Dear David Carr, I am sorry I am not Paul Westerberg

Last night Jags and I went to see David Carr read at Magers & Quinn and it was awesome. It was packed. People were sitting on the floor, standing in the stacks, and lined up out of the room. It was the kind of turnout that I wish every book reading had. It was made even awesomer by the fact that my much beloved Jim Walsh was conducting a Q & A with Carr. I’ll save the content of the…

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Old Chicago in EP would like to buy a vowel

It was hard to enjoy my lunch under the specter of this misspelling. Oh no, I couldn’t enjoy my lunch because it was frigid degrees below zero in there. It was so cold that my pizza actually steamed up my glasses. It saddened me a little that someone took so much time to draw the picture, and really pimp that Hawaiian pizza all fancy like and yet still got it wrong.

Things I pulled out of the left side of the La-Z-Grrl while looking for my favorite cans

First of all, I found Eurydice, my iPod, in the Kleenex box. My passport drive and USB jump drive were in there too. I was puzzled for about sixty-seven seconds when I remembered that some creepy white minivan piloted by a cigarette smoking man, drove up and down my “street” the other night. I don’t have a real street. I live off a real street, but Supergenius HQ shares what is, essentially, a big driveway with the three other townhouses…

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Glub Glub

About 100 years ago I sent Jaycie and Max the link to the Charlie the Unicorn 2 video. They loved it and watched it about 38,291 times. That’s no exaggeration. They know it by heart and really love the Flugoos mentioned in the video. Since then, the Flugoo family has come to live with them. The Flugoos are naughty imaginary fish who like to do all those reckless things that 9 and 10-year-olds think is really funny. Like smear poop…

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Things I do that if I were my own nagging spouse I would totally give me head for doing

When we last off I was my own nagging spouse, and now a list of things I would totally give myself head for if I were my own nagging spouse: Making sure the washer, dryer, and dishwasher are empty waiting for their next load of things to do Chopping up all the vegetables as soon as I get home from the grocery store so that making a buncha cruncha delicious salad only takes two minutes Generally keeping the big bag…

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