Archive for 'and then PJ grew up to be a rock star' Category
Riding the train with my brother
10 August 2011Each May, all of publishing jams itself into the Javits center for BEA, which ostensibly occurs so we can all have meetings/ do business/ promote books. With everyone under one roof it kind of becomes an unintentional research lab for any potential Christopher Guest-style mockumentaries on books that I hope to see released during my lifetime, [...]
Cause I’m saving all my love for you, F. Scott Fitzgerald
25 January 2010I look forward to going to the airport the way normal people look forward to leaving the airport. It’s a weird happy place, but it’s MY happy place, and this is a good thing because my job allows me to visit quite a few of them over the course of the year. As long as [...]
that’s my boy
2 November 2009My older brother leaves me a lot of excellent voicemails between the hours of 2 and 6am. The younger one almost never does; the only time that comes to mind was when he talked Ted Leo into calling me and singing “Me & Mia” into my cell voicemail, an amazing gift that I didn’t discover [...]
footloose and bug free
19 October 2009I can’t even explain to you how beautiful my life is post-Successful Visit By Exterminators Who Are Qualified For Their Jobs. Everything looks different to me now. Coming home to that apartment and not getting inhaled by evil bugs was like that scene in The Giver where the kid sees the color red for the [...]
Thanks for ruining my metaphor, compact fluorescent lighting technology
5 October 2009Good news, someone is maybe/ probably coming tomorrow to rid my apartment of everything that’s been living there that isn’t me or my turtles. It’s been a long and interesting tango with the bedbugs and I will not be sorry to see them go. Particularly since, as bedbugs are drawn out of hiding by your [...]
Always the last place you look
9 June 2009When I got an email today that said “Check out your brother on ESPN.com,” I assumed that they meant Bud and that ESPN had gotten ahold of the pictures of him doing the flyover at that UNC football game last year or something. That would have at least sort of made sense. And yet: Oh [...]
Aww, he looks even more like Charles Manson in black and white
4 May 2009New music video from Titus Andronicus! Apparently the peej had to lip synch to this song for a good 7 hours in a row in order to bang this out. I think it’s pretty convincing. I have no idea what the one shot of a baby on the dance floor is– that isn’t our niece, [...]
South by Southwest
23 March 2009Little Brother Peej and his band of lunatics played South By Southwest this weekend. I know this because my Google News Alerts went insane in the space of 3 days, and because I got this text message from Older Brother Bud: Yo. Our little bro plays South By Southwest today. We are each therefore cooler [...]
This is almost exactly like how I got an A in statistics last semester
9 February 2009The Airing of Grievances was reviewed in Entertainment Weekly’s 2/13 issue: Not since the Replacements raised a pint glass in the name of punk has a gang of hood rats so rousingly resurrected the legend of the American bar band. Grade: A. I’ve been making jokes all day about the continuing Stickles tradition of academic excellence [...]
So, something important happened yesterday
21 January 2009Other than that thing we spent all day crying about, I mean. PJ’s CD was re-released by XL!! You should all go buy it. Even those of you who bought it the first time. In case you think I’m biased towards the record, here are what some people who don’t have the same last name [...]