1. I just found a package of unopened Pop Tarts on my desk. This is probably the score of the century being as in my 6:18 a.m. delirium, I didn’t eat any breakfast. And because of the aforementioned ungodly waking hour I’ve had two cups of coffee today.
2. However, I cannot find my much beloved [...]

This just in. . .
I just accidentally listened to an entire TV on the Radio song (incidentally it was called “Wear You Out”. This is newsworthy because generally TV on the Radio makes me tear the cans from my ears and throw them across the room lest my ear drums exit my ears in [...]

For the TTHM: If Flannery O’Connor had a blog, she’d need someone there to shoot her, I am sure. [via]

It seems as though I woke up on the melancholy side of the bed this morning. Last night I had a dream about Ben Jones, a boy I loved in college. The dream was so fun and full of that special chemistry that makes you feel hopeful and alive that I was saddened to be [...]

Jim Walsh returns, in the new, kick-ass Reveille Magazine. Sweet!

A few weeks ago I alluded to balancing feelings with creative desires. After much internal debate, a lot of counsel from friends (thanks Peabo, Sparky, etc.) I went forward with my project.
So darling ones, I am pleased as punch to announce the brand-new Paul Westerberg.net: A Bad Idea Whose Time Has Come. Yes, after seven [...]

Paul Westerberg to play MGD shows in the Twin Cities for some online music thing?

Sweeping the “Zen of Swayze” category on the World Series of Pop Culture Trivia
That Snickers blizzard with chocolate ice cream
Sweeping “The Strokes” category which was about masturbation (actually, I am pretty proud of this)
Spending an hour sitting in the dark sans pants watching TV when I should be doing my poetry homework

On being an influential aunt. Sweet!

I just got out of a meeting where I used the phrase “Rock and Roll” as a verb not once, but twice. Then I proceeded to punch myself in the neck until I passed out.
What is wrong with me? There is no excuse for such nonsense. The only thing I can come up with [...]

Cade popped up from behind the couch and leaned in to sniff me, crinkling his nose. “You should take a bath.”
“What?” I asked.
He leaned in again making sniffing noises. “You smell.”
“Thanks,” I said.
“Yeah.” He sniffed again. “You smell like dirt.”

Leaves work at 3:30 (yay! for new summer hours)
Takes a hot bath until fingers get pruny
Curls up with a book (Fifth Business), practices, power naps
Eats two slices of sausage, onion, and jalapeno pizza and washes it down with an icy cold Diet Coke with Lime while watching Dawson’s Creek
That’s it, single 30something women with no [...]

I’ve reached the stage in my yearly mid-summer battle with stress-induced insomnia where I refuse to turn on the lights or get out of bed no matter how much I’m not sleeping. It’s the stubborn phase, and it’s not pretty.
In fact, it’s downright bizarre. My mind has started this new weird thing when we’re not [...]

Earlier this week, I was chatting with my FFJ about how surprised and impressed I was by Jean Thompson’s short story collection Throw Like a Girl. FFJ was amazed that after all the reading I’ve done that I can still be surprised and impressed with a book, especially when you consider the amount [...]