The 'westernerds' Tag Archive

Below you'll find all my writing tagged with the word westernerds. The posts are listed in chronological order. Click the post title to read more.

May 24th, 2008

Hello awkward, have a seat next to me

This is some of the advice I left for my friends Scooter and Anna at their wedding last night. Being that I was the only single person over the age of 8 in the joint, I thought I’d be better offdispatching wise words to live by for people of any sort of couple-status and not [...]

May 6th, 2008

Cranky goes to the polls

Still pretty cranky, I’m hoping coffee with the posse will alleviate a lot of the crank. If not, I’m jumping off a bridge on the way home. I’ve gotten to the point where I am annoying myself with the woe-is-me crap. Anyway, even in the midst of a hormonal storms there are moments of sheer [...]

April 9th, 2008

Now this is a bracket I can get behind, determining the best ‘Mats album

The Westernerds over at Paul Westerberg.net have been arguing lately on which of the ‘Mats and Paul Westerberg albums are the best. For instance, I had to throw down against Jay Taco for his misguided notion that Sorry Ma is better then Let it Be. Come on, that’s just crazy talk and I can’t abide [...]

January 11th, 2008

Wedding plans

Wolfdogg and I were talking about our Westernerd pal Scooter’s upcoming nuptials. Well, upcoming in May. But no time like the present. I’m hoping flocks of Westernerds come from far and wide to attend and that we all have a real wingding of a time. This wingding shindig will involve lots of drinking and no [...]

September 24th, 2007

Fistful of Weirdos

The thing I liked the best about last night’s Paul Westerberg The Craft talk/performance at First Avenue in Minneapolis, was when Westerberg and Zanes (the interviewer from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame) talked a bit about the fans. I guess in some magazine interview Westerberg had referred to his fans as a fistful [...]

September 21st, 2007

Pre Paul Westerberg Show Meet Up

Going to the Paul Westerberg The Craft show at First Ave Sunday? Come hang with the Westernerds before hand.

September 10th, 2007

Hey Midwesterners, Paul Westerberg.net is giving away tickets to the Sept. 23rd concert

That’s right buckos, Paul Westerberg.net is giving away tickets to the upcoming MGD The Craft Series show at First Avenue. Sure, sure you could keep trying to win tickets on the radio, or you could go over to our Paul Westerberg site and win one. Where do you think you’ll find the better odds? Come [...]

August 28th, 2007

My favorite debate

Westernerds are arguing about the meaning of the line I ain’t very good but I get practice by myself. I am firmly in the masturbation camp.

September 13th, 2006

lying in bed with barenaked songs in my head

Holy Awesome Batman! My pals Zook & Wolfdogg wrote a Weird-Alesque song about the devestating news of Doughty opening for the Barenaked Ladies.

June 26th, 2006

It’s hard to sing with someone who won’t sing with you

Saturday, I attended a gathering of localish Westernerds at Wolfdogg’s house in St. Paul. It was, of course, great gobs of fun. But what do you really expect when you gather together a few handfuls of musicgeeks (and I am like the ungeekiest of this bunch) add some of the best damn strawberry margaritas ever [...]

June 6th, 2006

World serves its own needs, listen to your heart bleed

For my birthday some of my Westernerd pals made a little song in my honor. It’s filled with inside Westernerd jokes (i.e. how i always say Monkey broke my glasses and my insane crush on a Westernerd who goes by the name Smoo), but you’ll still dig it. So the song is called i’m Always [...]

June 27th, 2005

everything looks perfect from far away

so i had a weekend, though it doesn’t feel like it. i’ve discovered that the one thing i simply cannot do anymore is stay up until 4 a.m. i guess i’m just one of those people who needs to be in bed by 3 a.m. at the very latest. four a.m. just wrecks me for [...]

May 1st, 2005

the dude abides

for this gray, gloomy may day, i decided to do exactly what i wanted. well most everything i wanted. there was no passionate sex with a handsome stranger, but then you can’t always get what you want. i spent most of the day, between naps, sitting on the couch watching “The Big Lebowski,” in a [...]

April 25th, 2005

late-breaking crush developments

there has been an update to the Crush of the Day! my new crush of the day is my pal Monkey. see, monkey is a westernerd who just hooked me up with my new all-time very favorite song ever. it’s called Jason Lee and i would love it even if it weren’t about the cutest [...]

April 19th, 2005

a few things about Chicago Lodge Kathy

this is kathy and her inside-out pajamas. she had run out of cans of budweiser so we gave her a new castle. she poured the beer, took a sip and then proclaimed “it’s like you people are from another planet.” before i go any further, i just want to say that if i reach 59 [...]