Dear @colsonwhitehead, I’m sorry for doubting you. I was going to write this apology/review in a series of 140 character paragraphs (ala tweet) but that’s too much of a pain in the ass and would…
Date Archives 2009
Nine years of I Will Dare, that’s a hell of a lot of bullshit
Holy cow, I Will Dare is nine years old. MOTHERFUCKING NINE YEARS OLD! How the hell did that happen? I have the attention span of a flea. Last Sunday I was over at Sister #2’s…
Sure signs that I am 37 going on 83
First, I took a catnap. Not just any old cat nap, but a 20-minute, unplanned catnap in the middle of day, while sitting in the La-Z-Grrl. Second, it’s July and I just put on a…
This is the exact reason I always end up working at 8:30 p.m. & eating dinner at 10
Because I get lost on the Internet watching video after video of Caroline Smith & The Goodnight Sleeps covering songs that I love. Like Rilo Kiley’s “Breakin’ Up” Or Rod Stewart’s Young Turks, which I’m…
Both Ways is the Only Way I Want it, so good it literally took my breath away
Anyone who has ever read Flannery O’Connor’s short story “A Good Man is Hard to Find” a second (or more) time will remember that chest-tightening tension that happens when you read about the grandmother and…
In the shadow of no David Foster Wallace
Yesterday I did something I haven’t done in a very long time, nothing. It was glorious, well mostly glorious. Sometimes I had to do battle with the voices in my head that said, “hey, you…