Mark always used to talk about how everything would be all right if he were an ice cream vendor. But I note a couple of flaws in his logic: 1. The Music. You have to listen to the most obnoxious sound on the face of the earth: Essentially a giant, really loud music box directly ...

So on my final day, I was reminded today of yet another reason I don’t want to work at Blockbuster anymore: I constantly run into people I have no desire whatsoever to see. Like an ex. And her boyfriend. Who were being cutesy with each other in line. This was not Laura. Laura is THE ...

I just saw the Indigo Girls performing…on Headline News… I thought for a minute it was corporate synergy gone berserk, but they record for Epic, which is a Sony subsidiary. Anyone wanna explain this to me?

I really hate the exhaustion that school brings on. It’s one thing to work your ass off 40 hours a week, but I could never be a lawyer or an investment banker or a grad student or some other profession where you have to work ungodly hours and are expected to do fantastic work on ...

So I went and saw Patty Griffin at the Park West tonight, and she was excellent. The show was fairly low-key (she didn’t even have a drummer), which I normally don’t like, but I let her and Aimee Mann get away with because they’ve got such fucking gorgeous voices you actually want spare arrangements live. ...

So I was flipping through channels, and I came upon a Sheryl Crow concert on VH1, so naturally I watched it. The show immediately following, however, is what got my attention. It’s called the RedEye. It’s a like combination of Queer as Folk, Sex and the City, Beavis and Butt-Head, and some fairly powerful hallucinogens. ...

The following was sitting in my inbox when I got back from class: “To All Concerned: A contractor will be burning the prairie grasses surrounding the lagoon beginning at 1:00 p.m. today, April 17, 2002. This is an annual maintenance procedure administered by Facilities Management. While this procedure will produce some smoke, there is no ...

So I have to find two subletters for the summer and a person for the year, and I’m thinking back to last summer, when I lived with Rumya and Aparna, who subsided on nothing but weed and chili powder. I’m specifically thinking of the time I came home from working at Blockbuster on a friday ...

My mother has offered me $1000 to stop swearing. I think the main reason she offered me such a large chunk of change is she knows there’s no way in hell I’d ever take it. I have sworn like a drunken sailor who used to be a truck driver driving through New York City since ...

(note: if you don’t get the title, click here, scroll to the 4th song, listen to it, then click here and buy my album, for fuck’s sake. thank you.) The weather here is schitzophrenic. It’s 76 in Chicago right now, almost midnight, according to the little weather bug on my computer. It was eightysomething today, ...