The Niceness Project

I just got a thank you email from my pal in Bakersfield for the SISTER WENDY videos that arrived today! Those guys at the post office are on it. Unfortunately, her VCR now appears to be broken so she won’t be able to watch the videos. And because she’s a nice person and a good [...]

I met Josephine in a supremely American fashion: she bought stuff from me at a garage sale. She happened to be jogging by our sale and stopped in just to look around. She bought a vintage silk dress and my grandmother’s red, white and blue Skyway luggage set. She told us that the set looked [...]

My friend Devil Doll is going on tour next Wednesday. She called me today about doing some prep work for her tour. And by prep work I mean washing all of her dishes because she currently has no clean silverware and picking up her leather pants from the dry cleaner. Ah, the joys of running [...]

I don’t remember when I started drinking coffee. I was that young. No. Really. I spent my grade school breakfasts hunched over the funny papers, drinking cafe au lait from 16 ounce mugs my parents purchased at the local craft fair. When I was little, one of my father’s chores was to buy coffee for [...]

Today I registered on Yelp! so I could start being one of those know-it-alls who reviews local businesses. I decided to register after noticing that three restaurants that I really love all had some snotty remarks made about them. I spent an hour writing up reviews under my new Yelp! pseudonym. Thirty minutes later I [...]

My friend Michelle has been nominated by The College Music Journal as one of the top 5 programmers of the year! Yay for cool and successful friends! She sent out a mass emailing today asking everyone to go to her website and click on her “Follow Me” button to help her win a trip to [...]

Miss Freecycle, who took about 50 moving boxes off my hands back in July, stopped by with a demo for her boyfriend’s band. I passed it along to my friend Fred, who is the intrepid host of the show Demolisten on KXLU. I don’t know if he’ll play the demo on his show, or even [...]