Last weekend I got an email from Christa who was twenty-five pages from the end of Every Love Story is a Ghost Story and she didn’t want to finish it because she knew what was…
Date Archives September 2012
He wants to listen to Bob Dylan & yet I have the antiquated notions about music
I was babysitting The Tibbles last week when the new Paul Westerberg song hit my Gmail. Because I have the job of a fifteen-year-old girl, I reacted like a fifteen-year-old girl when I saw an…
A New Paul Westerberg Song! ‘My Road Now’
Sweet! There’s a new song from Paul Westerberg and better yet I get to share it with you. Download My Road Now (right click, command click, save as. . . you know how to do…
A short list of current obsessions
[circle_list] Saying “Ugh.Barf!” about everything that annoys me in any way. The Amanda Palmer/$1.2 million on Kickstarter and yet mysteriously unable to pay musicians kerfuffle. The first two ‘issues’ of Literary Tiger Beat featuring dreamy…
It is weird & I am sad
This post was syndicated on BlogHer I’ve discovered that it is much easier to mourn a cat than it is to mourn a biological father you never met. I don’t know how to do this…
The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving
Jonathan Evison Reading 7:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 14 Magers & Quinn 3038 Hennepin Ave South Minneapolis, MN Benjamin Benjamin is not a likable guy. Even when you factor in the pity you feel for him…
Immediate side effects
The day after you find out the biological father you never met died two years ago, you will find yourself at Target and realize that you no longer have to scrutinize every tall man of…
I went to Google & all I got was this crummy obituary
All I have are his name on my birth certificate and two fuzzy pictures from 1971. I keep those photos in my copy of David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest. I have for years. There’s no…
Not Buying It
To enjoy Kat Rosenfield’s young-adult novel Amelia Anne is Dead and Gone, you have to buy into the conceit that a pretty, blonde, recent college grad can disappear for two months without anyone raising an…
Heavy Metal Boys
The best thing about Gillian Flynn’s Dark Objects is that it allowed me to wax nostalgically about the Satanic Panic of the 80s, a phenomenon I had completely forgotten until this book. I don’t know…