Archive for 'The Gene Pool' Category
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 [...]
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 [...]
So This Is Christmas: 2008
5 January 2009Somewhere along the line, Christmas in my family became less about Jesus and presents and more about drinking and gambling. I’m not complaining–in order to do that I would have to claim to have nothing to do with the shift and that would never hold up in court–as Christmas has become second only to family [...]
Call the waaaaaambulance
16 December 2008Here’s a list of things that have made me cry in the last 36 hours: 1. That effing debeers commercial with old people holding hands. Old people holding hands just KILLS me. On Valentine’s Day this year, the google image was old people holding hands and I had to stop googling things until the 15th [...]
“This next song is eight minutes long, if you were thinking about having a smoke, now would be a good time.”
4 December 2008Review of PJ’s LA show. Older Brother Bud is beyond pumped for his shout out, so read closely! Also, the Pitchfork Readers Poll is up. If you’re anything like me, then you’ve been waiting for a chance to vote for Titus Andronicus and Beyonce in one survey, so get to it. ETA: Aww, the XL [...]
kids today
2 December 2008My dad recently quit being a lawyer and went back to teaching at a Catholic school, which is what he did Before I Was Born/ Before Anything Really Mattered, Anyway. Four months ago, my father’s work day consisted of kicking around an office with a group of lawyers he’s known for upwards of 30 years [...]
Once bitten…
13 November 2008So, so many awesome things happened on monday night that I am only just now finding out about. For one: I couldn’t go to PJ’s show, and I assumed when I saw the next morning that he had called me after midnight just to say how much he loved me and that he wished I [...]
Big Business
30 October 2008Yay Patrick!
Love.
20 October 2008You know how there’s that theory in evolutionary genetics that the reason offspring look like their families is so you can keep track of which ones belong to you, and it makes you want to take care of them more? That’s how I feel about this picture. Even if Meg didn’t [...]
My family will have used up all of the irish names by the time I get around to assigning one to a person, anyway
15 October 2008A few years ago Maggie tried to convince our book club that it wouldn’t be too hard to raise a child at our age. Her general thesis, which none of us bought, was that having an infant at that time, when none of us had particularly important or stressful jobs, would be easier than it [...]