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My cheeks are flushed with anger and indignation as I type. I just got into it on twitter with MPR’s Bob Collins, someone I had long admired. In fact, just last week I was talking with Sister #2 about how much I liked Collins. And then I send one, what I thought of as innocent, [...]
That sound you hear is the drool dripping from my lips as I stare slack-jawed at the TV. This afternoon I handed off a huge project. I was so happy to have it done I celebrated by feasting on D’Amicos Dried Cherry & Turkey salad while watching reruns of Roseanne. Who says I don’t know [...]
It’s snowing like a motherfucker** outside. Sure, sure it’s no DC snowmageddon, but it’s still snowing like hell. It’s supposed to snow for the next day and a half. After I white-knuckled it home from Sister #2′s last night (doing 45 in the 65 the entire 6.2 miles) I gave myself a mental high five [...]
I’m not one to brag. Even though 2009 was kind of a big dull dud, I ended it nicely by signing up a new freelance client. Then, when I was driving home tonight I decided to check my mail. I found two checks from the MN Revenue Service. Apparently I overpaid my taxes in 2004 [...]
This is a picture of the beautiful, letterpressed Christmas cards I ordered on Etsy (and the White Violin from The Umbrella Academy, she lives on the window sill). This is also a picture I took roughly 20 minutes ago after having cracked the seal on these beautiful Christmas cards that were not sent out. Maybe [...]
I bought this Smart Women Desk Set for Sister #2′s birthday. I cannot remember the last time I bought a gift for someone that I so badly wanted to keep for myself. In fact, if I hadn’t already bragged how I wasn’t buying her books, I would keep this and hit up Sister #2′s wishlist. [...]
Monday, I was pretty damn sure I’d never deal with Tires Plus again. I was still pretty miffed at the shoddy treatment I received over the weekend, and when the manager called I blew him off. Mature? Probably not. But I had convinced myself there really was nothing they could do to make me happy, [...]
On 88% of all weekends in any given year, I am perfectly happy not to leave the confines of Supergenius HQ. I have hermit-tendencies and I’m more than willing to indulge those tendencies. However, all that changes when the hermitude is forced upon me rather than something I freely choose. When it’s forced upon me [...]
When writing the traditional Thanksgiving post a blogger can go one of two ways –mushy and sincere or withering and sarcastic. Both have their bits of predictability — I’m thankful for my family and health and house and friends and blah OR I’m thankful that I live in a world where Matt Lauer talks about [...]
Even on my best days I’m kind of a crybaby. For reasons I cannot explain, crying is my go-to form of expressing emotion — sad, happy, angry, afraid — you name it, I cry. I would be more concerned about this if it wasn’t something I’ve done all my life. I’m just wired for tears. [...]
This is a feature on I Will Dare where we answer the questions that brought inquiring Googlers to our doorstep. Usually it’s much funnier, but I didn’t sleep a lot last night. However, I do have to tell you that my DVR is currently in possession of 10.5 hours of V (the mini-series, both of [...]
Have I told you about my brother-in-law Ben getting his masters degree in holistic healing arts or, as Sister #2 and I like to call it, quackery? (Once I mistakenly called it Voodoo and then had to sit through a 18-minute lecture about how Voodoo is a real and valid religion and I shouldn’t be [...]
Okay, I’m still working on this theory, but it’s been bubbling inside of me ever since I picked up Frank Portman’s Andromeda Klein. The book clocks in at something like 430 pages (I’d go look but it is upstairs and I am downstairs). That’s a lot of pages, especially for a young adult novel. I [...]
So yeah, the FTC is getting in bloggers’ business and requiring them to reveal when they’re getting free gifts or cash for reviews. First of all, the FTC can blow me. Second of all, what gets my goat is that they’re coming down on bloggers. They should also require movies and TV shows and newspapers [...]
Hi. I have a short story due (for the class that I love so much that if I had a penis I would sport wood from 6-8 every Wednesday) this week, which makes this an official Go Fuck Yourself (GFY) week. Yay! GFY week started a few years ago when I was cranky and stressed [...]
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