Unfortunately, I kept thinking of that Gilligan’s Island episode in which Ginger acts out an excruciatingly long and melodramatic death scene. You keep thinking her every last gasp is really it. But then she keeps rolling around and twitching because she’s been peeking through her fingers all along and knows you’re still watching.
* Local writer Holly Jones has a new Dispatch from the Anacostia, which follows the lives of volunteers in the Earth Conservation Corps. The April update follows Gemini‘s dentist drama, introduces an unwanted long-legged text-messager, and reveals a new family development: “I’ve got to move out of that house. You know I found out that woman [her housemate] isn’t even my cousin?”