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take me to meet the monster
THE LOVELY URBAN GRIT On one of those “fuck dinner” days, I made arrangements to pick LT up from the train and take him and Nora out to our favorite bar/pizza restaurant. The memory of even the worst workday with the stupidest meetings can be erased by fried cheese. We got to the Howard station […]
stands next to your love
IT’S SO FLAT If I have lunchtime errands, the route I take involves crossing the same street twice (which is totally possible, fuck you Heraclitus). This is because of crazy construction activity and blocked-off sidewalks. This could be kind of a drag, but now I look forward to it because of SMASHED RAT! A smashed […]
oh no I spilled the milk on the table
PEANUTS, CRACKERJACK, AND A SLAP UPSIDE THE HEAD You people are very patient as I have been ranting about stupid baseball fans for years, but it is a constant summer annoyance and yesterday was particularly bad. All I ask is that Cubs management avoid scheduling home games during my hormonally-induced Very Cranky Moods, is that […]
rev it up
My eyebrow-waxing lady, who sometimes talks to me about professional wrestling or the Lord of the Rings movies (and who once went on a Lord of the Rings movie-location package tour) has a new type of crazy thing to talk to me about—her alkaline diet. I am fascinated at the wrongness involved. She went on […]
tragic carpet ride
MAKING ME CRINGE Here is enough shameless self-promotion to last me at least a decade: an interview I did with Margaret Lazarus Dean via instant messenger. I think I sound kind of like a dumb stoner, with my “whatever, man” flip comments to Margaret’s smart questions about genre and prose-craft and the future of books, […]
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