Archive for January, 2006
Aging makes you more stupider.
Not that, at the age of thirty-six, I’m suddenly leaning on a cane and reminiscing about the old days when I used to wear black rubber bracelets and multi-layered skirts in different plaid prints, but I’m definitely noticing some changes in my body and my brain with every year I add to my age. The [...]
Read More..>>Hi, my name is Erin…
…and I’m addicted to Dancing with the Stars. I KNOW. It’s a problem. It’s a real problem. Do you know that I was talking to my mother this morning and she said, “Don’t forget to watch Dancing with the Stars tonight!” And instead of going, “Right, Mom, whatever. Dancing with the Stars. What a load [...]
Read More..>>Is this really necessary?
You know, there are days when I think that life just isn’t worth living. Days when I want to crawl out of bed and stick my head in the oven and then light a match because I couldn’t be dead soon enough. And then there are days like today when I read something like this [...]
Read More..>>I think his brain received more than just a few little knocks…
God, I love the Onion. My friend Harry just sent that link to me and I almost inhaled water up my nostril, I was laughing so hard. I don’t have a problem with James Frey, really, except I think he’s kind of…lame. I mean, as Pamie rightly commented, Augusten Burroughs was criticized for also fibbing [...]
Read More..>>Leif, Leif, Leif
Don’t you know the drugs don’t work? Here’s what I don’t understand: the guy hasn’t made an album in years, he looks like he slept in the bottom bunk of a trailer filled with elephant dung, he’s a social pariah, and yet he’s still able to somehow afford drugs? I make a decent living, have [...]
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