if’n you go and decide to get a new tattoo, here’s a little advice, eat first. at least once during the day. i haven’t eaten anything but some chewy sprees since lunch yesterday. my stomach is never gonna forgive me.
but the new tat rocks the casbah. totally rocks. i feel all tough like a biker [...]

i feel like a supergenius. i’m watching Laurel Canyon and the song the guy was singing was so, so, so familiar. i could even sing along with it, “there’s something going on around here, i could not crawl back if I tried, i couldn’t wait around, i couldn’t wait another second
something going on around here, [...]

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how do you say i’m irrational, i’m sorry to an answering machine?

Last night I called and I got the answering machine. I didn’t know what to do. In the instant it took for his message, I was able to compose myself, force my voice to sound carefree and lighthearted and left a casual message. “Hello, It’s me, Jodi. You’re probably sleeping or something. I’ll talk to [...]

i got my hair cut. i’m so damn cute i wanna smooch on my ownself.
anyone read Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress? A co-workers has loaned it to me. i’m leery. i hate reading other people’s books. i’m afriad i will hate it and either be honest and she’ll think i’m snooty or i’ll fake [...]

can anyone tell me what tomorrow is?

while driving to work and aimlessly listening to the radio i was horrified to discover that midway though alanis morrisette’s “ironic” i was singing along like a 22-year-old college student in 1994. yes, i was belting it out giving special emphasis to the “i met the man of my dreams and then his beautiful wife” [...]

first, Don’t Go Breaking My Heart is not about the TTHM, per se. inspired by his words, but dramatized for the television audience. It’s an experiment. I’ve been reading Written on the Body. I’m sorry i should have warned you. your heart should not break for me. no hearts should break for me. there will [...]

i seem to forget the simple fact that you cannot make people care about you. i forget that i am a mirror, and that’s all that matters. as long as i can reflect the good stuff back at them, they want me around. but when the mirror is dull and in need of some shine [...]

Don’t Go Breaking My Heart is up over at backwash. cut me a little slack, i was gonna drown if i didn’t get this out of my system. the words pinged about all day. i know they are so not very good, but i had to share. you need to know that i am not [...]

“i’ll have you know that’s fresh fruit,” chicken little said pointing to the now controversial kringle.
“oh, i don’t doubt that,” i said.
“but you said you don’t like old fruit,” he said.
“i don’t like baked fruit, old or new.”
“so you don’t eat pie?”
“nope, baked fruit.”
“no pie at all?”
“i eat brownie pie, which is really just a [...]

“hey jodi, can i use your pencil,” jess asked. “maybe not THE pencil, but any pencil.”
“i only have one pencil,” i said pulling out the purple mechanical wunderpencil from my purse and handing it to her.
“oh,” she said. “i’ll be careful.”
“use its power wisely.”
“i’ll try.”

“once again prejudice rears its ugly head,” wondergeek john said.
“i can’t help it that i don’t like baked fruit,” i said.
“jodi doesn’t like fruit spooj,” jess said in my defense.
“you’re like a four-year-old,” shawn said. “i won’t try this birthday cake because i am angry.”
“i’m not angry,” i said. “i just don’t like baked fruit.”
“this [...]

when i saw the City Pages: The Next Battle in the Newspaper Wars, i made a mental note to go back and read the story. i am fascinated by the newspaper wars, and the fact that the twin cities are still a two paper town. of course, this fascination make perfect sense, since i’m the [...]