Meatloaf Love: The Sequel

by marionroach on April 30, 2009

meatloafM EATLOAF MADE ME DO IT. There is no other explanation I can think of, and while that is a tautology, I know, I offer it anyway: Meatloaf made us write about meatloaf. We have succumbed and are sinking further, daily, into the warm, aromatic, comfort that is meatloaf. My name is Marion and I am powerless not to write about meatloaf. Fine. I admit it, as well as the obvious fact that eating meatloaf begets writing about meatloaf, begets eating more meatloaf begets… [click to continue…]

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Ann and Abby: Food Fight!

by marionroach on April 24, 2009

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AP photograph of twins Abby and Ann

DEAR ABBY HAD SISTER ISSUES. The famous advice columnist had a twin sister who grew up to be known as Ann Landers, the name of another famed advice column. And you’d think by the nature of their work that the sisters would have the skills to live in sibling harmony. Ah, no. In fact, there were many years that the twins did not speak. [click to continue…]

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