I’ve been needing something to hold me over between trades of Saga, one of the best comic book series I’ve read in a loooooonnnnnggg time (really, since Fables decided to get really kind of boring)….
Date Archives August 2014
Into the MP3 Deeps: A Selection of Hips Songs
As a kid I kept obsessive lists of fun facts & trivia about my “Sweet Valley High” collection. I filled notebooks with brief plot synopses of each book and would often quiz myself on these…
An Acute Case of the Fuck All Y’Alls
Monday afternoon I sat across from my FFJ in a booth at my favorite Thai restaurant. FFJ is going through some serious grown up emotional business but that did stop my self-indulgent keening. At one…
The Emotion of Grief Really Stinks
If I had been able to get a tattoo in 1989 at the age of 17 it most definitely would have been the words “Carpe Diem” or if I were feeling super adventurous “Gather ye…
Your Collarbones are Overrated: On ‘Liz Phair’s Exile in Guyville’ by Gina Arnold
It is impossible for me to overstate the importance of Liz Phair’s “Exile in Guyville” to me. The music on that album is as much a part of me as my rib cage or my…
Time-Stopping Orgasms without Emotional Stakes are Kind of a Snore
It feels a little weird to have a complaint about emotional realism in a book that centers around two people who have time-stopping orgasms. And yet, here I am complaining about it. I get that…
The Return of the Cat Bastard & Other Tales from Monday
Last night, or rather at 12:45 this morning as Paco began to caterwaul and bat at the downstairs window, and as Walter, who is spending the week at Supergenius HQ while Sisters #2 & #3…
Bark is Kind of a Bore
A new short story collection by Lorrie Moore had me giddy with anticipation when it arrived on my doorstep lo those many months ago when the arctic February winds howled and most of Minnesota was…
Seeing Jason Isbell Meant Stacking Up the Spectacular
After a year of being in a semi-monogamous relationship with Jason Isbell’s album Southeastern, I finally made the time to go see him play. On Wednesday Jaycie & I joined Wolfdogg & Heather in their…