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April 27, 2004

 

see thru

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April 26, 2004

 

day three: oblivion go

Two things: 1. They say that quitting cigarettes is harder than kicking heroin (this is also the same ‘they’ that also says that peas are the poor man’s steak). 2. Kicking heroin is apparently a very hard thing to do....
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i am the world

The production shifts, with guitar and drums both going from scratchy and rough to smooth, from the other end of the dining room to a foam-walled studio, unevenly divided between a live bit of rough playing and intimate brinksmanship....
Posted by xtop at 11:15 AM
 


April 23, 2004

 

day two: rack focus

In 11 years of smoking, I can accurately state that I've smoked every day for the last ten years. A pack a day, for three years. Throw in three years of 2 packs a day and 4 years of pack...
Posted by xtop at 10:09 PM
 


April 22, 2004

 

day one: blown

Roughly 19 hours ago, I was half-awake in my thinking chair, working on website stuff, deadline stuff, pointless, inertnet stuff. I stubbed out my cigarette and shortly, my hand went for the pack, and it was empty. Fraction came...
Posted by xtop at 07:54 PM | Comments (5)
 


 

cyber btk

Investigators working on the BTK serial killer case have obtained a court order seeking information about six people who have posted messages on a Wichita Eagle Internet site that was started after the killer reemerged....
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ira glass revealed

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April 18, 2004

 

yoda lives

A DWARF mouse named Yoda has celebrated his fourth birthday, making him the oldest of his kind and far beyond 100 in human years, the University of Michigan Medical School says. Yoda owes his longevity to genetic modifications that...
Posted by xtop at 01:29 PM | Comments (10)
 


April 17, 2004

 

my life in fishing: learning, succeeding, pontificating

I hold him in front of me, staring at him, and while I feel the keening excitement of having succeeded not once, but twice, I also feel the letdown, the all animals are sad after coitus feeling, because there are hundreds of fish in this lake and I want every single one to bear the mark of me in their mouth, a jagged little hole that claims every piece of swimming life as mine.
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April 12, 2004

 

shiva opens her arms now

Good pal Matthew Glasson's photoblog of the Figure 8 wall tribute to Elliott Smith....
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April 09, 2004

 

from the tree

"Why should we hear about body bags and deaths and how many, what day it's gonna happen? It's not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?" — George W. Bush's mother Barbara on ABC/Good...
Posted by xtop at 01:56 AM
 


 

apocalypse now

Yitzhaq Hayutman holds the key to peace on Earth - it's on a floppy disk in his pants pocket. With his full white beard, bald pate, and well-pressed khakis, the 61-year-old Israeli cybernetics expert and tech investor looks like Moses...
Posted by xtop at 01:52 AM
 


April 05, 2004

 

whole brain atlas

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April 04, 2004

 

The BTK Saga Explained

In northeast Wichita, the sun was turning snow to slush when Charlie Otero returned home from Robinson Junior High School at 3:40 p.m. A minute later he ran out of the house at 803 N. Edgemoor and yelled to a...
Posted by xtop at 04:07 AM
 


April 02, 2004

 

my phone call with ira

so, if you were gonna interview Ira Glass, like, say, Tuesday at 1:45? What would you, my intrepid half dozen readers, ask him? No. Seriously. Cause I have no idea. This is like interviewing god. Y'know, if god were Jewish...
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