I am a complete sucker for punishment. I also cannot control myself when it comes to checking up on things. Like anything in the oven. Like old boyfriends via Google. I guess that last one is more like stalking, but you get the idea.
And so it was last night that after two glasses of wine [...]
Category Archives: stuff that's wrong with me
A Very Special Episode: Sweets Surrender, The Ocho
08.06.08 –
The Latest Bloomer
07.27.08 –
In 1985, I called my best friend Maureen in a desperate flurry of rotary numbers. I wanted to be the first to tell her. Had she heard it? At first, silence. “Heard what?” she asked. Heard Madonna’s awesome new song? I said with considerable pubescent sass. “No,” she said. “How does it go?” I hummed [...]
More than a feeling
07.23.08 –
I’m in Boston. Safe and not at all sound. I haven’t seen much of the city, but am decidedly amused by the local fascination with a firefighter on disability who got caught flexing his beef in a bodybuilding competition. I’ve seen the footage – I’m pretty sure it’s on a 24-hour loop – and let [...]