I stopped by Emily Lockhart’s blog today with my list of Boyfriends I Never Had (and Why We Would Make a Great Match). Discussed: Why Tony Blair (pre-Bush) lights my fire; my common ground (sex and church) with the alto god Nick Cave; Loyd Cole gets Nabokovian; Steve Forbert and the Mississippi connection; what Vince Vaughn’s got that you ain’t got; and the appeal of KT Tunstall (pictured below…my husband came upon this pic and had to do a double-take, because he thought it was me! Whenever my two-year-old sees KT singing on TV, he says, “Look! Mommy music!”).

And while we’re on the subject of musicians, I’ve finally put together the playlist for my new novel, San Francisco Chronicle bestseller THE YEAR OF FOG. See it here on largehearted boy. It’s a mostly moody, San Francisco-centric mix, including Wilco, Beautiful South, Walty, Chris Isaak, Yo La Tengo, Laura Cantrell, and others.