One Because I love my nephew, Cade, so much I am willing to do things that I wouldn’t normally do. For instance, awkwardly circle the bolts of novelty fleece with a smoky-smelling business man in a very nice overcoat. I don’t know what he was looking for, but we ran into each other so many times that I wanted to die a little. How many oopsie faces can one make without having to say something? I’m not sure, apparently it…
Late last week I tripped into a musical hole called 1986 (which actually included music from about 1984-1986, and would probably be more accurately called a Junior High Musical Hole) and I’ve had a really hard time getting out of it. And lest you think otherwise, I will tell you right now my version of 1986 didn’t include anything by The Smiths or R.E.M. or The Replacements. While I know, now, that they all existed in 1986 they didn’t matter…
First of all, for those of you who want to know such things I listed my 10 favorite books of 2012 over at MN Reads. Second of all, I started most of these habits back over Thanksgiving weekend when I got the new couch. Did I tell you about the new couch? It is brown and very couchlike. I got a new couch because I was tired of the short blue couch. I told you this, didn’t I? I’m too…
Brian K. Vaughn is one of those comicbook writers whose name I cannot speak without emitting a dreamy sigh after it. This is similar to the way I said “Fonzie” when I was ten. I may have to start sighing after I say the name Fiona Staples too, because she’s responsible for the fantastically dreamy art that accompanies Saga Volume 1. Oftentimes when you start reading a new comicbook series there seems to be a lot of WTFness as you…
I rang in the New Year at Sister #2’s house as I do most every year. Occasionally I get all crabby and spend the evening alone, but that only happens once every five or so years. I’ve had roughly three really memorable New Year’s Eves in my life one of which is not meant to be described on this site that is often mislabeled ‘Pornography’ by censoring software because then it wouldn’t be mislabeled anymore. And the others are mostly…
I had a lot of goals for 2012. Some I achieved (buy a new couch, stay out of a cube) and some I did not achieve (finish writing a book, read 52 books*). Of all the goals I set, watching the entire series of Buffy the Vampire Slayer feels like the biggest achievement. It was a lot of work and at times I wanted to give up (season two anyone?), but I persevered and despite my loathing of vampires I…
