- the song “The Good Times are Killing Me” by Modest Mouse – the writer minion, even though she’s not here today – the book A Girl Becomes a Comma Like That – nice-eyed skatercutie from writing class – zucchini – the phrase “____ rocks the casbah” and it doesn’t help that Casbah [('kaz-ba) n [...]
for the past week and a half i’ve been listening to matthew sweet’s “100% Fun” on repeat. it’s weird. i listened to matthew sweet nonstop from 1993 to 1995. and when i hear this album i’m instantly 22 years old again and i’m sitting in the bubble at the spectator office with the song “Super [...]
the artguy who has become my new best workfriendboy (much to the chagrin of my former new best workfriendboy webboy) is not here today. he’s hanging his new show. despite our inability to communicate on monday, we’ve been getting along famously. he’s my new favorite person to terrorize. it’s just so easy and so much [...]
i seem to find myself getting lost in the neverending sentences of David Foster Wallace’s Oblivion. i’ve been trying valiantly to stay on track, but when the sentences stretch to six or seven lines my mind either begins to wander or fall asleep. after a week, i’m still only 46 pages into the first story, [...]
i’m sort of clumsy. ok, i’m really quite clumsy. i’ve bumped my head more times than i can remember, and even nearly killed myself tripping over thin air. my dad always says it’s because i have no common sense. i never quite understood where the common sense came into play, but apparently in his mind [...]
ok, i know i’ve been busy and unresponsive and all. but come on! i could really use some fucking attention over here people. i’m sliding into one of those moods where i think i sacrifice everything for a career and that makes me so incredibly sad that i could nearly vomit. so yeah, attention. please.
“the only thing worse than someone stealing your fundip is someone biting your chalk,” james said. “dude, you can never bite someone’s chalk,” i said.
at breakfast on sunday, max sat at the opposite side of the table from me. this is quite unusual, seeing that usually we’re joined at the hip whenever we’re together. but for some reason, probably since sister #3 wasn’t there, jaycie had decided that i rocked the casbah and hung out with me. max glommed [...]
how the fuck did it get to be 12:30. i swear i’ve only been sitting at my desk for about 10 minutes. being a big important nothing with all sorts of temp. workers to keep busy is hard work. and i hate saying anything is hard work because it makes me feel like a barbie [...]
apparently we’ve become the family who attends parades. last week it was the Father’s Day Parade in hutchinson. this week it was the Dan Patch Days Parade in Savage. i didn’t know today was going to involve parade gazing. i thought it was just going to be a cute-off at the pancake feed down at [...]
while roaming about aimlessly, waiting for the dinner in the oven to finish, i stumbled upon a Reading by Tim O’Brien, it’s from his faboo book Tomcat in Love. i discovered O’Brien long before i discovered the beauty that is “The Things They Carried”. i discovered O’Brien while wandering aimlessly around Barnes & Noble. it [...]
i am wearing the bodascious ta-tas shirt, that’s how badly i need to do laundry. i thought you would want to know.
robin, the poppy mom, wanted a ‘mats greatest hits track list. there are more, and you’ll notice there’s no “otto, “nothin’ to du,” or “goddamn job.” but i was limited to only 22 songs. here it is, the best of the ‘mats according to me:
i’d have never made it through the night if it weren’t for the beauty of the replacements. hell, i’d have never made it through these past two weeks without the replacements. this may come as a surprise to most everyone, but i don’t listen to the replacements too often. really, i don’t. sure i listen [...]
i collect the things that people say. it’s an addiction. i say it’s all fodder for my writing, but mostly i just like to collect the things that people say and/or write. a lot of these i get while in meetings at work. because i work with funny people here’s a list of recent favorites: [...]
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