So It Goes

The Hallmark Channel has an online quiz you can take to see...

Mar 4th

“After one cold night, Mary James is grateful for the...”
— WXII takes a hard-hitting look...

Mar 3rd

I just got an email from a race I ran last summer telling me...

Mar 3rd

“It’s not you that goes through life. It’s life...”
— From the story written in the...

Mar 3rd

Sixteen years later and this Rolling Stone cover is still...

Mar 3rd

“Most of our spines zigzag heinously and in fact you can go...”
— Robyn Hitchcock, from Jonathan...

Mar 3rd

How wrong you are Coral Springs Charter High School. ...

Mar 3rd

Ah, “The Ex” knife holder, from the same people...

Mar 3rd

No I don’t have a problem, nor do I appreciate what...

Mar 3rd

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Here’s wishing a spider-filled 56th birthday to one Robyn Hitchcock.* This song,...

Mar 3rd

“Just keep writing it all down and seek audiences...

Mar 2nd

My Last.Fm Weekly Top 5

Mar 2nd

My 20,000th song on last.fm. Obviously this will be noted...

Mar 2nd

A collection of unseen Beatles & Stones pics has been...

Mar 2nd

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I’m embarrassed that I still know all of the words to this. Even the spoken intro. “You...

Feb 27th

Feb 27th

I’m heading to my parents’ house this weekend,...

Feb 27th

Unite and take over! Or at the very least, cram some Juicy...

Feb 27th

DEAR DESIGNERS: I HAVE SOME TOTALLY...

T.G.I. Futura Ennui Ivanhoe! Wingdings and Beer Chum Sooo Goth Filet O’ Bold Scat Gotti...

Feb 27th

Oh, Morrissey. At this point, I’m almost convinced...

Feb 26th

Me: Um, Amazon just sent me a "recommended product", WATCHMEN Night Owl branded coffee. The hell?
Andrew: Sweet, that would go well with my Comedian toaster oven and my doomed decadent society.

Feb 26th

I will never get tired of these. God bless you, Helvetica.

Feb 26th

“People find me enormously irritating. If you don’t...”
— Morrissey

Feb 26th

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Turn the other cheek is really showing class But I really think it’s sexy when he kicks...

Feb 26th

It begins. From the product description: “It’s...

Feb 26th

“Like any northern girl, Maureen ensnared her man the...”
— from Peter Brown’s The...

Feb 26th

If it were possible to love this any more, I would probably...

Feb 26th

The sun, red and enormous, began to rise in the eastern sky....

Feb 26th

“Part of me suspects that I’m a loser and the other...”
— John Lennon

Feb 26th

—via Threadless.

Feb 26th

“If somebody says ‘I love you’ to me, I feel as...”
— Kurt Vonnegut

Feb 26th

—via Toothpaste For Dinner.

Feb 25th

—via Natalie Dee.

Feb 25th

My sister weighed in with her suggestion for my Lenten...

Feb 25th

GPOYW: In which the author says Hey I just realized...

Feb 25th

I just pulled a jacket out of the back of the closet and...

Feb 24th

I like my meals like my men: golden brown and hastily...

Feb 24th

“I don’t know why people ever actually introduce songs...”
— Robyn Hitchcock, introducing...

Feb 24th

Sometimes, I get really impressed with my own brain and...

Feb 24th

I would wear this Every. Damn. Day.

Feb 24th

Last night I spent four hours shoving Pop Tarts into my face, washing them down with Sunkist, and...

Feb 23rd

“First of all, it would mean a great deal to me. It would be...”
— —Mickey Rourke, on what...

Feb 23rd

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-2-22)

Feb 23rd

This picture was taken forty-five years ago today on the...

Feb 22nd

I have a story to finish, two pitches to write, eight miles...

Feb 20th

Writer’s Block, meet Deadline. Deadline, this is...

Feb 20th

I’m procrastinating harder than Aesop’s grasshopper so I decided to sift through my...

Feb 19th

And I love you back, festively colored Baboon Ass.

Feb 19th

This goes out to everyone I just saw downstairs at the...

Feb 18th

I want need MUST HAVE THIS T-SHIRT or my lungs will collapse...

Feb 18th

I would like to thank the Academy for th—oh shit,...

Feb 18th

“You set up your life, you set up your friends, but you know...”
— Robyn Hitchcock, in Hanspeter...

Feb 18th

I’ve done nothing so far today but drink four Diet...

Feb 18th

If my ribcage were big enough to accommodate this in a...

Feb 18th

Feb 18th

I wouldn’t eat anything that came out of Dr....

Feb 18th

—via Paul and Storm

Feb 15th

That’s it son, taunt the T. Rex. His tiny arms...

Feb 15th

Me: I'm so ready to move to England. I just need to find a British guy to marry.
Elizabeth: Do you know any British guys?
Me: No.
Elizabeth: What about that musician you go on about?
Me: Married.
Elizabeth: Hugh Laurie?
Me: Married.
Elizabeth: Paul McCartney?
Me: Sadly, he's started to look exactly like my grandmother.
D-Hamm: JESSE McCARTNEY!! I mean, I think he's legal now and--
Me: Not British.
D-Hamm: Oh. I got nothin' then.

Feb 15th

How do you work this thing? That’s what I want to...

Feb 14th

Yeah. I valentined myself. WHAT OF IT?

Feb 14th

kayfabe:thumbwrestlinginbaltimore:kapi

Feb 14th

If I was a hairless spinster/Covered in festering boils Would you still make love to me/Or would...

Feb 14th

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Said the dentures to the peach Said the tide of filth to the bleach Said the spike to the tomato ...

Feb 14th

“When I was very small I was going to be a doctor. But...

Feb 13th

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-2-8)

Feb 9th

Near Upton Park, East London.

Feb 9th

All packed. Yes, my Cardinals hat is that dirty. Yes,...

Feb 7th

Let’s not ruin this with words.

Feb 7th

Having a pet is so rewarding, especially the...

Feb 6th

The Internets. I fear them.

Feb 6th

Things I Should Be Doing: Packing Making Copies of My...

Feb 6th

“I have an amazing mnemonic device by which I have now...”
— Michael Scott, addressing the...

Feb 6th

One day, 20 hours, 20 minutes…

Feb 6th

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One of the surest signs the relationship is over is when you have to toss his toothbrush.  Which I...

Feb 5th

OK, I’ve been tagged more times than a blind kid at recess, so I may as well do this 25...

Feb 5th

Dear Anonymous, Your rapier-sharp criticism of my writing...

Feb 5th

leitch: ONE FOOT DOWN! ONE FOOT DOWN! (It’s starting to...

Feb 4th

Ain’t that the damn truth.  Sigh. —via Indexed....

Feb 4th

For GPOYW, I present the brightest spot of Super Bowl...

Feb 4th

Me, unshowered, drinking my fourth Diet Coke and wearing...

Feb 4th

“The coach said ‘Do you know the three point...”
— Arizona Cardinals DT Darnell...

Feb 3rd

4 days, 12 hours, 5 minutes…

Feb 3rd

Like, obvi! [hair flip]

Feb 3rd

And America is also invited to curl into the fetal position...

Feb 3rd

What’s the word I’m looking...

Feb 3rd

Buddy Holly and Waylon Jennings, January 1959. Fifty years...

Feb 3rd

At dinner the other night (a giant, bacon swaddled burger,...

Feb 2nd

I am both horrified and delighted by this.  It’s the...

Feb 2nd

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No, I don’t want to talk about it.

Feb 2nd

Yes. I did. And it’s totally authentic, save for the...

Feb 1st

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-2-1)

Feb 1st

6 days, 18 hours, 42 minutes…

Feb 1st