When I first discovered The Hold Steady it was love at first listen. They were like nothing I’d ever heard before. I fell hard and fast and there was no looking back. But, sadly, as…
Date Archives 2009
Answering the Googlers Questions XI: All Dawson’s all the time
Here’s what I’ve learned looking at this month’s logs, a lot of people are really concerned about what to wear to a Journey concert. Also, I could turn I Will Dare into a Dawson’s Creek…
Spazzing out
Holy shit! Holy shit! Holy shit! HOLY SHIT! John Irving is going to be reading in Minneapolis on November 9th. JOHN FUCKING IRVING. Longtime darling ones will understand the absolute joy this moment has inspired…
Things I have to do today even though I don’t want to
Put on pants Update my resume Also, I dreamt the other night that I went to prom with Justin Timberlake. Not as a goofy teenager, no I went to prom as a goofy thirty-seven year…
Weepy bookworm
This weekend I finished reading Everything Matters! by Ron Currie, Jr. It was the September pick for Rock & Roll Bookclub. It made me cry. It also made a male rock & roller who shall…
I don’t want a new Jessica, and I definitely don’t want twin Junos
When I first heard the news that Diablo Cody was going to write and produce a movie based on my beloved Sweet Valley High books I was incredulous. My first thought was, “if she turns…