Every day starts with the same goal: I am totally going to bust through three chapters of The Beast today and rickety rock The Casbah. Every day ends the same way: I am human garbage…
Posts tagged the beast
The Editorial Letter & Rising Mojo
The big email I had been waiting for since June slid into my inbox in the midst of an exhausting client meeting. I was at a quirky coffee shop in St. Paul repeatedly explaining why…
Portrait of the Artist as a 43-year-old Spinster
Pictured above is what I looked like yesterday morning on my actual birthday when I woke up after not enough sleep and spending six and a half hours the night before at my favorite bar…
Top 25 Most Listened to Songs of 2014 (Or Music to Revise a Novel to)
The obvious story of this year’s list is Lydia Loveless. Of course. If this shocks anyone clearly you are the kind of reader who skips every single post I make where I yammer about rock…
Breeches of Etiquette
Etiquette has been on my mind a lot lately. I ponder its nuances on a daily basis. Living alone as I do and being in the midst of Angry Hermit season I often fear I…
Living the Immortal Words of the Prophets Paula Abdul & DJ Skat Kat
I went out to lunch with my FFJ yesterday. We met up at Wok in the Park, my favorite place to get Pad Thai. The fact that they were playing that Passion Pit album I…