Boy, have I been down the last week. I can't get over missing her, missing her kid, missing home. I know it's not anything you ever get over, but I wish it would return to a tolerable level of ache, because I got shit to do ( Read more... )

Today is my birthday. I am very, very old, in case you were wondering.

I had the loveliest of weekends with my amazing and wonderful girlfriend ninafarina and Li'l' Duce, relaxing in a remote cabin up at Fenske Lake near the Boundary Waters. Loons called, and I mean that in a literal way. Gifted I was, with a couple of books -- one preparatory to our ( Read more... )

I'll keep it brief, since I know how boring you find these entries. Saturday, we took a trip to St. Cloud (which is a city north of here in a magical elf-filled valley where there are nothing but chain stores, and where everything is named after a saint) to visit my girlfriend's sister and scope out her lovely new house. Her neighbors are ( Read more... )

1. My awesome girlfriend ninafarina and I did some postering for her LitPac event (which you can learn about, donate to, or decide to attend here. It was loads of hot fun in the summertime, and it reminded me of my old punk rock days putting up flyers except (a) I wasn't drunk and (b) the police weren't chasing us. We also went to Costco, which has the ( Read more... )

Okay, one more bit of PR for my awesome girlfriend ninafarina: she has a new list up at McSweeney's!

Last week was busy. Writing busy, doctor-visit busy, meeting-with-editor busy, work busy, house-cleaning busy. But then Saturday arrived, and I went to the airport to pick up my awesome girlfriend ninafarina, and everything got swell. (As opposed to swollen, which unfortunately happened Sunday night, but we'll get to that ( Read more... )

It was an extremely lovely one, one of the best I've had in a long time. A recap was slow in coming because, as I say, I've been busy as a fact-checker at the National Review isn't lately. Any weekend spent with ninafarina and her kid is a good one, but this one just shone for me, I can't really say why. Perhaps it's because I missed her a lot and it did ( Read more... )

Busy, and likely to remain that way. For the foreseeable future. Still, here's a big-ass entry free of consequence.

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WHAT WE LEARNED FROM LAST WEEK'S POLL- The voting for most fearsome General Mills monster cereal was surprisingly close, but ultimately, you decided that punch-flavored werewolf Fruit Brute would emerge victorious from a ( Read more... )

It was spent in Minneapolis with my gal ninafarina, who I love like crazy. This probably shouldn't be the place or the time for me to mush out, because nobody likes that shit, but honestly, gang: she is beautiful and smart and honest and incredible and talented, and she's doing the most amazing job raising a fantastic kid on her own, and she's sexy and ( Read more... )

It was a lovely one as always, with the whole Twin Cities area blanketed in snow and my girl ninafarina and her Li'l' Duce both glad to see me. If there's a better feeling in the world than someone you love welcoming you back, I dunno what it is ( Read more... )