[ 2 minute read ] So along with this rosacea bout, I have a light but lively body itch, a ringing in my ears, some localized swelling, an eye-rolling problem, and a grudge. How’s YOUR new year going?
[ 2 minute read ] What’s he wearing, for instance, and how do I get his job? Here’s my CV: It’s Wednesday but it feels like Friday, I feel like a piece of lemon meringue pie, it feels a lot earlier than 5, and I feel funny in this shirt. So, like, when do I start?
[ one minute if you read slow ] Okay so I just practically broke into a run on my way home from the gym – but I didn’t – because it might have looked even worse
[ 2 minute read ] That may sound like a glass half full kind of thing when it’s actually just the way it goes after an eye appointment. What’s a glass half full thing is when you listen to your endorphins when they cheer you on in the totally wrong direction, the little fuckers
[ 2 minute read ] So if you come into my kitchen and it’s half-painted and the cupboards are hanging open and where’s all the dishes and Daisy has grated parmesan on her back and she’s wearing my glasses and the cat’s balancing on piles of there’s all the dishes trying to suck water from the tap, and the fish are mouthing help, and there’s only apples, you know I’m in a good place
[ 2 minute read ] For those of you on a different meridian, if that’s even a thing, this is our first real snow and it’s cold and dangerous and wonderful. Snow, like water, is a great equalizer. Unless you got spikes that is
[ 2 minute read ] Some parents are calling their babies theybies – and autocorrect – I feel you. Also, made up words have to be funny-on-purpose, asshat
I don’t know about you, but I need a little more space between songs, especially when it’s Tom Waits. I get swallowed whole listening to songs like Tom Traubert’s Blues and then comes Burma-Shave right on his heels. I’m telling you, Matilda, I need more than a few seconds between explosions
[ 2 minute read ] You can keep the iffy days when the forecast is scary but the morning sky’s a little slow on the uptake and I get dressed, one eye on the sky, and finally make it out the door still looking up. Soon as I get to work, everything changes and by three o’clock I’m stuck at Union Station still looking up, and there’s no line at Uncle Tetsu’s Cheesecake. Like yesterday. And fuck off spellcheck
[ 1 minute read ] I am uncertain about semi-colons, instapots, James Franco, kimchi, CBD oil, the Oxford comma, and sausages – but every time I read Gatsby – I am certain that hope is everything. Just careful the wagon you hitch it to
[ 2 minute read ] But since we’re on the subject I’d like a xylophone, leather knee-high boots from The Row, a Theory shift which sounds slightly quantum but is only a dress, and Portugal would be nice. Also I prefer platinum, and diamonds are my stone of choice, next to magic mushrooms of course
[ 2 minute read ] I was home sick and youtubed him for like eight hours yesterday. This morning, I’m still all puffy and gaggy and I just caught a glimpse of myself coughing in the bathroom mirror. The resemblance is uncanny