Okay, so. I almost didn’t do this playlist. Even though I skipped last week’s playlist. I’ve just been so busy lately, and what’s more, I have been listening to the same two albums over and over and over...
Read MoreSo, guys. I try not to be a blogger who’s like, HEY WHAT’S UP NOT MUCH JUST THINGS YOU KNOW and then tosses in a few pictures and runs away. But that is exactly what is about to happen here. You have been forewarned....
Read MoreThe other day I was sitting on a couch talking with a friend when all of a sudden, my brain left my body. Not physically, mind you — though that would be a great party trick.1 No, I became hyperconscious of what exactly my body...
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It was long past midnight on New Year’s, and I was slumped over on a chair, legs dangling...
Read MoreSo this morning while I was getting ready for work I started thinking about the T.V. show Intervention, and I started replaying the end of this one episode in my head where the sister and brother and father read their heartfelt...
Read MoreI was reading the latest Matt Taibbi article in Rolling Stone at the gym this morning when these three paragraphs hit me square in the chest [bolded emphasis mine]: Another Ohio Democrat, Steve Driehaus, clashed repeatedly with...
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“Did she just say she wants a juicehead gorilla?” the beau asked, in reference to...
Read MoreThe summer between sixth and seventh grade, my mom and I moved down south to join my dad, who had already settled into his new assignment ahead of us. I saw the move as my chance at reinvention. An opportunity to shed my...
Read MoreOnce you are married, your uterus — which all your single life has been a privately held company — goes public. Suddenly everyone fancies themselves shareholders and has ideas to pitch on the future of the, uh,...
Read MoreSCENE Fifth grade. I am standing in a courtyard between buildings. I am wearing glasses, a white and red t-shirt printed with illustrated dalmatian puppies and hearts, and pink cotton leggings tucked into purposefully mismatched...
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When you travel by train, you see everything cars don’t. You see what people try to hide, like...
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