Slow Down

Of course! I’ve been writing furiously and working hard. Things are percolating. My boyfriend visited this weekend and I came down with something. My head feels huge and my thoughts are running away from me in a haze of sinus drugs. The skin underneath my right eye has been throbbing. [...]

You’re Untied Again

(photo credit: A portrait of the lovely Pioneer Valley in Massachusetts by the staggeringly accomplished Abby McDonald)
When I walked into my apartment today, I stopped at the mailboxes and got my mail. It was mostly stuff for Stu. Getting your law degree means that you’e on quite a few spam-lists.
A guy walked into [...]

Cow Cow Boogie

My Valentine’s Day Date

As my boyfriend put it, since he can’t make it to town for the holiday, “I figured I’d send you something from another hot renaissance man you appreciate.” It’s Criterion’s Paul Robeson: Portraits of the Artist box set, and it’s beautiful. Paul Robeson did not suck at anything, ever. All American football [...]

“Dying in the Al Gore Suite,” Nick Weidenfeld, The Fader Issue 31

He told her to take him to the Hotel Vanderbilt; the same hotel Al Gore holed himself up in November of 2000. Three years earlier, the Vice President had traveled to Nashville to make his concession speech, but when questions concerning the Florida ballot arose, Gore waited. And waited. He stayed in [...]

I don’t know much about this

This citation is in downtown Providence, close to Lupo’s Heartbreak Hotel (or whatever it’s called), and it’s sitting outside of a building that’s a general store now. I asked the owner about it and he said it’s always been there, and he thought it was a good addition to the front. There’s a [...]

Girl Crush: Thao Nguyen

So Super Bowl Sunday, maybe it was sacriledge, but my friends and I snuck out to see Thao Nguyen play with the Get Down Stay Down at the Middle East. First off, we got there in time so that we saw the fourth quarter, Eli Manning pulling a win out of the jaws of [...]

We Are Wizards

I had the pleasure of meeting the fantastic dudes working on this documentary, Josh Koury and crew, this summer while researching my article on Wizard Rock and Harry Potter fans. Josh and pals and myself were at a lot of the same shows: I’d be taking furious notes, and they’d be getting excellent [...]

Amazing

I got to sing Built To Spill’s “Big Dipper” while backed up by the Thermals. Life rules.
Unrelated: Pavement were sort of a weirdly personal band for me. Perhaps because I never got to see them live. They remained on my headphones. I interacted with them one-on-one. I liked them, but [...]