I am from the middle of fucking Iowa.

I present: The RTC Muxtape

rtc: All things considered, I’ve never really considered myself too resistant to change, but it...

Jul 1st

Text conversation with my displaced...

Me: Who is cooking for you tonight? Betty? Ms. Stoufer?
CRa: Mama Cozi is making me a philly cheese steak sandwich. Yum.
Me: Tell that bitch I can cook better than her.

Jun 27th

jessicagoldharalson: “Cashew, a 14 year old Labrador...

Jun 26th

Sometimes it comes easy. Sometimes its a...

This painting and I have been fighting all day.  Especially because I’m trying to multitask...

Jun 25th

Sorting through old photos and came across my very own...

Jun 25th

Watch

My favorite little goofy singer, Brett Dennen, to brighten your morning: i was thrown before the...

Jun 25th

I have some sucking up to do..

Ooops I just sent a mean email,  but mean in a kind of funny way like the time I left my roommate...

Jun 25th

passing-time: when a friend wants your opinion about her breaking up her boyfriend and you think...

Jun 24th

“Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more...”
— Friedrich Nietzsche

Jun 24th

Hitting the old ivories...

I took a lot of years of piano lessons. More than I will mention because I should be much better...

Jun 24th

“Never in my life have I wanted to be a pair of shorts so bad”
— The best pick up line of the...

Jun 23rd

Listen

Distinguishing the men from the boys… is complicated; however, one simple, telling sign is...

Jun 17th

Watch

(via taylorswaimphotography) Part of me swears that I saw Madeleine Peyroux perform three songs at...

Jun 17th

How come I wasn't driving the beer cart on...

Jun 16th

Today, I ran by the place where my love of running bloomed. ...

Jun 16th

Question: Female Commitment Phobes (for...

juliaallison: I’m curious about your thoughts - what causes late-blooming female commitment...

Jun 16th

Love you Dad!

Jun 15th

Happy Father’s Day!! (Someone got into their...

Jun 15th

“It’s all fun and games until you fucking lose.”
— David Bedford, sixth place in...

Jun 11th

Every couple of days my mom makes an arrangement of flowers...

Jun 11th

Downtown Des Moines is starting to look a little too much...

Jun 11th

Listen

caryrandolph: corndujour: Today, I started my run with the Beatles, Feeling Groovy, courtesy of...

Jun 11th

(Grandma) Pricka story of the day...

Pricka: Today I was feeling my arm and I found something..
Me: (concerned) Really? What was it?
Pricka: Well, I was feeling right up here and there is this huge lump. Come feel what I'm talking about.
Me: (as I walk over to her) A lump? What is it?
Pricka: My bicep. It is rock hard... I am one strong lady.
(And she wasn't lying)

Jun 11th

2 days left until E’s birthday… This was taken...

Jun 11th

Hi, I'm from the middle of Iowa...

and we’re drowning…

Jun 11th

Listen

Today, I started my run with the Beatles, Feeling Groovy, courtesy of my father’s ipod - not a...

Jun 11th

Countdown to E’s Birthday Continues… In WWF I...

Jun 11th

On Art

Dana: I'm ready to make the corporate jump. I'm ready to have sick days and health insurance. I'm sick of being the broke artist.
Me: Fuck art.
Dana: Yeah! I want to go on vacation, damn it!

Jun 11th

“It’s kind of hot out tonight. 105 and miserable, just...”
— David Letterman tonight (not...

Jun 10th

Someones birthday is coming up - the infamous E. And I...

Jun 10th

Listen

On this lovely little evening do yourself this favor: take a nice, cold little brewsky out to the...

Jun 10th

Watch

Meant to post this awhile ago… Pretty funny. (Courtesy of RTJ whose angry text I can’t...

Jun 9th

One question: Who in the fuck was in charge of painting our...

Jun 9th

1. I want to hear more about the tumblr get together. 2. I have just come upon about 4,000...

Jun 9th

Dr.C: Heard there was a tornado about 15 minutes away from you today.
Me: Yeah, what in the heck is going on?
Dr.C: I know. I think its time to start loading the animals up 2 by 2.

Jun 9th

Honey, I found us a lovely Manhattan home. Much to my...

Jun 9th

Just can't look away...

I’m about to watch the trainwreck of an hour of tv that features the lohan/denise richards...

Jun 9th

Anyone who can turn a Cypress Hill lyric...

Jun 8th

Ummm E...

I just ate that chocolate chip cookie ice cream sandwich that I made for you… … and...

Jun 8th

“I got no problem with Jesus, it’s his fan club I got a...”
— Chan Chandler, as quoted on...

Jun 8th

“Oh no, I don’t read the blogs – you couldn’t pay me to read...”
— Lisa Fernandes of Top Chef...

Jun 7th

While I’m “in transition” I have taken...

Jun 7th

I am hesitant to share this idea before patenting it because...

Jun 6th

The cops didn’t really mind that we trespassed to have...

Jun 4th

My dear friend AMB's favorite...

AMB: Hi, my name is A__
Random dude: Hi, my name is ___
AMB: Nice to meet you
Random dude: So nice to meet you, too.
AMB: So, are you putting out tonight?
Random dude: Uhhh i don't know or Oh yeah or My girlfriend's over there
AMB: Good, me too. See you later! (wink - always the wink)

Jun 4th

The budding feminist...

I ran into my high school sophomore spanish teacher today, ten years later.  Rarely did that class...

Jun 4th

“This is a story about love, death, driving, narcissism,...”
— Chuck Klosteman describing his...

Jun 4th

I’m playing bartender/pastry chef extraordinaire at my...

Jun 4th

Let me introduce you to my great...

(At age 92, still living in her little country house by herself, she wasn't making it upstairs as often)
Edna: Someone is stealing all of my knives. Everytime I turn around I'm missing a butter knife. I think there is a little mexican boy living upstairs and I think he comes down at night to take the knives.
Grandma Pricka: I don't think anyone is living upstairs. I'll go check right now.
Edna: No, I swear he is. I can hear him at night.
Pricka: Well, if that's the case then maybe it is time that you go to the nursing home because we don't want him coming down and hurting you.
Edna: Oh no! No... actually, I kind of like him. He seems like a sweet boy. Just has a thing for knives. I think I'm good here.

Jun 3rd

Head, shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes…. oooh...

Jun 3rd

This little celebrity blogger is from Iowa...

Jun 3rd

Watch

A little story by Tori Amos during a concert.  File under drugs, shit (a popular topic on this blog...

Jun 3rd

“Hey girl, you look a lot like my future wife”
— One of my homeless friends

Jun 3rd

Moving to the farm

(My aunt P and uncle J - mr. italian - are both doctors and have decided to buy and renovate the old family farm. We were looking at kitchen magazines at our impromptu reunion tonight)
P: J wants to put a chandelier above the tub in the master bathroom. No thank you. Something about all that electrical wiring above you in the bathtub. I just couldn't relax knowing that at any moment I could get the perm of a lifetime...
Me: (laughing) That's hilarious. I almost peed my pants a little.
P: Laughing so hard you pee your pants is like a family tradition. A joke isn't funny unless somebody let's a little out.

Jun 3rd

Transferring files from old computer(s) yesterday -...

Jun 3rd

Alright I guess I can post about the...

It was hilariously awful. 1. Don’t wear new racing flats meant for the track during a 12.4...

Jun 2nd

“I remember once going to a class in yoga where the teacher...”
— More Milton Glaser

Jun 1st

“Early in my career I wanted to be professional, that was my...”
— Milton Glaser in ‘10...

Jun 1st