This was the view from the desk at the Continuing Education building on the UofM campus in St. Paul. A few of the things I witnessed during the seventeen hours I was perched behind the…
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Nagging works
For a long time I’ve been longing for a good place to go to get good musical recommendations. And more than recommendations I wanted someone/something to offer advice. As you may remember, I have lost…
Every minute is pure joy
Last night at Rock & Roll Bookclub somewhere between the homemade chili with chorizo and three different peppers and the divine butter cream chocolate dessert, I decided it would be a good idea to drink…
Making it right
Monday, I was pretty damn sure I’d never deal with Tires Plus again. I was still pretty miffed at the shoddy treatment I received over the weekend, and when the manager called I blew him…
Two tales to renew your faith in humanity
One: Ruby & I took a little slide into the ditch on our way to The Nerdery this morning. It wasn’t dramatic. There was no median jumping, no careening into oncoming traffic, no landing on…
Yes we can, yes we can, yes we can!
Nolan has informed me that Barack Obama has won and that it’s a good thing because McCain was kind of rude. Now he sits on the couch leafing through an old issue of Rolling Stone…
Two things I can tell you about the Ethan Canin reading
1. Ethan Canin told me I was making him nervous. I wasn’t even doing anything creepy. All I did was introduce myself and told him that the e-mail he sent me about my post on…
Good thing I didn’t name the iPod Barry Jive and his Uptown Five
Last week I finally got my copy for Send Yourself Roses from the publisher. I was pretty stoked because now I could finally see for myself what page 237 really said. I can’t tell you…
Namechecked by Kathleen Turner
So I got a mention in Kathleen Turner’s memoir Send Yourself Roses. It is by far the weirdest, most random thing to happen to me up to this point. This morning I got a lovely…
A failure at wallowing
I’ve been doing my best this weekend to wallow in a sea of self pity. Because impending unemployment and Christmas didn’t suck enough, PMS has decided to come for a visit. This makes for a…