– the song “The Good Times are Killing Me” by Modest Mouse – the writer minion, even though she’s not here today – the book A Girl Becomes a Comma Like That – nice-eyed skatercutie…
Date Archives June 2004
music to write by
for the past week and a half i’ve been listening to matthew sweet’s “100% Fun” on repeat. it’s weird. i listened to matthew sweet nonstop from 1993 to 1995. and when i hear this album…
all by myself
the artguy who has become my new best workfriendboy (much to the chagrin of my former new best workfriendboy webboy) is not here today. he’s hanging his new show. despite our inability to communicate on…
the neverending sentence
i seem to find myself getting lost in the neverending sentences of David Foster Wallace’s Oblivion. i’ve been trying valiantly to stay on track, but when the sentences stretch to six or seven lines my…
long arms and all
i’m sort of clumsy. ok, i’m really quite clumsy. i’ve bumped my head more times than i can remember, and even nearly killed myself tripping over thin air. my dad always says it’s because i…
attention. please.
ok, i know i’ve been busy and unresponsive and all. but come on! i could really use some fucking attention over here people. i’m sliding into one of those moods where i think i sacrifice…
an actual conversation
“the only thing worse than someone stealing your fundip is someone biting your chalk,” james said. “dude, you can never bite someone’s chalk,” i said.
the problem with pandas
at breakfast on sunday, max sat at the opposite side of the table from me. this is quite unusual, seeing that usually we’re joined at the hip whenever we’re together. but for some reason, probably…
the family that parades
apparently we’ve become the family who attends parades. last week it was the Father’s Day Parade in hutchinson. this week it was the Dan Patch Days Parade in Savage. i didn’t know today was going…