A few weeks ago, I started feeling a pain in my toe, which I knew to be a minor ingrown toenail. It came as somewhat of a surprise, since I threw away my pointy-toed, beautiful green mules. The ones with the buttons on them THAT I LOVED. On several occasions I had sewn and glued them back together with a range of adhesives, including glue dots, masking tape, ...

We get hooked to directors, teams, bands, people, places, etc. We give something a try and it connects and every few years the same names pop up and we invest time to hear them out. Eventually these people we admire either die, or stop producing things we like; the latter more often being the case. I bet it is rare that someone creates amazing results ...

I'm reading disappointing reviews of tomorrow's release of the new New Pornographers album, Challengers, and it's bumming me out but I don't care I'm still buying it and I'm going to love it. Yesterday (Sunday) I had to work again before going to a fantasy football draft, which I'm going in blind this year because I now completely understand that it's 95% luck, whereas before I foolishly ...

On Friday night, our A/C quit cooling. I was afraid that somehow we froze it up again, and turned it off to see if the thing would thaw out. We slept in the heat with the ceiling fans on high and woke up nice and damp (I know you're loving that mental picture). Tested it again... still hot. I considered calling the Landlord at that point, but we ...

On the phone: Grandma: I just can't stand doing yard work when it's hot outside. The heat just gets me. I sweat like a ... well, we used to say, 'like a nig**r on election day.' Me: Um, Grandma? Now we say 'pig.' Maybe Grandma should attend this funeral.