My Uncle George died last night of a heart attack. In that picture up there, a picture of a Polaroid from Christmas 1982, he’s the one with the glasses. My mom scrawled “Mom kids” on…
Date Archives February 2014
It’s Sunday & I’m Boring: Hurt in My Heart Edition
When you come from a large family with lots of boisterous voices you are used to conversations bouncing back and forth through a variety of topics, often at the same time. It’s kind of nice…
On Never Shutting Up
When I was a precocious, annoying, twenty-year-old I took a Women’s Lit class. It was awfulmazing, equal parts awful and amazing all at the same time. It was a summer class with maybe a dozen…
It’s Sunday & I’m Boring: Down with the Twizzle Edition
[icon icons=”icon-clock-1″ align=”left” size=”icon-2x” color=”#8A9B0F”] 8:08 a.m. Willie Nelson is singing “Sad Songs and Waltzes” on the radio at the moment which makes this pre-coffee time in the morning a bit more bearable. Even though…
Doubling Down
I’m not entirely sure what it means to double down. It has something to do with black jack, right? I’m not much of a gambler. When I worked at The Nerdery, my friend Malmsy and…
My Neutral Milk Hotel: A GenXer’s Perspective
I did not go see Neutral Milk Hotel at First Avenue last night. I won’t go tonight. Even though I was twenty-six in 1998, I didn’t see them that year when they played the 400…