My “friend” Wolfdogg (the quotation marks are intentional and if you could change your relationship status with your friends on Facebook his would be “friends: but under review for behavior unbecoming”) pointed to this delightful…
Date Archives 2011
Delivering noise & real tough boys
Reading Bob Mould’s autobiography, See a Little Light: The Trail of Rage and Melody, is a little like indulging someone you adore as they tell you about a dream they had about you last night….
A heartfelt apology delivered years too late
Dear Thomptos, Hansons, Trunnells, Daleys, Deppes, and everyone else in the vicinity of 121st Ave. NE and Davenport in Blaine, Minnesota during the mid-80s, Please accept my dearest and most sincere apologies for being so…
Very many Arthurs and all of them good
The novelist Arthur Phillips had me when the character Arthur Phillips mentioned the Minneapolis Star back when Minneapolis was a two-paper town. I have no idea why this small bit of Minnesota trivia charmed me…
What’s in your bag?
I’ll be wrangling, the Naughtiest Tibble, for the next few weeks. He’s had a few problems at the Y Daycare, so he’ll be spending time at Aunt Jodi’s Supergenius Daycare while his brothers continue at…
The 5 stages of reading Genre Fiction
I don’t often read genre fiction (mysteries, horror, sci-fi, fantasy). It’s just not my thing. I prefer fiction where the story is moved forward by characters and character development. Genre fiction, in my experience, is…