• 8 a.m. meetings
• thunderstorms that refuse to knock out the power while i am working, thus allowing me to go home and take a nap
• 9 a.m. meetings right after the 8 a.m. ones
• Matt Dillon
• The ‘Willy Wonka, Willy Wonka, the amazing chocolatier, Willy Wonka, Willy Wonka everybody give a cheer’ song that [...]

Rex at Fimoculous posted a link to SnapShirts which will analyze your web site, and then make a tag cloud of the most commonly used words and then let you order up a t-shirt with your tag cloud. IT KICKS ASS.
I’m totally gonna have to buy the t-shirt.

I have mono. At least I have decided I have mono. I’m not quite sure where I would have contracted it. I haven’t kissed anyone in roughly 39 months. Sure work is really stressful and I haven’t slept more than 6 hours a night in like 3 weeks, but this goes beyond that. The symptoms:
• [...]

My parents never really cared about music. When I was growing up the only records I ever remember them having is some blue-vinyl edition of an Elvis record, and “Bridge Over Troubled Water” by Simon and Garfunkel. I don’t think they ever played either of those records.
I have two musical memories of my parents. [...]

• I woke up this morning singing ‘Bullet with Butterfly Wings’ by the Smashing Pumpkins. I hate the Pumpkins with the same kind of vitrol that I usually save for the Barenaked Ladies, Train, Matchbox 20 and Gwen Stefani.
• I just took a hit off a week-old Diet Coke with Lime.
• I’ve listened to Shiftless [...]

“You really want Subway for dinner?” I asked Max for the third time as we were pulling out of the Super T.
“Yes, I just love Subway,” he said. “The white cheese is just amazing.”
Since I had decided how we were going to spend Friday night (grocery shopping and then vegging), I decided that Max got [...]

I feel like I’m turning into one of those people who just bitches endlessly about everything and doesn’t do anything about it. It’s odd that I feel like this, because I really haven’t done any external bitching at all — until now. But my internal bitchometer is off the motherfucking charts.
I’m in one of those [...]

Everyone go give some mad props to Kelly for garnering an Honorable Mention in the Loft’s Mentorship program. She totally deserves it and I’m so happy for her. Once again, however, The Loft refuses to see that I’m a creative and literary genius. Fuckers.

Here are the lyrics I’m living by today:
My body stunk but I kept my funk
at a time when I was right out of luck
For some reason it’s just making me laugh, and I’ve probably listened to Rod singing this song about 15 times in a row today.

1. The Replacements/Goo Goo Dolls/Creed/Bon Jovi parody songs that Wolfdogg made for some Westernerd friends
2. When Dawson’s dad said “Love is a choice you make” to his wife who just admitted she was cheating on him with her co-anchor on the local news
3. The commercial for the movie World Trade Center. A movie that even [...]

Max is actually updating his blog. It’s so cute I could weep.

An integral part of my morning-ritual is the New York Times obits. I am obsessed with them. Sometimes I’ll check them throughout the day just to make sure nobody obscurely important died when I wasn’t looking.
I am generally a goalless nincompoop when it comes to aspirations and what have you, but I do desire [...]

I saw this over at Bookshelves of Doom and couldn’t resist.
1. One book that changed your life?
A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving. I read it when I was 18 and until then I had no idea about the beauty of language and storytelling and the effect it could have on me.
2. One book [...]

I was just sitting here minding my own morning business. Reading my horoscopes, the obits, the Writer’s Almanac, you know all that good morning stuff. Then Neil Diamond’s “Song Sung Blue” came on iTunes, and now I’m crying singing along to Neil Diamond. It’s a bit hard to sing when you’re crying, but I gave [...]