A couple of months ago (I’ve been sitting on this one due to time issues) Bitch Ph.D. reviewed a book on single motherhood called Promises I Can Keep. I haven’t read the book and can’t comment on that myself, but there were several things in her review that plucked the brainstrings. BPhD says:
The […]
Archive for June, 2007
Promises I Can Keep: Elaborating On An Old Review
Published June 30th, 2007 in Feminism, Obligation, Relationships and Sex. 33 CommentsSeveral of the ladies at work are enamored with the idea of living with a chef and perceive me to be more cultured than they if I eat something like hummus and pitas for lunch. Yeah, it’s pretty great, and yeah, I eat very well, but it also means I get tortured with lots […]
Friday Random Ten - The “We Will Be Back To The Internets Shortly” Edition
Published June 29th, 2007 in Music. 3 Comments1) Tom Waits - Bottom of the World
2) Social Distortion - Down on the World Again
3) Man Man - White Rice, Brown Heart
4) Teenage Jesus & the Jerks - Baby Doll
5) Bratmobile - Some Sculpture
6) Rakim - Punisher
7) Dead Milkmen - Peter Bazooka
8) Electrelane - Between the […]
Tonight Ethan regaled me with some Yeats and some Whitman, and I responded with Christina Rossetti and Lewis Carroll. Ethan found this poem by Rossetti particularly compelling. He asked me what it meant so I gave him a simple explanation. Offended, he asked, “Why would she want a dead guy?”
Come to me […]
I thought it would be cool to introduce Ethan to kid-friendly singable music even I can listen to, but I was wrong.
I also introduced him to poetry. All night, every night, I am assaulted with Human League, Tears for Fears, and Lord Alfred Tennyson.
I spent all of this weekend moving dear Chef out of his apartment and into our humble abode. The good news: his apartment building had an elevator. The bad news: The dumpsters were down four flights of stairs. The really bad news: I am the worst mover on the […]
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A Belated Father’s Day Post, For Protective Parents Of Every Species
Published June 19th, 2007 in Animals, Family and Suburbia. 1 CommentOn Sunday the cardinals starting squawking and haven’t let up since. The peep-peep, peep-peep doesn’t abate from dawn until well after dusk, and a pair of cardinals dance around the edge of the garage to attack anyone who comes near.
Yesterday Chef held a chair for me while I balanced on a strained ankle winding […]
Friday Random Ten - The “ZOMG, Teh Internets Exploded” Edition
Published June 14th, 2007 in Music. 4 Comments
1) Mott the Hoople - All The Young Dudes
2) David Pajo - Ten More Days
3) Bonnie “Prince” Billy - Cold & Wet
4) Team Dresch - She’s Crushing My Mind
5) Edith Frost - Dreamers
6) Tribe 8 - Think
7) Daniel Johnston - Desperate Man Blues
8) Nick Cave & the […]
If I had a dollar.
Rereading my posts so far at the new digs, I’ve realized I’m a shameless comma monkey. Editors get paid to fix that kind of thing, but since I’m broke the world will have to deal with my bad punctuation.
Last week I picked Ethan up after work and as soon as he buckled his carseat he dropped the bomb.
Ethan: Mom, did you know Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny don’t exist?
Me: Really?
Ethan: Yeah. Parents just take your Christmas list and buy you stuff off it and say it’s from Santa, […]
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