I promised my immune system that I would buy it something pretty if it beat off the Tibbleflu like the champ I knew it was. Well, I am here to tell my immune system isn’t…
Date Archives 2009
Herein lies a lot of talk about barf
Here is what I discovered about Little Boys today. Unlike most human beings who run in the other direction when someone starts to barf, Little Boys run toward the barfer and watch the regurgitation with…
Not Gaitskill’s best
What has always drawn me to the short stories of Mary Gaitskill is that she spends a lot of time writing about the struggle women have with their intelligence and their sexuality and how giving…
I had a sex dream about Bruce Springsteen
So yeah, a dream about Bruce Springsteen. A graphic, physically satisfying dream where he complimented me on technique and I didn’t comment on the fact that every woman he had sex with had signed his…
Now taking requests for June Rocks
Every June (well every one since the last June) I fill my month by reading Rock & Roll Books and dub it June Rocks. I’m not sure why I’m so excited for this reading excursion,…
The charming outlaw & his writer friend
Leif Enger is one of those Minnesota writers I’ve always wanted to read but never got around too. Part of the fear was the old-timey western sort of themes that seem to run through his…