Hello Darling Ones, In honor of this historical day I’ve made a list of 22 of my second favorite things. Second favorites have been on my mind a lot since I made that Bittersweetheart Playlist. “Bittersweetheart” is my second favorite Soul Asylum song. “Marionette” is my favorite for cute boy singing it to me at an Olive Garden in Eau Claire, WI in 1996 reasons. Obviously. Before I get to the second favorites, I have to brag a little. I…
Darling Ones, This is just to say that about 36 big balloons came loose from their moorings and found their way to my house. I noticed them this morning as I was drinking coffee and staring aimlessly out the front window listening to that Anaïs Mitchell record I am obsessed with. Since the balloons were on the ground I was 99% sure this wasn’t a grand romantic gesture by a secret admirer. Nevertheless, I picked them up off the ground…
So Darling Ones, Last night I watched “Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time.” As I’m sure you’ve surmised it’s a documentary about Vonnegut. You can watch it on Hulu. At one point in the movie they show a clip of a speech where he utters this famous line from Man Without a Country: “And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, ‘If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what…
Hi Darling Ones, Sometime in the recent past, which could mean anytime between March 20, 2020 and yesterday, I read a tweet from someone carping about adulthood. Specifically this person was complaining about how if you have a mortgage and pay your utilities you cannot complain about being bad at adulting. I wish I could remember who tweeted this. My guess is it was someone who was in the gifted program as a child and now has self-diagnosed ADD and…
Hey Darling Ones, Did I ever tell you about the time back in aught-something when I ghosted a man I had been seeing for months on Valentine’s Day? Of course I didn’t because that awful woman ruined the sharing of romantic entanglements for the lot of you. Ghosting someone after Valentine’s Day is a dick move. I am not proud of it even though I had good reasons for ending the relationship. In hindsight I should have handled it better…
Hi Darling Ones, Back in the early times of blogging I would spend entire weekends headphones on, nose inches from the computer monitor, sucking down cigarettes and Diet Coke while “redesigning” my blog. This was in the time before themes and WordPress and even blogspot. If you wanted to have a fresh new look you had to hand code that shit. When I say “hand code” I mean you had to right-click & view source on some blog that was…
