As I mentioned over on Vox earlier, I woke up in the mood for The Weakerthans, and have spent a majority of my day listening to them. Specifically, “My Favourite Chords.” It’s matching my mood quite well. And my mood? My mood you ask?
Well that would have to be totally fried with a good bit [...]

These photos of a recently closed Target are eerie and just plain wrong. Target should always be teeming with people and stuff.

Barret’s independent study in sex education made me laugh and laugh. I wish we’d had that book.

I’m having entirey too much fun with the concert ticket generator [via}

Afteer a few technical difficulties, FFJ and I finally managed to complete the August Edition of Bookclub Bitches. This month we discussed Craig Ferguson’s Between the Bridge and the River. We also talked about Gin and Tonic, having a face or writing, redemption, and the long dark journey of the soul.
This is our second [...]

This poster hung in my room for most of my sixth grade year. I would have been 11 or 12. I think Michael Jackson was the first rockstar that I loved in thatway. The evidence could be seen by the slightly-greasy pink-stained spot on the poster right where Michael’s lips were. Yes, I would often [...]

Wendy’s write-up of the 3-day left me in tears.

I worked so hard today that I think my cold germs got bored and decided to skip town. As of right this moment, having just arrived home from work, I officially feel better. I plan on celebrating with Macaroni and Cheese and some Mary Gaitskill. Yee! Don’t ever let it be said that I don’t [...]

Another year, another fair goes by the wayside. This was a good year for me and the fam, we made it almost 12 hours — a Chromey-family record.
Sister #2 and I had a lot of fun blogging the fair, and we both decided that we needed to bring extra batteries next year.
You can see [...]

Make no mistake, I love my mom. Generally, she’s the least mom-like mom in the history of momdom. However, she does have her momlike moments. For instance, Friday morning.
“how old are you? how young am i. . . ” it was my cellphone ringing. I groped, eyes-closed for the phone on my nighttable. “Hello.” I [...]

• Conan O’Brien totally gives me a hard-on
• I have no idea what the proper style of hardon/hard-on/hard on is
• What channel are these shows on? I have not watched a single episode of any of these emmy-nominated shows
• I bet ‘A Different World’ and ‘Dawson’s Creek’ don’t win anything, anything!
• Oh no! I totally [...]

A few weeks ago as I was obliviously painting the kitchen and listening to The Kooks at ear-endangering volumes, ChiliD and Mel were sitting at the Chatterbox over in St. Paul. They waited patiently for me to join them, but I was much too busy ‘moving in my own way.’
It was hours later when [...]

Being sick is ‘fun’ for about 2.5 hours. After 2.5 hours you’ve woken up from your 2.5 hour nap and then you’re wide-awake with a stuffed up nose, a scratchy chest, and a severe case of restlessness.
Now I sit in the ever-darkening livingroom, lit only by the glow of Jed and VH1’s 100 Greatest [...]

Well now I’ve done it. I’ve managed to make myself sick. I blame it on the Tibbles (a nickname that Sister #2 gave to Sister #3’s boys). Cade and Nolie were both sporting colds when I went over there on Wednesday. After two days of brewing the cold has leveled me. Spending some 12 hours [...]

My love of the Great Minnesota Get Together has been well documented lo these six years I’ve been writing for iwilldare.com ( 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005). Tomorrow the family will head out once again in the wee small hours of the morning to take the State Fairgrounds by storm.
I am giddy [...]