Hey all you Mt. Pleasant and Columbia heights folks...

Turn your dials to 97.5 tonight from 6-7PM!

Here our brand new demo release and off the cuff banter.

you can also listen to the demo online at www.messupthemess.com

Love,
Cricket

marrying her to her fiance, that is. i printed out the ol' internet reverend form (universal life church--the same people who married my parents on a beach. wait, is that our religion then?) and they want me to officiate.

well of course! it's terrifying, weird, and time consuming, not to mention awkward. but they asked me! and she's my family. i grew up with her. she's worked so hard to make it out of the life most of my family hasn't been able to. i don't need to go back into it, but pretty much everyone but me drives a bus, a sewer truck, strips, or does nothin' but smoke crack and drink all day. i'm the one who's supposed to president of the united states or something because i live in a city, married a great guy, and didn't have 2 kids before i was 17. oh, my 20 year old cousin just got pregnant, too. she is going to have it harder now, but she knows.

anyway. i need to call my cousin because basically the family drafted me. and i love these girls. they just live in west va, on black memorial road, etc. and i really don't feel like reliving the wedding drama crap already!!

the entire point of this post was: the only wedding idea i have heard from her so far involved port-a-potties. i need to help her see a cheap, pretty, simple and beautiful gathering of family. but NOWHERE will there be port-a-potties. we're millers, dammit! and we party, but we have our dignity.

oh, god, i'm traumatized here...

A List, By Jessica S., Age 26

- French bulldogs (other short-faced dogs as well; dogs in general; Nintendogs - I am pretty much the hugest dog creep in existence, as proved by the fact that I was OGLING that Boston Terrier at dinner last night and her owners were totally like "Uh ... ")
- triumphant metal
- circle pits
- the loudest amplifier in the room
- any song with a minor key hook
- ridiculous rubber-costume monster movies
- forensic psychology/criminal anthropology
- neurological research
- superstring theory
- Richard Feynman (and the fact that Lectures on Physics will NEVER DIE)
- dancing
- burritos
- falafel
- physical affection
- not sleeping on the side of the bed closest to the wall
- proper nutrition
- pulp novel covers
- 75 degree weather, if it's sunny
- 85 degree weather, if it's raining
- occasional treat food that is full of fat and sugar
- people who are good at telling stories
- wordplay
- frozen grapes
- quinoa
- lentils
- public libraries
- being curled up in a blanket when it's cold out
- harmless mischief
- crime dramas and ghost stories
- actual good poetry
- pencil skirts
- when I practice guitar often enough to have calluses and a perma-crick in my neck (it's a reminder to me that I am keeping up with practice and that someday I will be good)
- botanical gardens
- people surprising you by being awesome when you've lowered your expectations
- traveling
- the first good skating day of the year
- the human body in all its ridiculousness

This list is a general appreciation post for all of the above. It's not meant to define my identity because I think that's ridiculous. Nouns and adjectives!

Ma chere Killoggs,

I undertand the gravity of my lie. But we can't live together any more. So I'm going to try to live my own life here or elsewhere. When I'm a man, I'll return and we'll discuss everything.

Goodbye et je vous-embrasse,

Andrew