Urban Honking

Every few months, my husband somehow cajoles me into watching an entire franchise of movies. Once it was all the Lord of the Rings in a row (by the end you want Frodo to choke to death on that fucking ring), we’ve done the Bourne movies in a row twice (totally holds up) and amid […]

I need to talk about my brain. For years I have noticed this problem where I have a really hard time recognizing faces. I have discussed this here before. Even the faces of people I know pretty well, or have spent a lot of time with. It has nothing to do with not remembering the […]

Dear Andrew, How do I become a better keeper of writing deadlines? I am a grad student working on a dissertation that should be finished up soon, and have recently realized (always secretly known) that there is no deadline, however large or small, that I won’t blow with impunity. I frequently tell myself that this […]

That rich people mansion demolition story is in December of 2010. I got upset just re-posting it! Also did you people know you can search all my entries? There’s a little box over there. I don’t know how well it works. If you search “snoopy” you will get every entry probably LOL. I did re-post […]

You guys are great. I had forgotten some of that shit. Snoopy running with the leaf over his face!!! That was truly a great day. Also I am touched by how many of you remember Bird so fondly. I think about Bird a lot. In fact sometimes I call the snoopy “Bird” or “Birdie” and […]

The first follow ups are IN! Letter-Writer (from here on out, “LW”) “Ugh’d Out” posted a comment on “Honeymoon Nightmare” stating full satisfaction with the advice given and the outcome of all the advice on her entire life. Also, her comment is awesome and inspiring and you should read it, especially if you were sexually […]

To be clear–I didn’t delete all my archives, I just unpublished them! They’re still there. I think I will be going back and kind of selectively republishing and just generally curating things a little bit better. I am happy to answer any questions you have about these goings-on, or indeed about details of the past […]

ALSO: This snoopy turns 2 in June. He is a man grown. At the park the other day he was trying to find his stick. His body language is really funny when he’s in “find it” mode, he’s unusually wiggly. This lady walking a baby carriage stops and raises her sunglasses and says with no […]

Starting over! Why not? It’s my party and I can cry if I want to. Do you know that I have been writing this blog for ten years? Who even was I when I began? I didn’t really know what a blog was or what the internet was for. I hadn’t even met my old […]

Burnside Street gallery Nationale hosts the watercolors of  William Damiano through the 27th of this month. While a multitude of pop-cultural and historical figures–Sonic the Hedgehog, Marilyn Monroe and Busby Berkeley among them–appear in or are referenced by Damiano’s broader body of work, Nationale’s selection, entitled “Art Show,” spotlights characters of Damiano’s own invention. The […]