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"Weird Al:" The Poet of Our Generation
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... you finish thine/Then tonight we're gonna party like it's 1699." In "The Saga Begins" off of 1999's Running with Scissors , Don McLean's "American Pie" becomes the tune for a vivid retelling of Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace . Weird Al ... Comment?
Audio Books - Diverse Christmas treats
... lies inside. Burroughs, who has made a small fortune off his childhood of misery via memoirs such as Running With Scissors , has a distinctive literary voice that is alternately whiny and nasty. Matters aren't helped by the author choosing to read ... Comment?
Running With Scissors Presents Silent Night of the Lambs
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Put on your parkas and shi Ne Yo ur snow boots: Running With Scissors is heading north for the holidays - waaaaay north! We're flying far above the Arctic Circle, to the land of Santa Claus, sleigh bells, and suspense, with Ryan Landry's camp comedy, SILENT NIGHT OF THE LAMBS! Life on the North Pole ain't what it used to be: Rudolph's long gone, ... Comment?
Christmas invite from Augusten Burroughs: Review
... in a different league altogether. Such was the fate of Augusten Burroughs, the best-selling author of Running with Scissors. It's the basis for one of the holiday-themed tales in his new volume of short stories, You Better Not Cry. "This was a new ... Comment?
Music supervisor PJ Bloom had worked with writer-director-producer Ryan Murphy on the series "Popular" and "Nip/Tuck" and the film "Running With Scissors." But Bloom was bemused when Murphy told him about his new project. Comment?
Funny and touching short stories of holidays past and pretend
... Burroughs St. Martin's Press, $21.99 What it's about: As in his bestseller Running With Scissors , Burroughs mines his life, telling stories that combine sweet, shocking and scandalous observations. There are seven short ... Comment?
Augusten's Twisted Christmas Memories
... life is a jarring juxtaposition of tragic and comic is something apparent in his colossal achievement, Running With Scissors, and the parallel leitmotif can be found in these holiday-themed essays. When reached in New York, where he lives, hea TMs ... Comment?
... pages, $21.99) Burroughs is the master of making tragedy funny, with memoirs of a dark childhood in "Running With Scissors" and alcoholism in "Dry." "You Better Not Cry" is no exception. Burroughs follows his own strange relationship with Christmas ... Comment?
Silent Night of the Lambs
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... and Dorian Rush star as Santa Claus and Clarice Starling in Silent Night of the Lambs. The cast of Running With Scissors is running through a rehearsal of Silent Night of the Lambs , a holiday-wrapped Silence of the Lambs set in the North Pole. ... Comment?
Augusten Burroughs on surviving the holidays
His chaotic upbringing, documented in his debut book, Running With Scissors, made him a poster boy for survivors of dysfunctional families, so it's not a bit surprising that Augusten Burroughs tackles what is for many the mother of all dysfunctional periods, the Christmas holidays, in his latest book, You Better Not Cry: Stories for Christmas . Comment?
Novel offers holiday irreverance
... Some take readers to familiar terrain -- Burroughs' childhood, so vividly captured in his debut memoir Running with Scissors -- while others give us a glimpse of his adult life as a best-selling, middle-aged writer living with his partner in western ... Comment?
Splashy feature debut for the man behind the cable-television series Nip/Tuck , writer-director Ryan Murphy, a hey-look-at-me cannonball, adapted from the "memoir" of Augusten Burroughs. Comment?
... Some take readers to familiar terrain - Burroughs' childhood, so vividly captured in his debut memoir 'Running with Scissors' - while others give us a glimpse of his adult life as a best-selling, middle-aged writer living with his partner in Western ... Comment?
Boozy Augusten Burroughs spins tales of Christmas cheer
... Some take readers to familiar terrain - Burroughs' childhood, so vividly captured in his debut memoir "Running with Scissors" - while others give us a glimpse of his adult life as a best-selling, middle-age writer living with his partner in western ... Comment?
Quote this entry on your blog! If you want to quote or post " ...Why Do You Think I Moved to New York? " on your blog, just copy this code: ...Why Do You Think I Moved to New York? Trendy undergrad #1: You should read "Dry." it's by the guy who wrote "Running with Scissors." it's when he moves to New York and becomes an alcoholic.Trendy ... Comment?
'Venting' delivers twists and turns with a dose of comedy
... the basement - as a girl. And don't think the twists stop there. Reminiscent of Augusten Burroughs' "Running with Scissors," "Venting" presents a tangled web of dysfunction, perhaps best described inadvertently by Milo, the "daughter" living in the ... Comment?
... this is where I'd usually put some narrative pretext, but Postal doesn't have one. Maybe the guys at Running With Scissors left that blank so players could superimpose their own miserable realities onto the game. Oh, but who needs a reason to go on ... Comment?
Author pouts in print about his unhappy holidays
It's not uncommon for people to say that their holidays don't live up to a Norman Rockwell painting, but Augusten Burroughs says his holidays have been "hideous." The best-selling author of books like "Running With Scissors" and "Dry" has compiled a book of essays about those dreadful experiences called "You Better Not Cry" . During a recent ... Comment?
Lecture: Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's
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... by alcoholism, mental illness, and abuse. Robison's brother, Augusten Burroughs, authored the book Running with Scissors , a New York Times best-seller that was made into a motion picture. Co-sponsored by Commonwealth College and the Residential ... Comment?
Author shares holiday stories
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... dreadful holiday stories in his new book, "You Better Not Cry." The best-selling author of books like "Running with Scissors" and "Dry" has compiled a book of essays about those dreadful experiences called "You Better Not Cry" (St. Martin's Press, ... Comment?