I haven’t opened a single Christmas present yet, but I already got the best gift I’m gonna get this year. You see, Saturday night I had myself a little panic attack. I was still pretty…
Posts tagged Happiness & Joy
Come rejoice with me in my writing validation
Writing is kind of a thankless obsession. It’s filled with rejection, self-doubt, and general insanity. When you’re an unpublished fiction-writer, like me, the validation for what you’re doing doesn’t come very often, but when it…
You’ll recoup a big fat Mercedes
Do you remember that scene in High Fidelity when Rob comes into Championship, limping? Dick and Barry are standing at the counter listening to the tape by Vince and Justin? “Who is this,” Rob says….
Mary Gaitskill told me I had a radiant smile
Mary Gaitskill is tiny. She wore a perfectly tailored, brown pinstriped suit (the one here. The podium came up to her chest, and she read from Veronica under the heavy, dark eyebrow of Frida Kahlo….
Of all the late-night shitty greasy spoons in all the world, Mike Doughty walked into mine
(wolfdogg took this picture, click to see the ‘notes’) Listen up all you doubters. Yes, all you who do not believe in the power of my Make Sweet Sweet Love to Me™ Vibe. It works!…
the joys of technology
i’ve been working since 8:30 this morning. usually this would be something i would complain about. . . but i haven’t even gotten out of bed yet. i love wireless internet, laptops and being a…