October 2008
151 posts
Stuff I've Been Read: A Stolen Monthly Column... →
I really love that M——-l has this monthly column about books. Since I am always scrabbling about for ideas, I am totally ripping off this idea. I hope he doesn’t mind. I will give him the…
September 2008
204 posts
the surgery separating my ass from the chair has been a complete success and we’re both expected to make a full recovery
A review of Downtown Owl →
In a Pop Matters interview Chuck Klosterman says, “It was harder to write fiction, but maybe that was only because I’d never done it before. I can’t remember if writing Fargo Rock City was hard…
is going to read the stories for class any minute now
Doing more singing along to The Cranberries’ “Zombie” than editing of the ghost story
convinced I will never, ever, ever be able to resist the allure of The Goonies whenever it’s on TV
sometimes it’s still painful to watch Meet the Press, I love Tommy Broks but he’s no Tim
Bono, The King of Ireland →
Instead of doing anything of value, I watch this opening from SNL over and over and over again. I think if McCain had actually chosen Tina Fey as his running mate he’d have a shot. Read and…
Tina Fey on SNL just called Bono the King of Ireland, and I think I peed my pants
QotD: Political Debate →
Who would you hope to never face in a political debate? hotrod. Read and post comments | Send to a friend
there’s a dead mouse on my front step, now I’ll probably have to move
this orgy of spending — nice! you voted for all of his budgets #current
McCain looks so angry right now I’m waiting for his head to explode
everytime Obama speaks it sounds like a Baptist church in here with the mmhmms and the oh yeahs
we’ve reached the loud Sister Golden Hair singalong portion of our afternoon
jim lehrer is laying down the law
Too busy to blog →
Too busy talking politics and Google phones to blog. Sorry. Read and post comments | Send to a friend
going to spend the next hour pantless reading The Alcoholic by Jonathan Ames
finished The Alcoholic. It made me laugh and cry. Wondering if there will ever be a point in my life where 9/11 don’t make me cry
amused by e-mails pimping Obama from far-flung friends who I haven’t heard from in 100 years
Some old pictures & a few new ones too →
I was cleaning of my I Will Dare server and moving some old pictures to Flickr. I thought I’d share. Because you really don’t want to hear again…
ridiculously excited by the old, old, old Billy Joel concert on channel 13 right now
It's National Singles Week: Here Are 14 Reasons... →
wondering why Paste magazine refuses to believe that I am not Paul Westerberg
trying to reclaim brain cells lost by accidentally watching Entertainment Tonight (at 1 shouldn’t it be Entertainment This Afternoon)?
Shit eating grin →
I had a good day today. A damn good day. First, I got a check in the e-mail for a freelance gig. Sweet! Second, all three people I asked to answer my MN Reads six questions said yes. Super…
Just split a Little Debbie snack cake with Liam while watching the Ting Tings and Jan from The Office on Yo Gabba Gabba
making vampire puppets
Nolan: “Hey why don’t we set up some evil stuff?”
waiting for my second wind and resisting the urge to quote that Billy Joel song
rewatching the Book TV tribute to Philip Roth featuring Jonathan Lethem, Charles D’Ambrosio, and Nathan Englander
a lot of times it’s more fun to watch the weather out the window than it is to watch TV
I’ve purged Supergenius HQ of Downtown Owl, plan on burning sage to get rid of any residual stink
20 minutes before bed →
It is 11:40 p.m. and I think if I start typing maybe I’ll come up with something to say. I don’t have much to say though because I talked a lot today and all the words were talked out. It’s…
Minnesota too nice →
I am sure this confession is going to come as a surprise to some of you. In fact, it might shake you to your very core. Here it is, I like to argue. Besides eating brownies it’s my very favorite…
eavesdropping on the trio next to me who are planning some sort of fundraising event
lost in a post-class objective correlative glow