[the radio is sucking my butt today, by the way.]
Thing 1: Dear Chicago Sun Times and also the Chicago Tribune: Sammy Sosa no longer plays in Chicago. Get him off your front back SPORTS pages RIGHT THIS MINUTE. Did you now get the memo? Chicago doesn't give a fuck anymore. If I wanted to read about how Sammy's doing in Baltimore, I'd read the bloody Baltimore Sun. No love, Min
Thing 2: The juxtaposition of the Clash's "I'm So Bored With the USA" and Elvis Costello's "Angels Want To Wear My Red Shoes" in my current playlist never fails to crack me up.
Thing 3: I have recently discovered that an inordinate number of my conversations feature the phrase "You really don't want to know", which is generally code for "gay porn". For example: "So I was reading about how to build igloos at work today ..." "Wait, why were you reading about how to build igloos?" "You really don't want to know." "All right, then, continue on." It's sort of disturbing, to be honest.
Thing 4: Today's Top 5 list. Is Top 5 Fictional Characters You Identify With. And seems pretty straight forward. You know, the characters you saw on TV or read in a novel and thought, "Wow, man, that's me." Or something like that.
My list:1. Diana Campanella, from Cupid and Diana by Christina Bartolomeo. There's this scene where Diana talks about how her twenties were a series of one doomed-from-the-start relationship after another, and it was like standing constantly on the end of a pier, waving goodbye to ships. That line sold me on this woman for the rest of my life.
2. Willow Rosenberg, from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. But only early seasons Willow. Because, see, I wanted to be Faith, but back in high school, I was completely and totally and forever Willow. It made it hard to watch her on the show, but it made me love her, too.
3. Nicole Diver, from Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald. I spent a lot of time in my Faulkner, Hemingway and Fitzgerald class defending Nicole, and I stand by it - I love Nicole, because when I sat in a bathtub in Paris reading about her falling apart, I was falling apart myself, and I've loved her ever since.
4. Dan Rydell, from Sports Night. Because, you know, he's crazy and neurotic and insecure and needy, and I am too.
5. CJ Cregg, from West Wing. If I could grow up to be CJ, I could die happy.
What about y'all, kids?
Thing 2: The juxtaposition of the Clash's "I'm So Bored With the USA" and Elvis Costello's "Angels Want To Wear My Red Shoes" in my current playlist never fails to crack me up.
Thing 3: I have recently discovered that an inordinate number of my conversations feature the phrase "You really don't want to know", which is generally code for "gay porn". For example: "So I was reading about how to build igloos at work today ..." "Wait, why were you reading about how to build igloos?" "You really don't want to know." "All right, then, continue on." It's sort of disturbing, to be honest.
Thing 4: Today's Top 5 list. Is Top 5 Fictional Characters You Identify With. And seems pretty straight forward. You know, the characters you saw on TV or read in a novel and thought, "Wow, man, that's me." Or something like that.
My list:1. Diana Campanella, from Cupid and Diana by Christina Bartolomeo. There's this scene where Diana talks about how her twenties were a series of one doomed-from-the-start relationship after another, and it was like standing constantly on the end of a pier, waving goodbye to ships. That line sold me on this woman for the rest of my life.
2. Willow Rosenberg, from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. But only early seasons Willow. Because, see, I wanted to be Faith, but back in high school, I was completely and totally and forever Willow. It made it hard to watch her on the show, but it made me love her, too.
3. Nicole Diver, from Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald. I spent a lot of time in my Faulkner, Hemingway and Fitzgerald class defending Nicole, and I stand by it - I love Nicole, because when I sat in a bathtub in Paris reading about her falling apart, I was falling apart myself, and I've loved her ever since.
4. Dan Rydell, from Sports Night. Because, you know, he's crazy and neurotic and insecure and needy, and I am too.
5. CJ Cregg, from West Wing. If I could grow up to be CJ, I could die happy.
What about y'all, kids?