prematurely grey

Sometimes, to take a break from all my intellectual gyrations over the Mommy Wars, I like to spend a little time on Gawker. If you’re not familiar with Gawker, well, it’s the one of the ways I pretend to be cool. I can keep up on the latest NYC gossipnews by without having [...]

You probably won’t believe me but I’d just hit “publish” for the last post when John Aielli came on, begging for more pledging, and the live version “Once in a Lifetime” was playing underneath. He referred to playing it last week (heard it) but claimed that last week’s version wasn’t the best one. Today, he [...]

I keep trying to write this post as though it could possibly be amusing or interesting. I wrote a list of the things I wanted to write about SxSW and “Heavy Metal Parking Lot” is the prelude. But the truth is, it’s boring.
Why should you care about the fact that I spent opening night of [...]

Today was one of those days that should have been productive and ended up feeling like a toilet that won’t stop running–not really a problem, but clearly a waste. Somebody should fix that toilet, but since it’s not flooding the bathroom, who gives a shit?
I had all sorts of plans, big plans, to write something [...]

I’m beginning to wonder if I really did go to SXSW, if I actually met all those people, gave out all those t-shirts. Everything’s back to normal today–girls woke up in their own beds, were fed by their own parents, went to their school. I medaled in the grocery store biathlon, hitting both the Old [...]