Myth Me Musings (22): Meet The Jespersens

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Thursday night I spent a couple hours at Zoe’s house, chatting and trying to put my brain in some semblance of order when my mom called to tell me that the viewing was not at the “normal funeral home, it’s at the other one.” And the word “normal” in that instance made complete sense to [...]

Snippets of backstage conversation

After the show tonight, I was talking to one of the other people in the show, who asked me “how long ago did your cousin die?” I said, “Wednesday, the funeral was yesterday.”
She said, “oh my god, just like you said.”
I don’t know why it is so hard for people sometimes to take what I [...]

Radio All-Stars: Tonight!

I realized that I hadn’t put out a blurb that I’m performing at Radio All-Stars tonight.
8pm, Bryant Lake Bowl
So, if you read this, be there.
If you can’t, after the jump the piece I’m doing tonight.
There’s a lot of things to be written about this weekend, but not right now.  Soon.

Crying in Unexpected Places

I went to the gas station to get smokes, and asked if they had any specials on Camels.  They didn’t, but I spied a two-for-one package of another brand in the back.  I said, “Give me the two-for-one Parliaments”, and started crying.
Parliament is my cousin’s last name.
It’s a cruel, cruel world sometimes.

Thank you again, readers.

For the second month in a row, this blog has had over 1,000 hits. 
Thank you.
Da Monkey

Myth Musings (21): A death in the family

Some more information has come out on the accident that my cousin was killed in this morning, hitting the evening news and creating a subsequent comment thread.  Apparently, there are a lot of people praying for us right now.  I’ve never been one to tell people I know that I’m praying for them, let alone [...]

Limit? has been reached.

What? no post for three days?  Why yes.  I was writing on Monday night when my laptop decided to crap out.  Completely dead.  They were able to recover the data, and I’m currently writing from my brand new laptop.  That was an expense I hadn’t counted on, which pretty much put me over the edge.
And [...]

From the bottom of the barrel…

Greatness can emerge.
This article brought great comfort this morning.  I’m at a point right now where I can’t remember a time when I’ve been much lower.  I just feel…stuck.  A rat in a maze trying to get to the cheese at the end but faces a dead end each way I turn.  I keep telling [...]

Funny of the day

From a 1995 article: the Internet will never catch on.
Full text after the jump, in case the link ever goes away.

Hitting hard, unexpectedly

I was reading through stories on the Strib site yeterday, and came across this one, about the little girl who was disembowled in the pool last summer, and died a couple days ago.  I think I actually shed a tear.  I’m not sure this story got to me so much.  First sad, which quickly turned [...]