You know who had the right idea? People with moats. I was in the middle of lunch (French toast and finishing Megan Abbott’s good but too drawn out for me Give Me Your Hand) when…
Date Archives August 2018
Day 19 of 200: The Weekend of 0 Plans
For the first time in weeks, I had zero plans this weekend. It didn’t come a minute too soon. I was over-socialized to the point of being a zombie. When this happens I can’t think…
Day 18 of 200: Flap Your Wings & Fly Away From Here
In my memory I’m much younger than 26 the summer of 1998 when Liz Phair’s “Whitechocolatespaceegg” came out. Three years post-college and I was working at not my first, but second shitty gas station job…
Day 17 of 200: Fruit of the Drunken Tree
I was up until the wee small hours of the morning finishing Ingrid Rojas Contreras’ phenomenal debut novel Fruit of the Drunken Tree and thus I’ve not been at the top of my game. However,…
Day 16 of 200: The Best Day of the Week
Thursday is my favorite day of the week. It might have started when I was a kid and the whole “Must See TV” thing. More likely it started in college. The paper came out on…
Day 15 of 200: I Will Snack
For a minute, tonight’s snack was pictured above. It was a small bowl of peanut-butter filled pretzels and plain M&Ms. For the record, I have a bag of actual pretzel M&Ms in the pantry. It’s…