December 30th, 2009 by Chris Nelson

File this under the who-asked-for-it category: Lilith Fair is back. You read that right. Eleven years after Sarah McLachlan folded her tent, she’s reopening it with another femme lesbian circus playing for peanuts.
Yes, of course the Indigo Girls will be performing.
I am secure enough in my ovaries to skip the whole tour, thank you very [...]

December 29th, 2009 by Chris Nelson

Hot on the heels of holiday overindulgence–the new secret to slimming down quickly: 
I always knew that I was wasting my time actually exercising. Finally, a diet for couch potatoes! Plus, all the healthy tanning you can stand for a mere $45/month.
Note that they don’t promise you’ll “lose” inches. You’ll “luze” them, instead. Also, the vacustep [...]

December 11th, 2009 by Chris Nelson

First, I have to blow my own horn. Before I moved out to Wyoming, the very thought of snakes terrified me. My only experience with them was at the “World of Darkness” exhibit at the Bronx Zoo. Then I came west for a one-month writer’s residency program. I immediately resolved not to hike up in the [...]

December 6th, 2009 by Chris Nelson

I’m all for the idea of governmental non-interference, but I seriously think that my student loan lendor (in this case the Federal Government) should’ve been legally required to advise me, as an English major, that I would have a greater chance in the future of being struck by lightning than I would of being able to [...]

December 4th, 2009 by Chris Nelson

I think I may have to go to Tea-hab. My effort to eliminate coffee was a smashing success, but now I’m hooked on tea. Not even caffeinated tea. Licorice, of all things, is my new herb of choice. In the general scheme of addictions, it’s a “good” one. But it still has its drawbacks.
According to the manufacturer of [...]