First of all, you should know that today after “Meet the Press” (which was about Benghazzzzzzzi) I watched an episode of “The Brady Bunch” that I had never seen before. If you had asked me before this morning I would have claimed to have seen every single episode of “The Brady Bunch” so many times that I could lay out the plot within the first 60 seconds of the episode. But today! Today I saw the episode where Great Grandma…
The best thing about reading Touch & Go by Lisa Gardner is that it made me appreciate how damn good Gillian Flynn and Gone Girl are. I’ve mentioned before that I’m not much a genre reader. But since this year is all about reading outside my comfort zone, when Gardner’s mystery was offered up as our next Rock & Roll Bookclub read I retracted my initial farty-noise dismissal and agreed to give it a go. Ugh. This was one of…
I like to believe my obsession with Edgar Allan Poe & O.Henry began in junior high. That feels right for some reason I can’t explain. But my memory won’t even let me buy into that, because I’m pretty sure I didn’t read Poe until 10th grade English class. I’m getting a distinct 10th grade vibe from thinking about “The Tell-Tale Heart.” Perhaps The Cask of Amontillado was 11th grade? Regardless, I fell in love with Edgar Allan Poe and O….
“What was that band you were really into in like 2006? 2007?” Wolfdogg asked me at a not-very-long-ago bookclub. “The Eels? The Shins? Ted Leo?” “No. They were European or something.” “Sondre Lerche? Tallest Man on Earth? Peter Bjorn & John?” “No. You really loved them they might have been Scottish. Kind of poppy.” “The Kooks?” “Yeah, The Kooks.” “What about them?” “I don’t remember now.” “I really loved them.” “Yeah, you did.” I have this conversation and ones very…
Spent three hours trying to get my three-year-old printer to connect wirelessly to my wireless network so I could print out the CSA registration form. Spent at least 20 minutes pouting about my wireless printer’s inability to connect to my wireless network. Set 82,192 curses upon the heads of the people who made the Brother Printer user interface and an additional 281,282 curses on the heads of the assholes who write their “help” documentation. Print my stupid form un-wirelessly like…
Ha! I’ve been boring all week. I was laid low by a sinus headache for most of the week which just spiralled into a bout of sloth and self-loathing fed by cold and snow. I’ve decided sinus headaches are like migraines without the light sensitivity and vomiting but with the added benefit of not being able to move your head and/or eyes without wanting to die. Good times. Man, May has been a total bitch so far. However, the sun…
