Urban Honking

Ah, a lovely Sunday with nothing to do! I never know how to spend days like this. As of this moment I have eaten half a bagel and re-read my own blog entry from 3 years ago about the Mitford sisters. It’s sad to read a collection of life-spanning letters. You get so into those […]

I had my birthday and I turned 36 years old, who could believe it? My body yearns downward more and more, reaching for the earth. Everything’s sagging. The other day my old man was vacuuming and I was furiously applying night cream and it struck me as funny. I don’t mind aging, not really. Sometimes […]

It’s hard to know how influential a band like the Neo Boys are. For those who don’t know, the Neo Boys were a young all-female punk band from the late 70s in Portland, Oregon. Their first show was opening for Television. An auspicious start. The also played with The Wipers and recorded and released records […]

Am now back from in-law family reunion by a lovely mountain lake in which I swam like a little seal. Being around really religious people is always strange for me, since I grew up wholly heathen, with barely even a tiny amount of lip service ever paid to that way of life. And even my […]

Gary and I have been legally wed for four years now or something Oddly today I am thinking so much about all my friends who made our wedding so amazing, who took so many burdens from off my shoulders and made me feel loved even though I was such a completely frazzled maniac that whole […]

I went to a whole other country to go to a conference on gregorian chant! When I told my friend Nick this, when he picked me up for an amazing evening during the conference because he lives in the city where the conference was, he said, “what’s gregorian chant?” and I said “it’s medieval church […]

Yesterday the dog woke us up at 6 a.m. with diarrhea (the previous night I had patted his butt and said to Gary “I think we got the best one” in the voice of Nic Cage in Raising Arizona, so obviously God has to punish you when you jinx yourself like that, word to the […]

dang y’all, two of you have now told me that iPads are good for pdfs! I always just thought an iPad was basically a laptop with no keyboard, so I was like, why would I get one of those? But annotating and writing on pdfs = “now I’m interested.” Another glowing rectangle to stare ceaselessly […]

Hot Sunday morning, wearing enormous fluffy sweater and tiny 80’s splatter-paint short-shorts Book about Byron has been open on my lap for over an hour while I lean awkwardly forward over it in order to research coconut body lotions on etsy (Caribbean Coconut) (Shea Butter) (Phalate Free) Should be working on chapter; should be doing […]

Sticking to my recent trendof critically reading mass cultural pablum in spite of the fact that I have been confidently informed by certain friends who are clearly much more knowledgeable than I am that this is a useless activity because mass cultural pablum doesn’t contain subtext or additional meanings other than what’s on its “surface,” […]