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November 30, 2004

 

my year in fishing: visual

a tale of frustration, woe, thrills, wax worms, motorboats, strange meat, fish finders, marina cats, zen and those who pursue it...
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btk: profiled

Since March 2004, BTK has sent a number of communications to the media and the police. In these letters, he has provided certain background information about himself, which he claims is accurate. Based upon a review of that information, the following facts about BTK are being made available to the public in the hopes of identifying BTK: He claims he was born in 1939, which would make his current age 64 or...
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November 28, 2004

 

the dna of literature

Welcome to the DNA of literature—over 50 years of literary wisdom rolled up in 300+ Writers-at-Work interviews, now available online—free. Founder and former Editor George Plimpton dreamed of a day when anyone—a struggling writer in Texas, an English teacher in Amsterdam, even a subscriber in Central Asia—could easily access this vast literary resource; with the establishment of this online archive that day has finally come. Now, for the first time, you can...
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November 21, 2004

 

btk: dna

The lead investigator hunting the BTK serial killer has asked former Wichita police officers to provide their DNA in connection with the investigation. "We feel it is necessary at this point in our investigation to request swabs from some former police personnel," Lt. Ken Landwehr, the head of the homicide division, wrote to former officers in a letter published in the quarterly newsletter The re-Tired Copper. "We are collecting swabs to eliminate...
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November 18, 2004

 

secret life of daytime

I took a 'personal day' today to attend to various needs, foremost being not going to work. At one point, I loaded a backpack with a big cider jar full of change — full right up the neck and coming out the, uh, mouth hole — and went to the Slum Flesh to dump it all in one of those giant change machines. As soon as I started dumping stuff into the...
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November 16, 2004

   


 

some say love...

It’s quarter to midnight on a Monday and I’m downloading a copy of Bette Midler’s “The Rose” to my hard drive. There can be no other culmination of a week of incessantly playing the song in my dining room, hitting the fifths, working the pedal, my tongue firmly secured between my teeth as I fret over the upcoming ritardando and screwing it up so that I must go back to the beginning...
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November 15, 2004

   


November 08, 2004

 

holiday pies

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November 02, 2004

 

obligatory post about election day

I never wake up before 8am these days, mostly because I never go to bed before 2am. A problem, to be sure, since I'm supposed to clock in at 8:30 and not fall asleep at my desk, two problems I'm still struggling to overcome. This morning, with prompting from only one of my three alarm clocks (a triangulation of alarms, all set to different times, in a domino pattern is about the...
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