Who is the "Suburban Kamikaze"?

The Suburban Kamikaze is the nom de keyboard of Chicago area writer and journalist Pat Dunnigan, whose work has appeared in respectable newspapers, magazines, books, radio and literally thousands of Post-It notes across the country.

But over the years, she found she had amassed a collection of what might loosely be called "thoughts" and "stories" that did not necessarily fit into the category of her work that could loosely be described as "profitable."

In short, she was interested in squandering years of professional credibility for the rapidly expanding literary format known as "unpaid" that would soon come to dominate the world of ideas.

This presented her with a world of new opportunities including the freedom to sprinkle profanity and sexual innuendo throughout her writing as well as the freedom from professional editing that had long repressed her shallow comic worldview and affection for run-on sentences.

The result is what has been described as the "funniest laundry blog to come out of the suburban Midwest since ever."

Also as "so not funny. And what is up with her hair?"  But we are pretty sure that one was coming from inside the house. 

-SK

Comments

[Perry]

love it! Today's it's helping me survive a very Midwestern (St. Louis style) lawn care moment, in my neighborhood of square and ball-shaped bushes, razor-edged, postage-stamp lawns, and office-park landscaping. These people think "cottage style" gardens (perennial beds, climbing roses and vines, etc.) need some Round-up and a giant weed-eater, and they are not above hiring one while you're away for the weekend, or "accidentally" mowing your gorgeous fountain-shaped flower bush to the nearly blossom-free square theirs have been so carefully molded to become.---transplant, not thriving here.

[Suburban Kamikaze]

Oh Perry, it gets so much worse. Have you seen winter? Have you had the Jell-O salad?

SK