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I Got a Creepy Box in the Mail & Dyed My Hair Blue: Unrelated Incidents

I arrived home this afternoon from my babysitting job to find a big, heavy box propped up against the front door of Supergenuis HQ. Since I’m a book blogger I’m used to having unordered packages regularly arriving on my doorstep. 99.9% of them time these packages are filled with books. For instance, today I got Sweetness #9 by Stephan Eirik Clark (who teaches at Augsburg). I plan on getting it into the rotation as soon as I finish one of…

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Well I Lost My Heart, it Didn’t Take No Time

I warned everyone that I had big plans to cry through Jeremy Messersmith’s “It’s Only Dancing” when he played it at Rock the Garden on Saturday. And I did. I cried through most of his set, because it was pretty rad. But I have to confess my tear ducts were pretty primed by the time he took the stage. See, Sister #2 emotionally leveled me before she even fully sat down next to me Saturday afternoon. “I accepted a position…

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Anti-Bummers, an idea stolen from Carrie Mesrobian

My friend Carrie does this thing on Twitter when life is working her last nerve and she realizes she’s ceaselessly cranky and needs some help gaining perspective. She lists things that are Anti-Bummers. I’m having a really rough go of it this week. So rough, in fact, that typing the words “really rough go of it” reduces me to tears. I’m in desperate need of something, so I’m going to give Anti-Bummers a try. Anatomy of a Country Music Song…

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A Prickly Novel

Well now. The time has come to talk about An Untamed State by Roxane Gay. If you have been living under a rock and haven’t heard of Roxane Gay, get thee to Google. She’s an amazing writer — smart, thought-provoking, funny, poignant. Reading her whether on Tumblr or Twitter or in Salon is fantastic. If I hadn’t crowned Christa my very favorite writer on the Internet for life, Gay could probably rest comfortably in that throne. So it was great…

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Fancy & Thoughtful: The Newest Member of Supergenius HQ

One of the dangers of being a single person who lives alone and has been kind of busy is that your refrigerator can go on the blink and you might not even notice it until all the stuff in the freezer has gone from frozen to room temperature. That’s what happened to me yesterday. It was a discovery I made, much to my dismay, upon arriving home with $100 worth of fresh groceries. I have to admit, I’m pretty proud…

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Road Maps & Bra Straps & Goochers & Signs

For an agnostic who likes to believe she leans pretty heavy on the atheist side of the religion spectrum I have a strange and unshakable belief in signals, signs, goochers, and various chronicles of stuff foretold. Maybe I am a mystic at heart. It’s probably all that Stevie Nicks in my formative years. Or I am an indecisive, ever-changing Gemini who holds contradictory beliefs. You know, if astrology is your thing. I also believe in juju, vibes, whammies, and Joan…

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