It would be impossible to measure how excited I was when I first hear that Chrissie Hynde was going to publish a memoir. After all, in their memoirs both Linda Ronstadt and Pat Benatar named…
Date Archives 2015
I Hate When She Comes: A Tale from Christmas Eve
As is tradition, I hosted A Very St. Martin Christmas at Supergenius HQ on Christmas Eve. For the first time ever I bought a Christmas tree. It is two feet tall and pink and tacky…
Random Flashback: You’re So Fucking Special
This random flashback brought to you by hearing “Creep” by Radiohead on the radio this afternoon. After college and before Corporate America I spent two(ish) years working at two different gas stations. With twenty-years of…
TV Shows I Have Devoured in the Recent Past
Up until last week I had a pretty serious “Match Game 78” habit. I would arrange my life in such a way that I was always parked on the couch at 8 p.m. to watch…
Oh So Much Boring Whining
Every day starts with the same goal: I am totally going to bust through three chapters of The Beast today and rickety rock The Casbah. Every day ends the same way: I am human garbage…
Amnesia & Tragedy & Poop Emojis: A Rant
Much like all of you my Facebook has been flooded with red, white, and blue profile pictures, an Eiffel-towered peace sign and many vague thoughts and prayers for those killed in the attacks on Paris…
Soundtrack By Mary
One of the things I really, really liked about that Chrissie Hynde memoir that has me still trying to find words to write about is how much she loved the radio. A lot of the…
Ranking All the Female Rockstar Memoirs I’ve Read Thus Far
When I was a kid, I read a lot of memoirs by actresses (or the daughters of actresses) from the forties and fifties, Hollywood’s golden era or some such bullshit. I don’t know. What I…
Anti-Bummers: Because Sexism, Disappointment & The Fading of the Light
Yesterday I was on a conference call with a client and the marketing agency he’s working with. Before the client joined the call the dude from the agency was talking about how they checked me…
The Melancholy of Late October
Generally speaking the best times to be alive in Minnesota, a state where so much of your emotional life can be dependent on the weather, are June and October. I am sure there are some…