Jaycie and Max spent the night last night because none of us wanted to get up before 7 a.m., and today is the last day that I’ll be babysitting them this summer. Sunday they leave…
Date Archives August 2008
Spaghettio storage facility
Max is sitting on the floor in the little cubby between the La-Z-Grrl and the couch. He is play his DS. I am not sure why he’s sitting there because sometimes I don’t like to…
Five (oh the irony) more minutes of Paul Westerberg for $1
Just tonight Vodo and I were talking about Westerberg’s 49:00 record and I was telling him how it mysteriously vanished off the Web for reasons I couldn’t figure out. We chalked it up to Westerberg…
Things I am looking forward to doing now that my stupid short story is done
Reading The Night of the Gun without any kind of guilt at all about how I should be writing Forgiving Lorrie Moore for not helping in my second-person-hour-of-need when I really needed her Sleeping through…
Germ-induced narcolepsy and the second person
Do you have any idea how hard it is to finish a short story when you can’t seem to stay awake for more than four hours in a row? Probably not. My brain is so…
A few more things about the Ethan Canin Reading
you can see where he screwed up because I made him nervous I’m having a hard time writing about the Ethan Canin reading from Wednesday night at Magers & Quinn. The combination of nerves and…