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24 years ago today 21 Dec 2012 | 07:37 pm
I’d finished my classes for the semester and my dad had come to pick me up from college for the holiday break. 1988 had been an emotional roller coaster for our family. We’d lost four family friends i...
What the hell do gay people have to be proud of? 18 Jun 2012 | 09:41 pm
We’re proud because despite relentless persecution everywhere we turn—when organized religion viciously attacks and censures and vilifies us in the name of selective morality, when our families disown...
It’s been 21 years since I last barfed 19 Apr 2012 | 01:26 am
Picture it: Cedar Rapids. 1991. I’d finished college and moved home with my parents that December and immediately got involved (natch) in the local theater community. By April I’d already done two sh...
Punishable writing felonies 10 Apr 2012 | 01:26 am
Ignorant redundancies $25 dollars • ATM machine • 6:00 p.m. at night Meaningless quotation marks “The kitchen experts!” • Our “famous” apple pie Punctuation gluttony Important!!!!! • Why pay more th...
23 years ago today 22 Dec 2011 | 03:00 am
I’d finished my classes for the semester and my dad had come to pick me up from college for the holiday break. 1988 had been an emotional roller coaster for our family. We’d lost four family friends i...
Nobody thought it would be one of the kids 4 Nov 2011 | 02:58 am
Nobody probably thought the Boat Crew would last this long, actually. When four young couples from the same Cedar Rapids Lutheran church rented a houseboat and sailed up and down the Mississippi Rive...
September 27 Sep 2011 | 10:45 am
Like Picasso, Matisse, Pollock and a host of iconic 20th century painters, Gerhard Richter has developed a signature visual vocabulary of sometimes photorealistic images obscured to varying degrees in...
Healthcare encapsulated 13 Sep 2011 | 08:42 am
She was petite, in blue dress pants and a conservative blouse with a small gym bag over her shoulder. I probably wouldn’t even have noticed her when I arrived at the pharmacy counter and stood the cus...
Lists of things 16 Jul 2011 | 09:23 am
Things I found while packing for an office move 1. A box of teabags that expired before I started working here five years ago. 2. Enough dust to knit a cowl-knit sweater. 3. My diploma from corporate-...
What the hell do gay people have to be proud of? 24 Jun 2011 | 01:46 am
We’re proud because despite relentless persecution everywhere we turn—when organized religion viciously attacks and censures and vilifies us in the name of selective morality, when our families disown...
