Sister #3 & The Tibbles came over tonight to get some stuff. The Tibbs came to collect their electronics abandoned here yesterday because they don’t bring them to their dad’s house. Sister #3 came to…
Date Archives March 2015
Anti-Bummers: Because, Of Course Edition
I haven’t really cried since Saturday. A few tears have slipped out my eyes, but nothing serious. The Current decided to play nothing but The Rolling Stones for four hours and it made me so…
The Day After or How Wallowing is Done at Supergenius, Inc.
7:00 a.m. Wake from a dream, grab your phone in hopes of finding apologetic texts or emails, finding none, roll over and watch the sun rise over the neighbor’s trees. Try not to feel. Try…
Letter to the Young Chef
Dear Michael, I know now that is not your name. I figured it out pretty quickly after you Bergered me with that text just hours before we were supposed to see each other. At that…
The Ballad of the Young Chef & the Old Fool
It’s been a long time since I’ve dipped my toes into the dating pool. After a million billion bad experiences I just kind of hung it up. I packed myself away and decided some people…
It’s Monday & I’m Boring: Waffles & Uncle Tupelo & Miscellany Edition
5:29 a.m. Startled awake by the sound of the snow plows scraping up the eight or nine inches of snow that fell last night. Sounds more like they are trying to scrape away the blacktop….
Top Five Side One, Track Ones: A Teenage Kicks Tribute List
This morning on Teenage Kicks, Jacquie Fuller played two hours of side one, track ones in honor of The Current’s upcoming “High Fidelity” showing at The Fitz. It was, as you can imagine, totally awesome,…
Top 25 Most Listened to Songs of 2014 (Or Music to Revise a Novel to)
The obvious story of this year’s list is Lydia Loveless. Of course. If this shocks anyone clearly you are the kind of reader who skips every single post I make where I yammer about rock…
Girl World, Andrew Smith & Male Privilege
I grew up in a Girl World. That’s what I like to say. I have three sisters and zero brothers. The neighborhood we grew up in was filled with girls around our age. There was…
All the Light We Cannot See Because We Were Bored to Sleep
I’ll be the first to admit I’m kind of an asshole when it comes to war books. They bore me. War is barbaric and dehumanizes us, I get that. Do I need to read one…