram obedience studies, it blew my mind that people would keep on following instructions to administer electrical shocks, even though they had every reason to believe they’d incapacitated or even killed the subject. The Ogburn case [...]