Friday night my friend, Hypster Mom, hosted a sort of literary salon featuring J.C. Hallman author of many things, most recently the short story collection The Hospital for Bad Poets. Before he read a story…
Date Archives January 2010
Book review, a dialog
Laura van den Berg writes beautifully. Her sentences and paragraphs feel like gauzy, ethereal dreams. It’s the kind of writing that seems effortless which means it probably took great amounts of effort. She populates the…
Days of Crank & Crabbiness
Monday I fell into some January funk and it took a long time to get climb out of it (when you have adult-onset ADD two days is a very long time). The funk yesterday was…
The validity of eye witness accounts
Yesterday I rode to Rock & Roll Bookclub with Jaycie, Ben, and Max. I’m not sure how we got on the topic but Max was waxing eloquently on the awesomeness of MonsterQuest and how I…
On the awesomeness of superheroes
“I think they take a bath with their suits on, right Aunt Jodi?” Liam is playing Lego Batman on the Wii. He keeps up a running dialog that I mostly ignore until I hear my…
Two resolutions: One for me & one for the Internet
I’m a little cranky because I just read an awful graphic novel and bad books make me angry. There might be extra vitriol in tonight’s rant when normally there would just be the regular amount…
Leno v. Conan is more like Baby Boomers v. GenX
This is the obligatory I know there are more important things going on in the world right now statement required by the Society of Blog Readers for Pointing Out You’re Shallow & Pointless. This whole…
Way back in aught-six
It’s 11:16 and I’m just finishing up work for the day. This is not a complaint. I just want to record it somewhere for posterity because it’s been a very long time since I’ve been…
Brought to you by my discovery of the first season of She-Ra on hulu
The worst part of growing up in suburban Minneapolis in the 80s was the ridiculous standard of beauty. Sure we laugh at it now, but big hair was a lot of work. It required, in…
Like an unfunny episode of That 70s Show
When I finished reading all 368 pages of Charles Burns’ graphic novel Black Hole the first thing I thought was, well that three hours would have been better spent listening to Black Hole Sun on…