For all of my public candor and truth-excavatin’, there are areas I will not touch. One of them, no pun intended, is sex. Another, believe it or not, is relationships. I am a champion of privacy, wherever possible, and also a big, fat coward: I’m loathe to pull a Truman Capote and end up like [...]
relationships
Between coming off a lollapalooza of a trip and the crapload of work staring me in the face upon my return, I’ve been kind of overwhelmed and under-motivated. Happens. But in a twin stroke of magic from the Serendipity Fairy, I got an infusion of inspiration on a trip to Ojai visiting a lady-homey, and [...]
“Nah. I want to watch on the downstairs TV. It’s closer to the beer.” , response to the question, “Why don’t you watch The Simpsons upstairs with me?” posed by Bonnie Gillespie to her then-boyfriend of six months
My friend, Mary Ellen, and I go way back to my advertising days; she was one of the first people I met when I moved back to Chicago from New York, and I still make fun of how relentlessly and Midwesternly cheerful she was when she poked her head into my office for the first [...]
“So…you still have that blog?” “Uh-huh.” “Yeah? How often do you post to it?” “I try to post twice a day. One post, one quotation. But today I didn’t post.” “How come?” “Uhhh…. Well, my boyfriend just got back from five days out of town.” Beat. Beat. Beat. “We have some, um, catching up to [...]
“i dont want any of those ill-gotten girls. im getting old. i think im ready for true love now, please.” , Tony Pierce, in a conversation with George W. Bush, as transcribed on busblog
