May 2012
2 posts
April 2012
1 post
March 2012
5 posts
Nia: Did you know that “Express” means “Food” in Chinese?
Me: (Doing some yoga-type stretching in the morning.)
Nia: Is rubbing your eyes part of the stretch?
Nia: Can we read The Bears Who Did Not Like a Girl in Their House?
Me: Goldilocks and the Three Bears?
Nia: Yeah. That one.
February 2012
8 posts
fresh start
Me: Starting today I’m going to eat healthier and exercise.
Nia: Guess what else you will do? Fix my wedgies! Fix my wedgie pleeeeease.
(Then I pulled her underwear out of her butt crack)
Nia: I’m performing tomorrow. I’m Princess Leia and he’s Luke. I don’t want people to love Leia too much because then Luke will feel bad. There will be a lot of people cheering. Too many people for you guys.
Me: What? Are you saying your own mom can’t come to your performance?
Nia: Nope. There are too many other people coming.
Nia: I’m going to say good bye to Samir again because he’s really going to miss me.
Pretend?
Matt (in funny pretend voice): So, what do you do?
Nia: I drink beer and stay up late. I don’t know the term for that yet.
The finale
The Setup: A couple we haven’t seen in a long time are in town visiting. Nia just said “goodnight” to them and is now getting ready to take a bath. She runs out of the bathroom.
NIA
And now for the finale! My butt! No pants! No underwear!
January 2012
9 posts
Getting ready
I’m going to go pick out my dress now. I’m going to make myself look like magic.
Matt: How you feeling back there Nia?
Nia: Like a Champion.
Average Day
“Mom! Quick! Turn on the light, poop is about to come out of my body!” —Nia
Nia's dictionary
Crobbled [kraw-buh ld]
When your mouth is so sore that bad stuff comes out of it.
[Nia rocking back and forth in a chair.]
Me: Do you have to go potty?
Nia: No. Just jammin.
He was the guy they all loved, and he was dead.
They filled the room with people. They painted his face in lights on the back wall, a lazy southern smirk on his black-and-white lips. One of his coworkers said that she’d once been worrying aloud about being a new mom in front of him, and he’d said, “plenty of people poorer and dumber than you have done it just fine.” The photo looked like he might have just said that, right before the...
Stories Nia has recently told her teachers
“My mom is pregnant with twins.”
“My mom got stuck in the bathroom. She got hurt bad. She had to go to the hospital.”
“Is this good or bad poop? What if a witch came out of my poop?”
Live Bait: A Lesson From the Annals of Peter... →
jaketbrooks:
This story about Tyler Rush takes place on Aug. 5, 2003. It was originally published sometime in May 2009 as part of a special Peter Kaplan farewell edition of the New York Observer. After reading it, Tyler sent me this drawing of an eel. It’s been prominently displayed in my living room ever…
November 2011
2 posts
October 2011
2 posts
Audio Collage from 10-17 show. Theme: New... →
September 2011
11 posts
Podcast of show airing 09-26-11 →
Playlist from 09-19-11 show
99 Problems Jay Z
Lawyers Guns & Money Warren Zevon
My Attorney Bernie Blossom Dearie
Will Your Lawyer Talk to God Kitty Wells
Bad Tooth Lee Perry
Brush Your Teeth Raffi
My dentist said, “you have the root canals of a 90-year-old even though you’re in your 20’s.”
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anotherdementia:
Podcast of show airing on...
Podcast of ANOTHER DEMENTIA airing 09-05-2011 →
anotherdementia:
Theme: End-of-Summer
With special guest: Rachael Levasseur
Guest host: Matt Wright
August 2011
5 posts
Listen live today! ANOTHER DEMENTIA radio show....
July 2011
5 posts
The Condition: Existential Googling →
