It seems our fair heroine made the Top 10 most comments list in Vox’s Anniversary post. I am so proud.
Date Archives October 2007
If you haven’t gotten your copy yet
MN Monthly has a nice excerpt from Jim Walsh’s The Replacements: All Over But the Shouting.
In which I am embarrassed by my own ineptness
My story “Rocket Science” is being workshopped tonight. This ass I am sitting on right now, it will be handed to me. I deserve it. The story is not good. I think it might be…
No more Internet before bed
First I dream about Jason Kottke, and then last night I dreamt (dreamed? both look wrong) that after sitting on my front stoop watching giant spiders trap and eat giant flies, I was late for…
What?
It’s like they’ve never seen a grown woman dunk her Pop Tart in a cup of coffee before.
Getting things off my spleen
Going back to work after having a week off blows. Hard. After reading The Gum Thief I have convinced myself that I have spleen problems. I am not sure where a spleen is located but…
I bet she was new, an unboring Customer Service story for Peabo
“I need a new check card.” “Was your card lost or stolen?” The friendly US Bank customer service rep said. “No.” “. . . ” “See I got a new one because the old one…
The Gum Thief
Remember how excited I was about reading Douglas Coupland’s The Gum Thief? Yeah, that dried up and blew away leaving a vague sense of disappointment behind. What we have here is an epistolary (god I…
I’d wear Superman underwear anyway
I was helping The Tibbles put on their pajamas before going downstairs to watch “the ghost movie” with the lights off and eat Nutter Butters (the ghost movie they were demanding? Casper Meets Wendy). “Why…
The words I thought I brought, I left behind
In the past four weeks or so I’ve seen Andrew Bird and Neko Case live for the first time ever. I saw Paul Westerberg sing and talk about his music. However, nothing has filled my…