I was stuck in a loop today after the game. “Hope is not lost.” That’s what she said. The Japanese checkout girl at Fiesta meant it too—Japan is still in the cup, and tomorrow Mexico (my first and only remaining hope, now that the US has been eliminated by Ghana) will face Argentina, a team [...]

So I came up with a new internet caper idea. Here’s what I’m going to do when I finish one final “I swear I’m only proofreading” edit of my book. #1: I’m going to self-publish a thousand copies of my book and list them on Amazon, hopefully with funds from my potential sponsor. #2 I [...]

This commercial really freaks me out and stimulates my senses at the same time. I have no real words for it. I don’t have a cat. But if I did, I’m not sure I’d feed it Friskies based on this commercial. Or maybe I would. Feel free to debate it in the comments. Or at [...]

El Jeepo is sick. Or at least not feeling well. The speedometer on my 1996 Jeep Cherokee (that has two wheel drive) decided to quit working two weeks ago. At first, the needle danced a bit, hovering plus or minus ten around my general speed, a strange little lambada that told me approximately how fast [...]

Point is, the girl in the commercial had really cool hair. And my roommate is writing a book about racial identity and hair, and she’s always complaining about what few styling options she has tried. So I decided that Libby and the ‘Fro Hawk should meet.

April will be Adri Blogging Month. I’m going to do my best to get back in the habit of blogging. So we’ll start in March (to show how much I mean it) and we’ll start with story that’s rather inappropriate for the internet (hello, future employers and students, I promise everything mentioned is legal and [...]

The 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic Games (I won’t even tell you how long I debated the order of those words) began yesterday to my excitement. What was not to love about the Opening Ceremonies (I feel like everything should be capitalized). Shane Koyczan represented Slam Poetry and awesomeness, Bryan Adams represented… something, and the computer-generated [...]

I have been friends with a girl for years. Lately my friend has been comparing me with other people and saying they’re her closest friend. I’m not jealous of other people it’s just that she keeps mentioning this all the time. She also makes me feel overweight and is extremely competitive at work. We have [...]

All this talk of new media, and instead I give you a poem. Investment Advice I think, given the detrimental state of it all, that our salvation, as a people and species, lies in the restorative power of skimmed milk. We all know that water will fail us— it is, after all, susceptible to the [...]

So, for Christmas I got a Flip Cam (so cool) and a Palm Pixi. In other words, I am technologically fashionable and rockin some heavy equipment. This means the blog is about to get much more interesting. Just a heads up. This shit is going to get real. And by “real” I mean “technologically badass.” [...]

Two Steelers fans found themselves thousands of miles away from home. In fact, both were in Texas during what may or may not have been the most significant game of the season for Pittsburgh. What did they do? Brad sent me a text message at 1:46PM yesterday from the Dallas airport: “do you know the [...]

Thanksgiving, for me, is about the little thank yous, the ones that make you smile and make you realize that no matter how crap things can get sometimes, people still love each other enough to break bread and say thanks. This can never be a bad thing. Even if we’ve somehow made shopping a part [...]

A few weeks ago I invited some friends over for game night. No one wanted to play Trivial Pursuit, Cranium seemed trite and overdone, and the excitement over Electronic Cathphrase wore out soon enough. What to do? Jamie Bono suggested Pictionary. Well, I offered, I have a clipboard, some paper, and a permanent marker. But [...]

I wanted to share a podcast of me reading from my manuscript thesis (tentatively titled La Violencia) available at Hot Metal Bridge (the University of Pittsburgh’s graduate literary journal). I apologize for the podcast editor’s crummy job (she accidentally overlaid some audio during the introduction); she should be reprimanded—or flogged. People take these things seriously [...]

Learning to watch the Steelers has been an exercise in learning to watch football. Not that I didn’t know how to watch football—but when you are watching a specific team (and I know how “duh” this is), it means learning the ins and outs of all the rules. Even the little ones. Most of the [...]