I arrived home this afternoon from my babysitting job to find a big, heavy box propped up against the front door of Supergenuis HQ. Since I’m a book blogger I’m used to having unordered packages…
Date Archives June 2014
Well I Lost My Heart, it Didn’t Take No Time
I warned everyone that I had big plans to cry through Jeremy Messersmith’s “It’s Only Dancing” when he played it at Rock the Garden on Saturday. And I did. I cried through most of his…
Anti-Bummers, an idea stolen from Carrie Mesrobian
My friend Carrie does this thing on Twitter when life is working her last nerve and she realizes she’s ceaselessly cranky and needs some help gaining perspective. She lists things that are Anti-Bummers. I’m having…
A Prickly Novel
Well now. The time has come to talk about An Untamed State by Roxane Gay. If you have been living under a rock and haven’t heard of Roxane Gay, get thee to Google. She’s an…
Fancy & Thoughtful: The Newest Member of Supergenius HQ
One of the dangers of being a single person who lives alone and has been kind of busy is that your refrigerator can go on the blink and you might not even notice it until…
Road Maps & Bra Straps & Goochers & Signs
For an agnostic who likes to believe she leans pretty heavy on the atheist side of the religion spectrum I have a strange and unshakable belief in signals, signs, goochers, and various chronicles of stuff…
Vaguebooking by a Famous Person
Rob Lowe’s latest memoir Love Life is as dull and disappointing as the first one, Stories I Tell My Friends, was charming and delightful. Sad trombone. It feels super snotty to say, but Love Life…
Progress Report: Of Interest Only to Me (Seriously)
Ever since my friend, Donna, totally inadvertently shamed me into working on The Beast, I’ve been pretty diligent with the making of the words. Well, I became pretty diligent after I spent approximately three and…
The Sins of My CD Collection
Last night I hosted Rock & Roll Bookclub at Supergenius HQ. Even though we’ve been down two members for a few months due to teen volleyball sensations and their hectic schedules, it is still one…