Part One – I just can’t listen to Elliott Smith the way I used to. It was spring break last week [EDIT: last week –ish] for Adam and Chelsea and they drove all the way down from Madison, WI to Louisville to waste it with me. They arrived just after I got home from work […]
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laurapalooza and the IBJ
December 13th marked the 25th annual celebration of “Laurapalooza.” I work with two Lauras, and one of them—whom, for clarity’s sake, we usually refer to as “LZ“— hates having her birthday so close to Christmas, so she makes up for it by throwing a ginormous party every year. Her brother has a swanky downtown loft […]
Read more...august sixteenth
The first person I met whose birthday was August 16th was my best friend from kindergarten, Tessa. Shortly after, my cousin Emily was born on August 16 in 1989. It was easy for me to remember Emily’s birthday because of Tessa, and then when I met Seth—also born on August 16—it was easy to remember […]
Read more...back to the fuschia
If you’ve ever been to Bardstown Road after 9pm, you’ve probably seen the Pool Party Express. It’s an old, hollowed out fire truck that carries drunk people up and down the street, playing loud music, like a parade float or an open-air party bus. Counter-intuitively, there is no water involved. Kari booked the PPE for […]
Read more...a pirate looks at 24
Intellectually, I can accept that I’m not almost 30. However, I can feel it looming. Every year seems to go by faster, so logically it’s only a few more weeks before I’m over the hill. That said, here is an incomplete list of things I’d like to accomplish before I turn 30, in no particular […]
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