I removed roughly a hundred entries from the iwilldare.com archives today. They were mostly of the “I have to clean the kitchen” variety and whining about that one time I had a cold back in December of 2000. Hey, blogging was new then and I thought the Internet really wanted to hear about how [...]

The Onion’s A.V Club has a little Q&A with Chuck Klosterman, prepare to roll your eyes so often and so hard you’re afraid they’ll get stuck. He seems to think that anyone who pans his book is a frustrated writer who is jealous of him. Barf.

Even though I had to cancel my Westernerd party, I commenced with the hosting of bookclub. Incidentally, Dad was let out of the hospital today. Hopefully he doesn’t go back any time soon.
So yes, with the bookclub hosting. It was one of our best bookclub’s ever and I’m not say that just becaine I’m totally [...]

I just finished reading Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas. The book ends with a short story Chuck wrote called “You Tell Me.” Like I do with every short story I read, I workshop it in my head. When I finish a good short story I always let out this [...]

• New book day! I got the new Chuck Klosterman and Jennifer Egan books today.
• I haven’t thrown up yet, though I feel like I might.
• Good Gravy, my adorable Canuckian co-worker who keeps IMing me things like, “you know, I bet you’d really dig this band: Wilco.” Or, “Hey, you should check out the [...]

• leave work before 7 p.m.
• watch that stupid topher grace movie because you know, i think i kind of have the hots for him
• write about it’s ‘what you like not what you are like’ — you know from High Fidelity, because i’ve been thinkng about that a lot lately
• pack up all the [...]

ok, (sorry UH) but i was just listening to the Klosterman piece on The Current, and while it hasn’t made me fall head over heels in love with Klosterman, it has made me believe that Mary Lucia and i are soulmates. really. she asked ol’ Chuck if he had one song that he would ask [...]

after working 11 hours and spending half of those hours in meetings, i decided that i did not have the intestinal fortitude to deal with the urban hipsters who would undoubtedly be flocking to Edina to hear Chuck Klosterman read. instead, i will have to placate myself with his appearance on 89.3 The Current.
i’m [...]

hey darlingones, Chuck Klosterman is gonna read at the Barnes & Noble in the Galleria on tuesday. i plan on attending provided work doesn’t kick my ass and leave me a pale figment of my former self.

i can’t remember who it was, but i was talking to someone not so long ago about the music of paul westerberg. they were trying to make some inane distinction between older and newer solo westerberg, and i would have none of that nonsense. because, to be honest, i guess i don’t study his music [...]

My boss, Sandy, likes to call me the purveyor of bad stuff. She christened me with this title shortly before Christmas when I ran into her over lunch at the mall. I was gushing about my freshly purchased ‘Fargo Rock City’ book and saying how I might just have to propose to Chuck Klosterman. She [...]

Tonight, I finally finished Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota. I am a little sad to see it go. It feels a bit like breaking up a lover who you had great sex with every night for two weeks, but now that the sex has cooled off a bit, you [...]

a chat with sister #2:
Jodi says: did ben tell you about the book i am reading?
Ericka says: no
Jodi says: you have to read it
Jodi says: you’ll LOVE it
Jodi says: it’s fargo rock city
Jodi says: it’s all about growing up in the midwest and loving heavy metal
Ericka says: that is what you were saying last night
Jodi [...]