I love my birthday. Some people think it’s childish and others think it’s annoying, but I don’t care. Even on mellow, low-key years such as this, I still love my birthday. Even on melancholy, cold,…
Date Archives 2009
I seem to lean on old familar ways
I’ve been singing Paul Simon’s “Still Crazy After All These Years” in my head for about a week now. There’s nothing that I can do to get it out of my head. It’s there when…
Rock & Roll June Book 1: The Emo Family Robinson
Since The Umbrella Academy Volume 1: Apocalypse Suite was written by Gerard Way of the band My Chemical Romance (whose music I am not familiar with at all), I decided it totally counts as part…
Things found while searching for a box of staples
Box of not attractive Christmas Cards, you’ll see them in December Walkman — AM/FM, cassette, yo. Mickey Mouse watch that never belonged to me Another empty stapler Dusty Nikon SLR Phone charger from two phones…
Twin Study
If I were independently wealthy I would buy hundreds of copies of Stacey Richter’s short story collection Twin Study so that I could pass them out to people who claim to not like short stories…
A conversation outside of Cub Foods in Shakopee
Nolan and I ran to Cub yesterday because I needed bagels. Everyone at Supergenius HQ was aghast when we went to make breakfast (apples, peanut butter, bagels) only to discover the bagel cupboard was bare!…