Dear Todd, I was gonna start all coy like, I’m sure you don’t remember me. . . . Chances are if I remember you, you might still remember me. I will cop to having a most excellent memory. I also have no idea what your life has been like since like 1996. So who knows? Memory is difficult to pin down. Need a refresher? I was the 6’5″ student newspaper arts editor/burgeoning alcoholic with the Superman tattoo in my cleavage…
Hi Darling Ones, My plan tonight was to write about rereading Are You There, God? It’s Me Margaret. this afternoon. It was gonna be a humdinger. I know this because when I was telling my friend EM about we both laughed until we cried. But then as I was settling in with my leftover meatloaf dinner I got a text from Sister #2 that our childhood best friend’s mom died this morning. Jan had been on her way out for…
Dear Darling Ones, The very best thing about having a personal blog that exists for your amusement is you can randomly list seven songs that are either about the moon or mention the moon and you don’t have to explain why if you don’t want to. I wondered, I guessed, and I tried. You just knew. I sighed, but you swooned. I’m so tired. I wish I was the moon tonight. Like a moon and a lonely star, you’re gone….
Hi Darling Ones, Before I begin I have to tell you that by sheer coincidence Paul Simon’s “Me & Julio Down by the Schoolyard” is coming in over the cans as I type. The song is part of an algorithmically-determined Happy Mix playlist. The Happy Mix is one of my standard go-tos when I got a lot of work to do and don’t want to put thought into what is flowing in my ears. The songs on this mix are…
Darling Ones, Olivia Newton-John died. I was surprised at the swiftness of the tears and sadness upon reading the news. Her death has thrown me back into the very early 80s of my mind and my very first rumblings of pop culture awareness. Chronologically, Grease came first (1978) but in my world, “Physical” came first. As far as I was concerned only five songs existed in 1981/1982: “I Love a Rainy Night,” by Eddie Rabbit “Jessie’s Girl” by Rick Springfield…
Hi Darling Ones, This week I read Hanif Abdurraqib’s A Little Devil in America again. For the third time. Since October 2021. I love this book because it makes my synapses feel like they’ve been eating Pop Rocks. This is a smart, beautiful book and every time I read it I feel an eensy bit smarter. It has become one of my comfort books, which is a little bit like my comfort TV shows. Are you familiar with the concept…
