1. The catering! The catering! What is the point of sending me an email on Friday that I don’t receive until the catering office closes telling me the payment hasn’t been received for the catering that is supposed to arrive at 8:00 am on Saturday? I submitted all the paperwork weeks ago, the catering has [...]

I have been organizing a conference with my friend Lindsay for the past few months. It is now, suddenly happening this weekend! I am stressed the fuck out about this. If you lived in Los Angeles, I would say “come to my conference!” But since most of my blog readership resides in Canadialand, all I [...]

Dear the Fire Alarm, Look, I am so glad that you work. Because knowing that you work gives me the reassurance that, should my apartment catch fire in the next month or so before I move, I will at least be awake, making it a lot easier to escape, so hopefully I will not die [...]

1. try to convince me that Elvis “invented rock and roll,” and that I should believe you because you read it in a Rolling Stone history of rock. He didn’t. He popularized it, and embodied it in North American culture, and was able to bring the genre to a wide audience, but to say that [...]

on libraries Where is the book thatI recalled three weeks ago?Where is it? Where? Where? on public transportation Where is the bus thatShould have come an hour ago?Where is it? Where? Where?