Three years ago this week, I was fretting over this fellow I knew from my old job. We'd been emailing back and forth with increasing frequency over the previous weeks. Christmas eve, he sent me one more. A close friend of his, someone he knew his whole life had just died that day. The man's wife had died only a month earlier. He was obviously ( Read more... )

We're moving to Clintonville.

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This weekend I accompanied Jeff to a show down in Louisville, Kentucky. He played a benefit for a woman's shelter at the Pour Haus. I had food poisoning the whole first day, which made driving pretty uncomfortable. Luckily, I was feeling better the next day. As planned, we spent a couple hours at the Cave Hill National cemetery, final resting ( Read more... )

"Essentially all I've wanted this to be is a journal of a life, because I think that sort of thing is worth recording." - Harvey Pekar

Going to see this tonight.

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