Later today as part of my Re-evaluating Personal Artifacts project I’m going to put into words the pain of listening to Jewel in 2012 and try to remember why I liked this dreck in 1995. I have a few theories, all them involve temporary brain damage caused by massive amounts of Leinenkugel’s. But right now, …
Once again, I made it my resolution to try to keep track of all the words I have to look up in the dictionary. This would probably be much easier if I used an old-fashioned book dictionary, but do people still do that? I have a dictionary. I got it for my 25th birthday. It’s …
“They take a story and turn it into like Algebra, which is why nobody wants to read,” Vodo on English teachers. “You know if you’re boring or not,” Vodo. “The word panties was in there and I was like man, I’m so there,” The Sexist. “Truth without time is the work of holy men,” Vodo. …
Thursday I had the pleasure and honor to be interviewed by a delightful young woman from the UofM for the English Major’s blog. Or something like that. I can’t exactly remember what the focus of the blog is, but I do know I was interviewed all about Minnesota Reads. My interviewer was so earnest and …
“Why are there so many women in this class?” “It was overwritten, boring, and I didn’t like it.” “I just didn’t care for any of it.” “Well, I’m not a woman so maybe women like that kind of thing. You know love and that.” [while workshopping a short story written by a female classmate] “Your …
This is the inscription inside the cover of my copy of Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder. I cropped it out, but my phone number was on there too. Only seven digits because we didn’t have to use area codes back then. We are 612s. I haven’t lived at that address …
Two quotes from the day. One came at Grumpy’s where three-fifths of the Chicken Fingers met to discuss a story I am wholly bored with. In fact, I admitted I’m bored with everything I write. Then I admitted how much I want to write a book about rock & roll but I’m scared. “If it …