Day 0 – Getting There A few months before this trip, I was looking around at schooner trips around the U.S. I had taken some friends on a sunset cruise in St. Augustine during a girl’s trip weekend and I learned that there were tons … Continue reading4 Days on a Schooner in the Salish Sea
For months, the internet has been murmuring about the simultaneous release of Greta Gerwig’s Barbie and Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer. Two diametrically opposed films — sugar vs substance, pink vs black and white, divine feminine energy vs stark, intellectual masculinity — both dropping on the same fateful Friday in late July. … Continue readingBarbenheimer — The summer movie double-feature spectacle/meme event
Oh, a sci fi trope where you don’t have names. It didn’t work in the Road, probably won’t work here. I’m already exhausted. Those kids are going to make noise. Do birds need air? Please don’t let those birds suffocate. Are they just going to … Continue reading79 Thoughts I Had While Watching Bird Box™
I got the idea to do this post from Pitchfork’s 5-10-15-20 series, where they talk to artists about the music that inspired them, five years at a time, starting when they were 5 years old. Age 5 – A collection of songs from my … Continue reading5-10-15-20
Erase Errata – “Galveston, Dark Tides” Bananarama’s “Cruel Summer” meets the Replacements. This is kind of a serious song, though I can’t make out all the lyrics. A flood? I’m not sure. This band broke up this year, sadly. I can … Continue reading10 songs I loved in 2015
Act one: Dipping my toes in Vidalia I wasn’t a terribly picky eater when I was a kid. I ate most everything, save for the strongest of dinnertime flavors, the usual kid-unfriendly suspects such as asparagus and salmon. I didn’t hate onions, though. Bits … Continue readingSketches of Onion: A Love Affair in Three Acts
Introduction In the land of Nerantel, there are three continents: Carida, with wide grassy plains and gently sloping hills that jut directly into the watery underworld of Oceania. After Oceania, there is Rangeland, a continent filled with rocky cliffs and steep mountains. On one … Continue readingThe Nerantel gem or, middle-school Haley shines bright like a diamond
Since I was 17, Sleater-Kinney has been the definitive band of my life. My late-teen years and early 20’s were dominated by the shadow of these three ladies, and they color countless memories, giving context to both the songs and myself at various points in my … Continue readingA skeleton infused with Sleater-Kinney
Let’s hop into my favorite 10 tracks of 2014. You’ll also find the link to my favorite 50 on a playlist at the bottom. Enjoy! 1). Lydia Loveless – “Really Wanna See You” This song. Goddamn. Every single time–every single damn time–I listened to … Continue readingTop songs of 2014
This year it finally hit me. 2013, you absolutely overwhelmed me with the sheer amount of new music you dropped each month—albums, singles, b-sides, music videos. Every Tuesday saw brand spankin’ new releases, and when I wasn’t excited and listening to what actually just came … Continue readingBest of 2013