October 2008
151 posts
Pretty sure that Chuck Klosterman and Stephenie Meyer went to the same dreadfully dreadful writing school
holy hannah! Amazon makes the rebate process so swift and painless it makes me want to buy lots of rebateable stuff from them
stepping away from the shiny new computer
Featured Question: Shopping Online vs. In-Store →
What’s the last gadget/toy you bought that you didn’t really need? Why did you buy it? Sponsored by Best Buy. That would probably be Gideon, a sleek and shiny new Macbook. He arrived today and…
Wolfdogg just made me us the word douchebag in conversation, I am considering crossing him off the friend list
So, well, now I have a real job
For the amount of discussion Casper Meets Wendy is generating here at Supergenius HQ, you’d think we were watching Citizen Kane
QotD: Cast My Ballot →
The election is a week from today, who are you going to vote for? I’m voting much like Ben. However, I am opting for Al Franken over Dean Barkley. Read and post comments | Send to a…
is attempting to make bean soup
What does it all mean anyway? →
I have to tell you that I started writing about this earlier in the morning, say around 10 a.m. But then I grew frustrated and quit. However after spending the night at Grumpy’s with The Writers…
While I was eating tator tots at Grumpy’s a time-capsule bomb went off in my e-mail — Hello, 1994 I missed you!
i always feel weird when clients use the jodichromeysupergenius e-mail adress, also using the word clients makes me feel like a hooker
Project Runway + Rock of Love Charm School = Heaven
up, but nowhere near at ‘em
sometimes it’s really hard for me to be nice
has David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” on repeat in her head
What Fiction Ought to Be →
“He and Franzen talked a lot about what writing should be for. “We had this feeling that fiction ought to be good for something,” Franzen says. “Basically, we decided it was to combat…
“He and Franzen talked a lot about what writing should be for. “We had this...”
– David Lipsky, Rolling Stone
ooohh McCain is on Meet the Press!
Holy Hannah, it’s snowing in Shakopee
the dried leaves blowing down the street are so loud it sounds like it’s raining
if you cut me open right now you would only find me filled not with blood and guts, but BFK’s homemade pot stickers
Stuffed →
We had Rock & Roll Bookclub tonight at Pepper & Atom’s. Holy crow I cannot remember the last time I ate so much at one sitting. They put out quite the Chinese buffet and now the spot where my…
watching the NOVA episode about quantum physics and the frontman from EELs
An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination →
I’ve been trying to write about Elizabeth McCracken’s memoir An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination for three weeks. I’ve read it twice and I’m still having a hard time…
going to go read Italo Calvino, wish me luck
Has come to the conclusion that my love is equally divided between mini-Snickers and these orange socks on my feet
Re-reading Elizabeth McCracken’s An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination because it is the best book I’ve read all year
Cupcakes! →
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Resisting the urge to school some Internet stranger on what the 3/5 Compromise really meant, my inner Poli-Sci nerd is weeping
for someone who always has peanut butter on her shirt and cat hair on her sweater, i sure like tv shows about fashion
Tired →
Instead of the insomnia that usually plagues me in times of trouble my brain has decided that nightmares are the way to go. Ever since Sunday I’ve woken up in the middle of night covered in…
contemplating going to bed now and waking up next week
I must be in a battleground district, I’ve gotten three pieces of Coleman’s junkmail this week (two from McCain and one from Obama too).
1-2-3-4 potential new freelance gigs since Monday. I call that crazy.
Dear Scooby Doo & The Goblin King, you are the bomb digs for sure. Thanks for your help. Love, Jodi
Updates II →
Still no official offer. I spent a lot of time freaking out about it until a friend told me to cool my jets and that I should realize that whomever has to draw up the letter has about 88 things…
back from NOT seeing Sarah Vowell, didn’t feel like standing in the Manga aisle on the off chance I might be able to hear her
off to see Sarah Vowell
still waiting for an official offer and not anxious at all, no not me.