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Monthly Archive August, 2008

here it is august.

It’s hay fever season, which means it’s Zyrtec-D season, which means it’s “go to Rite Aid and get your Zyrtec-D at the pharmacy counter and try to swipe your driver’s license and find that it’s still too old and doesn’t swipe so then the clerk has to enter your information and make you sign the [...]

hey a thing i wrote

Hi! My Nicole Reynolds piece is up, find it here. There’s a link at the end to a lil ol’ video that I shot of her at the farm. Nothing too high-budget, just a little song. Tonight is Cages at ModernFormations, which is where I’ll be if I’m not at home bellyachin’ about this toothache [...]

oh, and another for the hilarious letters dept.

From yesterday’s Post-Gazette: Sticking with rotary “If you are calling from a rotary phone, hang up and call back from a touch-tone phone.” This is what I was told by a woman’s voice on a machine, as if we all have the responsibility to abandon rotary phones and buy a touch-tone phone. Our responsibility is [...]

taking the “change” thing too far

The other day outside the public library, I saw a woman apparently changing the diaper of a child who looked to be much too old to have a diaper changed at all, much less in the middle of a patch of grass outside in the city with lots of people walking by. The kid wasn’t, [...]

killin’ it

First order of business: Burndowns article in this week’s paper now online. Go check it. I guess I did an okay job of contextualizing the band musically in this one. In my Nicole Reynolds piece I basically do very little do describe her music, I think. I guess my nature is more that of a [...]

weekend accomplishments

My weekend, you say? Well. Uhhh, I didn’t do much of anything Friday night. Then I cleaned out my kitchen cupboards and organized things and put the bulk stuff that was in flimsy bags into tupperware containers and labeled them. Ran a little, went show-hopping at the BBT (Weird Paul!) and Howler’s. Sunday, visited the [...]