in Sunday+Boring on by Jodi Chromey

It’s Monday & I’m Boring: The Thrill of Victory & The Agony of Defeat Edition

My Sundays have taken on a routineness that have made them take boring to whole new levels. Make no mistake, Sunday is easily one of my favorite days of the week. However, not even my superhero-like abilities to make the mundane sound magnificent can take on the boring sameness of my Sundays: write, read, nap, eat. So for a delicious change of pace, I will write about my boring Monday. At Supergenius HQ we believe in shaking up the boring…

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in Music Writing on with 2 Comments by Jodi Chromey

Top 25 Most Listened to Songs of 2013 or Music for writing a book to

For the first time in the nine-year history of the Top 25 I had to turn to the Last.fm charts, rather than rely on my ol’ iTunes play counts (which I reset every year around March 17thish). The entry of Spotify into my life has changed the way I listen to music. This is not a bad development at all, because using iTunes makes me want to light my eyeballs on fire. For real, iTunes is getting right up there…

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in Misc. on by Jodi Chromey

Why I Don’t Wear Green

The title is a lie. Kind of. I wear green all the time in the privacy of my own home. I have a pair of hurt-your-eyes-green pajama pants that I love and used to wear with a frequency that some would consider alarming. The used to wear is only because I recently added two new pairs of pajama pants to my wardrobe and thus the greens don’t come up in the rotation as much as they used to. This is,…

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in Books on by Jodi Chromey

A lot of living to do

A few years ago when I was reviewing Slut Lullabies by Gina Frangello, I made the proclamation that you must read at least three books by a writer before you could claim them as a favorite. I like to make up rules and bylaws about things. Well, guess what people? It’s official, Gina Frangello is one of my favorite writers. Commence your slow clap now. Frangello’s new novel A Life in Men is a tender, wonderful story of friendship, perseverance,…

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in Music on with 5 Comments by Jodi Chromey

Paul Westerberg + Liz Phair = Lydia Loveless

Sometime in the heart of winter, a Westernerd pal posted in our supersecret Westernerd Facebook thing about Lydia Loveless and how some magazine I can’t remember was calling her the “female Paul Westerberg.” Interesting. I, of course, hightailed it right to that article and then to Spotify where I listened to what was available, and then promptly forgot about her because I was involved with the Jeremy Messersmith record. Unlike books, it appears, I can only have one true musical…

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in Books on by Jodi Chromey

Dept. of Speculation: A lot of fun to read

On the surface, Dept. of Speculation is the kind of novel that would make me issue forth with dismissive farty noises and a vigorous thumbs down. Struggling Brooklyn writer and mother grapples with ennui and her husband’s betrayal. PPbbbbttttt! In the parlance of the day the amount of fucks I give about writers in Brooklyn is zero. In fact I have gone so far as to actively avoid books set in Brooklyn and/or written by people who live in Brooklyn….

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