i remember lo those many months ago when Roland was brand new. i remember sitting on the phone talked to darling jason and just caressing him lovingly (roland, not jason). it was a match made in heaven, roland was born for me, so beautiful and true, i could have died there with him.
sadly, he’s the [...]

1. sit on the couch in ratty grey shorts and a paul westerberg shirt
2. work from home, doing the part of your job you like — writing
3. listen to the hold steady (you can too — your little hoodrat friend
4. eat a banana

i think i could fry an egg on this laptop’s touchpad.

i looked in the mirror after brushing my teeth, trying to get my hair to sit down. it wasn’t working, and after a bit i just shrugged at myself in my stained white t-shirt, and said, “we’re just going to the Super T, it doesn’t matter.”
as Ruby and i pulled into the Super T parking [...]

picnics should not kick your ass and need a cooling off period where you lay on the couch sans pants hovering between awake and asleep. but this picnic, it kicked my ass. i think it was the combination of the hour plus drive, 90 plus degree, and the helping plus of potato salad.
it was [...]

i am about to venture off with the sister club to a picnic next to a lake somewhere in the godforsaken northern suburbs area of the twin cities. this would not be such a big deal, if it weren’t so dark out right now that i have to turn on the lights to see the [...]

“i’m kind of a booksnob and i dug it,”i said, talking about the Dean Koontz book Seamus made me read.
“oh come on jodi, don’t sell yourself short,” seamus said. “you’re a TOTAL book snob.”
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“so is this your’s?” my ohioan colleague asked, waving the hot-pink feather boa that currently resides around the neck of a dinosaur [...]

if you’re looking for a little reason to make it through the rest of this wretchedly long work week, go read Brad Zellar’s “My Back Pages: No Man Should Ever”, it will help. but it will make you want to write a list of “No Woman Should Ever” instead of writing the corporate propaganda hoo-ha [...]

i am listening to eminem. this is a quite surprising development for me. i see how it got onto Roland, the song’s called Superman. what’s the most surprising thing of all, is that i am totally digging. in fact even though i am working on writing a rage-filled diatribe, it’s still making me smile. this [...]

i finally had four uninterrupted minutes here in my cell. most of the day has spent meeting, discussing, phone calling, and answering questions. i long for the day when i just get to write again. but that is besides the point.
the point here is that i was sitting at my desk, cranking up ol’ [...]

i am contemplating making Sufjan Stevens my new imaginary boyfriend. i’m sure Mike Doughty and Ted Leo will be crushed. i thought there was one more, but i can’t seem to remember who it is. AC Newman, though, probably won’t care because he knows he’s worming his way back into my heart. mostly, because i’ve [...]

with my actual life duller than a doornail, my dream life has picked up the slack. i present to you the bizarre dreams plaguing me the last week.
Dream 1 - the superman tattoo
i was sitting around a campfire with a group of five or six women. all of them with superman tattoos on their chests. [...]

sometime within the last month or so, sister #4 was talking about her impending wedding and the marriages of sisters #2 and #3, in her comments she said something to the effect of, “well jodi’s really career-focused.” in a rare moment of paying attention i rose up to fight the power.
“i am not career-focused,” i [...]

all the working at work and even sometimes when not at work has left me pathetically dull and colorless. i am imbibing at the moment and coming to you live from the fabulous blue couch, in a living room that was recently cleaned. soon, supergenius headquarters will be clean enough to invite actual people over [...]

you could crack nuts on the muscles in my neck they are that hard and tense. my goal today is to make it through work and then go home and have not one, not two, but three drinks. that’s right THREE! i am going to have three drinks and they will be good and i [...]