Before: In case you forgot, these are the low-slung brown pigtails I was eager to get rid of. After: As you can see I’m still rocking the home alone pigtails. They are home alone because I have some weird thing about a forty-year-old woman walking out in the world with pigtails. And because they make me look like Cabbage Patch Kid. Also, Helen the Haircutter, and I have different ideas of what constitutes a bob. Whatever, I don’t even mind…
Where Musicgeek Meets Booknerd
On most any given weekend afternoon from about 1985 until 1989 you could often find me camped out on my bedroom floor in front of my stereo. It was a KMart special I got for my thirteenth birthday. It had a record player and a tape deck, and was the reason I bought most of my music on vinyl (which I never called vinyl, but records) until 1989. Though I often got tapes for gifts (which was my main source…
It’s Sunday & I’m Boring: The Super Productive Edition
Welcome back to the boringest ongoing series here on I Will Dare. You’re in for a special treat today because I was super boring today but only because getting a lot of shit done doesn’t make for a lot of time to do exciting stuff. As per usual I ate breakfast and drank coffee with David Gregory. I only half paid attention this morning because my brain was a little spinny and he had Wayne LaPierre, president of the NRA…
Looks like progress & feels like love
I wake up every morning between 4:30 and 5 a.m. to pee. According to Sister #3 who went to nursing school before deciding to become a social worker like Sister #2, it’s due to my kidneys getting old and failing. Or maybe my kidneys working too well. Or it might be that I drink a lot of water throughout the day. I can’t remember now what the reason is, maybe it I have to pee at the end of the…
The reason I sing J. Geils Band’s ‘Centerfold’ every morning
The titles of Karen Russell’s books make my brain do a kind of Weird-Al-esque karaoke. I like to believe this has more to do with Russell’s imaginative stories infiltrating my brain than anything else. When I read her fabulous debut novel Swamplandia!, I sang The Decemberists’ “O Valencia!’ for two weeks straight. Now she gives us a batch of equally wonderful stories called Vampires in the Lemon Grove and if you can say that title without singing it to the…
Your Assignment Should You Choose to Accept It: Your Favorite Song About Having a Crush
First before I get to your assignment I need to share with you my new favorite song. It’s called “Little Numbers” by BOY and I listened to it about 20 times yesterday. The Current dropped this song in my life at a perfect time in my writing life where my main character is going to cover a song about having a crush on someone. This song is a delightful, hand-clappy piece of pop perfection about crushes and phone numbers and…