Ed Kohler’s battle with the yellow pages
Catherine O’Flynn’s What Was Lost
The Frumpstress on Project Runway
WordTwist on Facebook. I cannot be beat. I am an anagramming machine.
My new writing class
Multi-grain bagels with peanut butter and apples

Sweetest Craigslist Help Wanted Ad. Ever.

There’s been some interesting stuff going on over at Minnesota Reads that you don’t even have to be a Minnesotan to enjoy. First, there’s a 6Qs interview with playwright Max Sparber, and the next two weeks have great subjects too though I am not going to reveal who they are. Christa wrote a funny review [...]

A few weeks ago I talked about cutting back on my cable bill. When I made the cut I thought I’d just be cutting back on the Dawson’s Creek but I was wrong. I was cutting it out completely. Ouch.
There are no words to describe this hole in my life, no, in my very soul. [...]

I was a late comer to the David Sedaris party. While everyone I knew was going on and on about how funny he was, I was busy reading dark and depressing, serious “literature” or, you know, liner notes of CDs. But long about 2004 (September 06, 2004 to be exact), I picked up Naked [...]

It's National Singles Week: Here Are 14 Reasons Why We Need It | Psychology Today Blogs
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I am not sure what to do about Paste magazine who despite my best intentions refuses to believe that I am not Paul Westerberg. In today’s post on their site they seem to think Paul is bored with Sarah Palin, job hunting, and my eyebrows too.
What is a girl who is not Paul Westerberg to [...]

I was going through I Will Dare’s log files today gathering information for the next installment of Answering the Googlers’ Questions when I noticed a lot of searches for Aunt Jodi and Aunt Jodi controversy and What happened to Aunt Jodi?
Weird. I had no idea adding vampire teeth to Frankenstein was such a big deal.
Ever [...]

When I went grocery shopping on Monday (that day I had to do two things) I bought a bag of Double-Bubble Halloween gumballs. The gumballs are painted to look either a jack-o-lantern, an eyeball, a vampire, or a planet thing with green lumps.
The Tibbles were obsessed with the “Scary Gum.” This was made [...]

You know what I like the most about Juliana Hatfield’s Book Notes essay? Not only does she list a Wilson Phillips song and talk of how much she and Evan Dando loved their album, but she disses their lyrical grammar. It’s more awesomeness than the law should allow. I haven’t read her memoir yet, but [...]

Sunday night, over Instant Messenger, I helped my ten-year-old niece Jaycie with a writing project. She was working on her application to be a reporter for her elementary school’s newspaper. I’m still a little surprised that my heart withstood the utter cuteness of her applying for the job in the first place, much less the [...]

In a Pop Matters interview Chuck Klosterman says, “It was harder to write fiction, but maybe that was only because I’d never done it before. I can’t remember if writing Fargo Rock City was hard or easy.”
The fact that he’s never written fiction before is painfully, achingly, stupefyingly, annoyingly obvious. First, there is the problem [...]

One of the first things I do every morning after watching Dude Weather is check out MNSpeak and see what they’re linking to for the day. Today they linked to Dan Wilson why are you so awesome?. While you will not find the answer to that question, you will find some great pics of the [...]

I have to do two things outside Supergenius HQ tomorrow. Just two things, two relatively simple things: grocery shop (because I’ve eaten all the food I’d really ever entertain eating and the only stuff left is that which will only be eaten in case of an apocalyptic event that prevents any sort of pizza delivery [...]

If you don’t follow me on twitter or read my Facebook status updates you probably aren’t familiar with my very special relationship with “Don’t Fear the Reaper.” It’s actually not my relationship. The relationship belongs to the Frat House (so dubbed for the neon beer signs that illuminate the basement and the hot tub out [...]