Cleveland Love

When women complain about how men don't have feelings, I wonder if they listen to Jawbreaker. That being said, I can't remember how ...

The piles of boxes keep rising, more and more of life in compartments, inventorying the legacy of inheritance and consumption, as words of g...

As I watched desert warriors play songs of protest and assertions of humanity, the drone of electric guitars, the heartbeat catharsis of cal...

I can't untangle all this, and this isn't the place to do it. I'm pretty pissed for good reason I think.

Is it a shift of opinion or the sharpening of age, the dissolution of the idealism once held dear, the deepening of a spiritual understandin...

Processing my frustration through conversation and creation, sculpting clay, scrawling verse and prayer, ripping out crabgrass in the garden...

Yeah it's true But only in part Actions best forgotten of a desperate heart And it hurts This salt in the wound But what compels them to...

It's only May and my skin is already beginning to darken, between softball (in which I am improving, though that's not saying much),...

I know it's just a matter of time before every band I like is dead because I latched on to the sound of previous generations, but Poly S...

Did you know almost half the girls in Cleveland are half Irish, half Polish? That is a fact I made up just now. - Bridget's right it se...

I was in frustrated with the world mode this morning, finding catharsis in songs about the messed-up-ness of the world and those who run it,...

So we've been massively entertained by the absurdity of English Pravda, with its lurid reports of Yeti femme fatales seducing "Cauc...

I was in line at the bank this weekend listening to old men talk about how it sucks that people are revolting in Libya because that means th...

There's no sound worse than the dentist's drill going down into your jaw, looking up and seeing gloves flecked with blood. "You...

I read, I listen, I watch, and I'm just a bystander not wholly innocent, an observer. These systems in other countries, built upon entit...

Usually my public transportation commute is unremarkable, as the Rapid is generally crowded with other souls who work banking hours and kids...

I spent this morning sleeping in, not wanting to wake up from my cocoon of blankets and my grandma's feather bed, staring up at the ceil...

I've been through this rollercoaster of emotions before, in regards to certain pressing issues at hand, and know that I'll endlessl...

In discussion of musical taste and such, I don't think I'm terribly ashamed of my guilty pleasures. As Randal has astutely observed,...

One of my friends from the hallowed slacker Tri-C days of yore, who made the Cleveland Scene for Dumbest Quote of the Year for selling a par...