In which Brett returns a whole day early and I reveal to him that I have a boyfriend named Manhattan. Brett rolled in around midnight last night, woke me up and ravished me. Then we stayed up ’til three in the morning having A Big Talk about our trips and our life together. It’s so […]
Last night after I blogged, Steven, JoLynn, Aimee and I walked down to The View and had a couple of cocktails. The View’s a (gay) bar and not a club, so we sat on couches and watched music videos and were nearly able to talk. (Until the drag queen puppet bingo started, then we decided […]
Today, for the touristy portion of our time, we (Steven, Aimee, Greg and I) ate at the Blue Moon diner, visited JoLynn’s store (Tokens, in Hell’s Kitchen), and briefly wandered Times Square, which is such a sensory overload that it’s amost like not doing anything at all. There’s a point at which too much becomes […]
I didn’t expect to love New York. I thought it would be like a bigger, dirtier, shittier Chicago. I expected to hate it. But it’s not and I don’t: I fucking love it here. (Manhattan, at least.) If I didn’t have a husband, a mortgage, and two dogs, I’d move here next month. For real. […]
I’m in New York! Hah! I left work early yesterday at three, picked Aimee up, and we ran some errands. Then we drove to Des Moines, checked into the Holiday Inn across the street from the airport, went out for mediocre pizza, went back to the room, talk-talk-talk, passed out. We woke up at 4:45 […]
Forty-five minutes ago, at eleven-thirty in the morning, I went downstairs to suggest to Mr. Brett that we go to Paul’s Discount in Iowa City and buy him some clothes, and then maybe go eat something or see a movie. I had to wake him up from his position on the couch in front of […]
It’s rainy and overcast. I’ve been washing throw rugs, sweeping and dusting, tidying. I also de-cobwebbed, which is something of a gross job but important when you live in an old house in the country. Spiders fled my cleaning wrath. I found a toad under the coffee table and carried her outside. There is no […]
I keep buying music I used to have (or trying to buy music I used to have only to discover it’s out of print or so obscure it’s never even made it to CD – but that’s another post) and feeding it t0 my iPod. This album, Healing, I bought originally in high school. I […]
There was a meme going around in which you’d post ten MP3s that you were listening to a lot lately, regardless of genre. I was going to do it… two weeks ago. List ten songs that you are currently digging … it doesn’t matter what genre they are from, whether they have words, or even […]
If you’ve been dying to hear me sing, here’s your chance. Download Far Into The Night, a song recorded about ten years ago live at The Creamery in Keosauqua with the band Stormy Heaven, and engineered by Emo. Please note that I was drunk during this recording, and my monitor sucked. No, that’s not an […]
