10:34 pm, 23.Aug.05 · No Comments

pity the neighbors. i’m sitting on the couch listening to Roland II and belting out St. Paul Westerberg’s “Born for Me” as if my life depended on it. i can’t resist singing the part that goes:
i can’t bear to, try and share you . . .when you forget me, then you late me, fade away, [...]

12:47 pm, 10.Jan.05 · 2 Comments

now that we’re nearly two weeks into 2005, i’ve finally decided to go public with my reading plan. yeah, i’m that nerdy that i have a reading plan for the year. i had one last year too. RP2004 was to alternate between novels and a collection of short stories. i needed to expose myself to [...]

10:35 am, 06.Jan.05 · Comments Off

i’m working from home today. generally this means sitting around in pajama-like clothing with unbrushed hair eating pancakes. today, this is not the case at all. today i had to get dressed and brush my hair. i did however, just eat some delicious peanut butter pancakes so the day isn’t totally wasted. but i had [...]

12:09 pm, 13.Feb.03 · 1 Comment

wahoo, i got McSweeney’s 10 today. Aimee Bender, Dave Eggers, Michael Chabon, Harlan Ellison, Stephen King, Nick Hornby, Rick Moody and much, much more! i just want to go home right now and read.

1:42 pm, 06.Aug.02 · Comments Off

After reading Aimee Bender’s book, I want to hook up Mona Gray, the main character, with Mike Doughty, the former lead singer of the band Soul Coughing. If the music of Soul Coughing were a book, it would be an ‘Invisible Sign of My Own.’
The whole time I read the book I had the song [...]

9:52 pm, 30.Jul.02 · 2 Comments

and sometimes the book is too good and you have to put it down. it’s like a rich, rich chocolate cake and while you just want to eat it all right up, you must take a break.
the book is so good you’ve been lost for over an hour and haven’t thought of anything but [...]