Big Changes + TV Icons

We haven’t seen each other in a while, eh? You’d still recognize me, I look the same– plus a new piercing (which we can talk about later, thanks) and minus a pant size or so.  How and why? Well… You know how if you live in America and/or use the internet and/or watch TV you [...]

Card Games + A Potentially Glorious Retirement Plan

I learned how to play Gin Rummy! The other day out on my lawn, one of those beautiful days when it was warm and sunny but breezy and dry, I sat on my lawn with the boy down the street and we taught ourselves to play Gin Rummy. It was a Thursday, and since KBoyne [...]

Yo Hiltons, I’mma Let You Finish…

… But the Self-Proclaimed St. Louis Socialites are the Best Socialites OF ALL TIME. We’ve been AWOL since the A-List Party, eh? We’re busy and we’re sorry. And some of us are still reeling from the crazy fame-orgy that was the A-List…? So probably not that part. These socialites are too together for fainting from [...]

The Importance of Being Around + Not Actually Having Children

So I sort of had the best 4th of July weekend ever. I know, I KNOW! We’ve all finally gotten past all the build-up and red, white and blue-ness of Independence Day. We had a week and a half to recover. We’re on to the next holiday. Move ON, Madelyn. But I promise the decision [...]

Club Memberships + A Mildly Manic Buying Spree

My month of June was spent indoors.¹ The pretense of the gross imbalance in my Inside/Outside ratio is as follows: (1)disdain for temperatures near 100° Fahrenheit  (2)tendency to burn despite sunblock (3)general lack of interest in humidity. Essentially, I am not fit for summer in Saint Louis. If she’s not filling her free time with normal [...]

Something Amiss

Note: In the past few weeks, I have seemed to drop off the face of the earth (and this blog). Unless “off the face of the earth” is eerily similar to what I’ve known as on the face of the earth– that is, in and around Belleville, St. Louis, and my basement– I have not [...]

Road Trip + Clusterfuck

I have not gone on vacation in quite some time. I’ve been hanging in St. Louis day in, day out for weeks, months, years, without going anywhere that can’t be gotten to from I-64, 70, or 255. Fer seriuzzzzzzzzz. And much as I love me some Es Tee El, I keep seeing the same places [...]

Braingasms + An Open Letter to Supermarket Small-talkers

You know how there are certain rules we are supposed to adhere to when out in public or at large gatherings of people? It’s pretty safe to say I consider those rules negotiable. My philosophy is being inappropriate is always in style– though of course there are limits, mine are ever-widening. What I’m saying is [...]