- I miss my girlfriend. A lot. Boy, she's swell. She's down in Texas this week (city of Austin, let me hear ya) at a special event-like happening for the magazine that employs her, so Austinites, give a holla. If you see her on the street, you'll know her 'cause she sweet, shout out and let her know that her boy loves her so. Unh ( Read more... )

This past weekend, as you know from my relentless whoring of the thing, Pindeldyboz, the top-shelf literary magazine for which my always-dazzling girlfriend ninafarina is the web editor, put on a reading at the Turf Club in St. Paul, MN, rapidly becoming one of my favorite towns in the U.S. of Amerikey. Through the kind and utterly professional ( Read more... )

After a lovely evening at the ballpark with soon-to-be Chicagoans janehex and brianchurch, I headed up to the Twin Cities to spend some time with my always-amazing girlfriend ninafarina and her Li’l’ Duce. Among other things, we went to the Minnesota State Fair. Some highlights ( Read more... )

1. My birthday is coming up, and I'm thinking about getting her a present ( Read more... )

1. Li'l' Duce is two. I say this without malice: just, she's two. Which means that she's now capable of even more intense depths of sweetness (for instance, when she demanded a hug from her car seat and then made a heartbreaking 'disappointed' face when I told her I couldn't give her a hug until we stopped; or when she starts using her brand ( Read more... )

Okay, so, my weekend. And a long one it was, albeit also largely a pleasant one ( Read more... )

Spent most of the weekend up in St. Paul, visiting my gal ninafarina. I haven't seen her since our trip to SF for the Pindeldyboz reading and janehex and brianchurch's wedding, and as I may have mentioned, she's the best gal in the world, so I've been missing her, and was all primed for a lovely visit. Little did I suspect that my trip, save for my ridiculous amount of good ( Read more... )

- Sometimes, thaitea and I go to the Golden Nugget down the street for breakfast. It's always a pleasant experience, but my favorite part is that they have these little flip cards on the table. Some are pretty straightforward -- describing the specials, featuring new menu items, and so on. But there's one that boasts about their homemade pancakes (no ( Read more... )

- A series of judges have told the G.O.P. Congress to go get fucked and stay the hell out of Terry Schiavo's life (and death ( Read more... )

And now: The Weekend.

As you may know if you have nothing better to do than keep up with the minutiae of my ridiculous life, Saturday was my gal ninafarina’s birthday. It was also the day of the 50th annual Chicago St. Patrick’s Day parade (before that, the city celebrated Punch Out A Mick Day on the same date). How could these two incredible events ( Read more... )