Sunday mornings are quickly becoming my favorite time of the week. I settle into the La-Z-Grrl with a jumbo cup of coffee and snuggle up with Bret Michaels. After watching this week’s episode I am pretty sure that this is the second best show on TV. Project Runway is first.
How can I tell? There are [...]

The Daily Mole has put together a Best of Dude Weather. Awesome.

The Times Paper Cuts has three stray questions for Elissa Schappell, who wrote one of my favorite books of 2000, the brilliant Use Me (which was really, I think, the first book of linked short stories I ever read).

1. Discovering a half-full bag of dark chocolate M&Ms leftover from Christmas in the cupboard.
2. Bret Michaels on Conan O’Brien.

Yesterday at lunch, my boss told me I had to work on my online portfolio. It is, according to her, my top priority above all other things that I might need to do. I nodded my agreement that it was, in fact, a very important thing to do and told her I’d get right on [...]

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You will be happy to know that after four days of nothing but The Hold Steady, I am forcing myself to listen to something else. This has everything to do with the odd sex dream I had about Craig Finn/Rex from Fimoculous (my subconscious on more than one occasion has decided that Craig/Rex are [...]

Do you want to see a Japanese alt-country band covering The ‘Mats “Can’t Hardly Wait?” Of course you do.

Sometime this summer the Internet developed a big, fat Web crush on Miranda July and the quirky little Web site she made pimping her short story collection No One Belongs Here More Than You. I gotta admit, I crushed too. I eagerly anticipated the release of the collection. But as the buzz built my [...]

1. Herownself/myownself — One of Miranda July’s characters used this in a short story and I’ve been saying it to myownself for three days.
2. B.S. as opposed to bullshit.
3. Befuddled/puzzled.
4. FFFFFFuuuuuucccckkkk that/this/him/her/it/you/me — usually sung with a drawn out U-sound that goes up a few notes on the K.

I don’t know why but it seems that I cannot get enough of The Hold Steady’s Chill Out Tent. I’ve probably listened to it at least six times since I got up this morning.

If I weren’t already losing my job, Jayto, my boss, would totally fire me for slack unbecoming a productive member of society. I had all this homework to do for our Job Hunting 202 class and I didn’t get any of it done. Somehow I am unable to find the precarious balance between hermitude and [...]

How many times do you think Sister #2 and I have had this argument? If you guessed 381,790 times, you’d be right.

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For 2008 FFJ and I have resolved to update Bookclub Bitches every single month. This will, of course, prove taxing considering we’ve only done 7 episodes since we started the podcast erm, a year and a half ago.
To kick off this year we read Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff Christ’s Childhood Pal. [...]

So I’m sitting up here in the Fortress of Solitude winding down for the day, getting ready to dive back into the kinda lame Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal and chilling out to some Kenny Rogers. I was in the mood for Kenny. Anyway, I’m up here singing along to “Lucille” [...]

Wolfdogg and I were talking about our Westernerd pal Scooter’s upcoming nuptials. Well, upcoming in May. But no time like the present. I’m hoping flocks of Westernerds come from far and wide to attend and that we all have a real wingding of a time. This wingding shindig will involve lots of drinking and no [...]