Today marks the 10th Anniversary of getting laid off at The Nerdery*. I’ve been doing the Unemployment Boogaloo for ten years. How did this happen? Do you remember 2009? I look back on it fondly now, even though I was getting laid off as the ad world cratered thanks to the great 2008 financial implosion. Obama was president and I was in my thirties. IN…
For the Spring Member Drive, The Current has been counting down the Top 893 songs of the 2000s (as voted on by Current listeners). It is, of course, brilliant. I love when they do this kind of special programming. For me this particular countdown is equal parts a reminder of how much I love The Current and how it’s introduced me to so much music…
If you are in the mood for a good cry, have I got two memoirs for you! First is Stephanie Wittels Wachs’ Everything Is Horrible and Wonderful: A Tragicomic Memoir of Genius, Heroin, Love, and Loss, about losing her brother, Harris Wittels, to a heroin overdose. If you’re like me, you know Harris as a writer from “Parks & Rec” who also played one of…
Thanks to the magic of TimeHop, I know that today is the 2nd anniversary of Paco’s death. This sad occasion coincides nicely with my desire to be the kind of spinster who only tells stories about her cats. All the time with the stories. Stories upon stories upon stories. The way I see it, you’ve had two years mostly free of cat content, so now…
When April started I had big plans to blog every day like the glory days of the 200 project. I did really well for three days. Then something happened. Something else probably happened, and then my Aunt Janis died. Her death was sudden and shocking. She was only 60 years old. It’s been two weeks and I’m still not sure if I have the words…
It’s been nearly two years since Paco died, leaving me mostly petless. Mostly, because I had every-other-weekend and all of February custody of Walter. However, that’s all changing. My sister and brother-in-law are selling their Minnesota house and he’s moving back to Portland with Walter. I have been, for the most part, devastated by this recent development. I was really hoping it’d go the other…
Welcome to the first ever Jodi Chromey Supergenius Quarterly Superlative Awards. I’m your host, Jodi Chromey. We’re hoping some day to get Maya Rudolph to do these awards because she should host all the things forever and ever throughout eternity and on every plane of existence known and unknown. Until now, you get me. I created these awards because work was kind of boring me…
Part I The Tea Ladies are a trio of women I meet up with every few months at the Tea Source in EP to talk about books and TV shows and politics. I don’t like tea. Neither does one of the Amys. However, we do like making jokes about stupid tea is and the other Amy and Anne love tea, so it’s worth it. When…
For the record, I love slow songs. I am a big fan of “old sad bastard” music, because I am frequently an old sad bastard, especially lately because 2019 is being a motherfucker to me and my people. I’m not a big fan of the term hoes. This harkens back to my dislike of the word slutty. Again, though, I do love the word bitch….
Last night I dreamt I made out with Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch on the lawn of a haunted library. He was in black and white. I’m putting way too much thought into who was the ultimate Roller Skating Snowball band: Air Supply or REO Speedwagon. I’m leaning REO. People who refuse to think of the 90s as the years 1992-1997 bother me. I recognize…
