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Even Here We Are

I'm Jodi Chromey, a writer who lives in Minnesota. This is the story of my life. You can reach me at jodi@iwilldare.com.

• Things I Want to Tell You

  • Can't stop listening to "Who Were You Were Thinking Of" by Jeff Tweedy. Sing it with me, "who were you thinking of when we were making love last night? Was it a good-looking stranger or a close friend of mine. . ." [+]
  • You would think that if they were getting straight As they'd know the damn difference between loose and lose. GAH! [+]
  • Sadly, many of these t-shirts would probably fit me too. T-Shirts My Ex-Boyfriends Would Wear in a More Honest World. [+]
  • Yeah, I know there are problems with the comments timing out and giving an error message. I'm working on it. Never fear, the comment is still posting, it's just being really annoying in the process. I hope to have this fixed ASAP. I believe it's fixed. If there is still a problem, it's probably your fault and not mine. Kidding. Kinda. [+]

• Recently Dared

  • Balogna, i don’t even think that’s how Oscar Meyer spells it (1)
    • bamboozlde: you were probably going for “woot!” not “out”. so…woot!
  • Just so you know a few things before I go to bed (5)
    • UH: Oh, yeah, people would definitely comment if a man was wearing an orange suit, way more so than for a woman in an...
    • Jodi: But I think my point was that nobody would comment on what a man was wearing.
    • UH: If it had been a man in an orange suit, “pumpkin” is probably the least offensive thing he’d...
    • Calli: Rachel Maddow rocks. She’s been on Air America since it started, and she’s getting her own show on...
    • Amanda: The Rachel woman *is* awesome: http://www.thenation.com/doc/2 0080818/traister

• Reading 2008

  • The Night of the Gun
  • Crazy Good: The True Story of Dan Patch, the Most Famous Horse in America
  • Netherland (review)
  • Who Do You Love
  • America America (review)
  • So You Wanna Be a Rock & Roll Star (review)
  • Everything I'm Cracked Up to Be (review)
  • The Importance of Music to Girls (review)
  • Last Night
  • The Ghost Writer
  • Secret Lives of Great Authors (review)
  • The Wonders of the Invisible World (review)
  • I Love You, Beth Cooper (review)
  • The Monsters of Templeton (review)
  • The Dead Fish Museum (review)
  • The Stone Gods (review)
  • I am the Messenger (podcast)
  • Things I've Learned from the Women Who've Dumped Me (review)
  • Things That Fall From the Sky (review)
  • The Learners (review)
  • Rock On (review)
  • Bang Crunch (review)
  • Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return (podcast)
  • Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (podcast)
  • My Life in Heavy Metal (review)
  • Candy Girl (review)
  • Post Office (review)
  • The Descendants (review)
  • Self-Help (review)
  • Atonement (review)
  • The Screwtape Letters (podcast)
  • No One Belongs Here More Than You (review)
  • Away
  • Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal (podcast)

  Books Read 2002-2007

• Minnesota Reads

  • 6 questions we always ask — Ben Kimball
  • Book Links: Lazy authors, Catcher’s relevance, and Flowers in the Attic
  • All the Sad Young Literary Men [sound the same]

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