Dear Darling Ones, I’m sitting here typing on my blog impatiently waiting for my mom to come over and pick up the coffee that BFK & Atom left for her. Yes, this does bring up a bunch of questions. For instance: why does my mom still get coffee from The Windmill? Why does she have to pick up here? Why am I involved in this transaction at all? I Google Mapsed it. My mom lives 3.2 miles from here, there’s…
Dear Darling Ones, My absolute favorite part of Matthew Sweet’s song “Sick of Myself” comes in at about 3:14 when you think the song is winding down and he says in a kinda growly way, “One more time.” Gah, it just fucking sends me. I’m sure I’ve listened to this song 92,184 times since it was released and every single time that “one more time” comes up my heart gets a little zoomy with happiness, and when I’m singing along…
Dear Darling Ones, I skipped the presidential debate last night, and I’m angry about it. This might have been the first debate I missed since Clinton vs Bush I back in the early 90s. I didn’t expect to be angry about skipping it, but as I’ve said before the anger is a river of white-hot lava that is constantly flowing just below my surface and it can erupt at any moment. Last week I asked my friend EM if all…
As far as I can remember there was not a big hubbub about the song “Brick” by Ben Folds Five being played on the radio. I do remember it was played on the radio about 938 times an hour, because it was a popular song during my gas station days when I spent 8-10 hours a shift listening to 90s alternative radio. My fellow GenXers, am I misremembering? Did the controversy pass me by? Did it miss the Twin Cities…
Do you ever notice there’s a certain type of liberal dude who must take twitter each morning, before they begin work, to pontificate on the events of the day? It’s like a task on their To Do List. 1. Shower 2. Brush Teeth 3. Take to twitter so I can espouse all my very important manly opinions about the state of our democracy 4. Work Then these same dude disappear for the length of the work day and maybe come…
So, Darling Ones, I closed on the Supergenius HQ’s refinance yesterday and now our long, national nightmare is over. Just kidding, our actual national nightmare continues, unabated, because Republicans are greedy, immoral monsters with no conscience and continue to support the fascist, racist gameshow host in chief. Ugh. Barf. However, I no longer have to worry about a $24K balloon payment looming at me in January 2021. Instead, I now have a mortgage that costs less per month than the…