First of all as I begin typing this at 1:43 p.m. you should know that it smells like pepperoni in my house. I don’t know why. I haven’t eaten pepperoni in weeks. Also, there is…
Date Archives 2014
Cranky Old Lady Reads a Book Full of Shitty Cliches
Epistolary novels are my genre kryptonite. I find them hard to resist and even harder to quit even when the going is not so great. This is the only reason I can give for finishing…
13 Things About Rock & Roll Bookclub
Nobody can remember how long we’ve been meeting. Heather thought it was gonna be ten years in 2015, but Wolfdogg & I were all “Nuh-uh” since our 10th Friendiversary was on November 4th of 5th,…
I Saw Lydia Loveless on Saturday & It was Fucking Amazing
At one point on Saturday night at the Turf Club Lydia Loveless’ band exited the stage leaving her alone with her guitar. She started into the song “Crazy” from her album Indestructible Machine and I…
Hermit Truths: Every Outing is an Adventure*
*Adventure might be a bit of hyperbole. Maybe. When you never leave your house and a majority of your conversations happen with people in your head and/or cat the bar for adventure is super duper…
How to Build a Not Quite Successful Novel About a Girl
Up until my friend Kurtis read a NY Times review of How to Build a Girl, I had successfully avoided the work of Caitlin Moran. I’d heard a lot of buzz about her book How…
Slumber Party Confessions: Music For Getting it On
My FFJ is going through a nasty bit of rough and thus needed to spend some quality time with a bottle of wine, a pack of cigarettes, me, and some Potato Oles. I’m not gonna…
The Great Celery Discovery
“This is like your childhood’s greatest hits, isn’t it?” I asked Sister #3 as she gleefully dove fork first into last night’s Family Dinner. She grinned at me around a mouthful of something my mom…
Wolf in White WTF?
I’ve spent the entire morning reading review after review of John Darnielle’s Wolf in White Van, the debut novel from The Mountain Goats’ singer that was long-listed for the National Book Award. After reading each…
Into the MP3 Deeps: Lucinda + Lydia + Liz = Longing
One of the best things about being a writer who listens to music when they write is you get to spend a lot of time thinking about and then listening to your very favorite songs…