April 2011
32 posts
“Don’t let this club membership change you, John. Stay ornery, stay mean. We need...”
– Billy Joel, on inducting John Mellencamp into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, 10 March 2008.
I’ve always been a big fan of both Mr. Johnny John Cougar Mellencamp Cougar John-John Jingleheimer Schmidt’s music, and politics. Even through the name changes.
(Mr. Joel, however…...
I'm participating in the A to Z Blogging Challenge
I know I don’t regularly post here, except for when I upload a picture to my Flickr account and it auto-posts here, but I’ve decided to participate in the A to Z Blogging Challenge, starting tomorrow.
If you don’t like clicking links, what that means is that I’ll be posting at least one thing here, every day except Sunday, for the entire month of April 2011, and each post...
March 2011
16 posts
Yesterday morning at the coffee stand
[The barista is a woman, in her early 20s, with dark red hair and a quick, dry wit. I will call her Amber because for the longest time I thought that’s what her name was. It isn’t. I approach the stand, looking for my usual cup of coffee and some conversation.]
!Amber: So how are you enjoying your new bag?
Me: Oh, I love it! And I got my new laptop yesterday, too, so it’s...
