I Love Sarah Vowell

Sarah Vowell is supremely talented, hilarious, and adorably geeky. Her new book, "Assassination Vacation", is a fantastic read. In case you aren't familiar, she discusses the events surrounding the assassinations of Lincoln, Garfield, and McKinley, while visiting sites related to the principals involved.
I heard her read today, and I was both star struck and seriously crushing on her.

Good book?

OMG! To....John?!

All of her books are highly entertaining, though "Radio On" is sort of a slog.

There's a little video-essay by her in the features section of The Incredibles DVD. There's a funny bit where they animated her character, Violet, to audio of her shooting a cannon with her dad.

She told the story of her dad's cannon on "This American Life" and it was in "Take the Cannoli". It was pretty interesting.

I'll buy her.



[Edited on Apr 18, 2005 by Lemonkid]

Yeah, I love Sarah Vowell. I think she has the cutest voice.

Sarah Vowell thread. Must post. And then find out if she's coming to a local bookstore. I was so happy about how they gave her a special feature on The Incredibles. Hell, I was thrilled that they thought to cast her in The Incredibles.

[Edited on Apr 18, 2005 by TedKoppel]

I ♥ her too. She makes me feel all squooshy.

I saw her read the end of last month. She's quite funny.

does not compute!

Stockula a fan of Sarah Vowell. brain melting......NPR is not NRA....help me someone!

She was on Dave a couple of weeks ago, I stopped fantacising about the grinder girl(Kiva) for 7 whole minutes.

She was also great in Gigantic, the They Might Be Giants documentary.

First time I saw Sarah on tee-vee (Conan O'Brien, I think), my friend Tony was sitting next to me. When the interview was over, he turned... waited... then pointed at me and taunted in a sing-song voice "ROBert's iiNN LOOve!"

And, y'know? He was right. Went out and bought Take the Cannoli the next day. Just something about her voice + her cynicism... gah. Crap, time to go clean myself off now.

She is to boy NPR listeners what Ira Glass is to the girl NPR listeners.

She's on the Daily Show tonight!!!!! Watch 'kay?

I absolutely adore Sarah Vowell. The Partly Cloudy Patriot is a great book. I think I have another book to run out and buy.

Didn't say I was a fan. But I liked the cannon story about how she bonded with her gun-nut dad. I've never really heard or read anything else by her.

i just recently found out that she did the voice of Violet in The Incredibles.
very cute voice....

[Edited on Apr 20, 2005 by stockula]

Just to let you know, the bonding with her gun-nut dad goes against most of her other views. She is most definitely a liberal.

Saw her last night on The Daily Show. It was hilarious! Stewart did the voice of Garfield in the audio book, and their give and take was great.

But I kept waiting for the Odie joke that never came.



[Edited on Apr 20, 2005 by skeptik]

I managed to catch most of it.