Hi Darling Ones, The best thing about reading Paul Rees’ Mellencamp biography was learning that his grandkids call him “Peepaw.” The worst thing was absolutely everything else. This is definitely a case of you should…
Date Archives September 2021
Sing It, Chromes
Hi Darling Ones, I’ve been thinking about The Jayhawks a lot lately for reasons that will become clear at some point in the new future. Just to be clear, I’m talking the rock & roll…
Shaming Steven
Hi Darling Ones, I just got off the phone with my friend EM, my westernerd friend who lives in Madison. We were debriefing about the weekend. Well, she was. My weekend consisted of napping, reading,…
Take Today, For Instance
Dear Darling Ones, I have just finished reading Sally Rooney’s new novel Beautiful World, Where Are You, and wow does she know how to write a book. She’s an Irish writer who crafts these novels…
Hoping I Missed the Memo
Hi Darling Ones, I am writing under the influence of nachos. Despite having a very late lunch with BFK for CSA Thursday, I decided at 7:30 if I didn’t have nachos I would probably perish…
The COVID Diaries: Ready to Shoot Sparks of Sadness & Fear
Dear Darling Ones, Last night I watched the Netflix comedy special “Bo Burnham: Inside.” I almost want to put the word comedy in quotation marks, not so much out of sarcasm but more as a…