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April 28, 2005

 

late to the party

I'm now on Flickr. So, this site should go back to being word-heavy any day now. Anyone else on there I haven't linked virtual arms with yet?...
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April 26, 2005

 

dank, dark, doom and gloom

actual, genuine content coming soon....
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April 18, 2005

 

chicken in the car and the car won't go

i went to chicago. i got really drunk. we got locked in a cemetary. i saw shellac at noon. i ate tons of horrible foods. i cheefed. i slept good, i slept rotten, i took doctor prescribed medication. i walked all over, i slept on the red line. i finally figured out energy drinks. i floated at the sensory deprivation tanks. i am utterly exhausted. i took a shitload of photos...
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April 17, 2005

 

malisznewski v. chabon / almond v. foer

Two literary fistfights in one month. Well, the first one, mostly, the second one is just one author critically examining another, which, in the more outraged instance of a tibor fischer/martin amis or colson whitehead/richard ford review feud is always a fun time (especially in the case of the latter, 'cause grown men spitting on others because of bad reviews never loses its shock value). It was the kind of headline that...
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April 13, 2005

 

2nd place

Picture those awful dreams where you find yourself in a large crowd, wearing no clothes at all, and then picture yourself having to spell 'DISSYMMETRY' and that kind of approaches the nervous energy of being in a spelling bee. Especially when you're hovering on the edge of 30 years old and you have nothing to gain but the public admission that you're both nerdy enough to know how to spell and to...
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April 12, 2005

   


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heritage

The 2005 fishing season has started off inauspiciously. On a cold, gray Sunday, I pick up Sanders and we head for the Missouri River. We're going to try dip bait and weird dip hook things, which look like little bongs for fish. Also, a river, the mighty mo, a body of water which word of mouth condemns as rolling rot. But Sanders has checked and found that fish from the river...
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April 05, 2005

 

word nerd

I will be spelling my peripatetic heart out with sesquipedalian intensity this Thursday. I spell for honor, I spell for pride, I spell for my company. I spell because there's a free buffet and beer and gimp prizes for the losers. I spell because I have no choice but not to spell. C'mon out if you have absolutely no life....
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April 04, 2005

 

my math hero: paul erdös

"A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." He was allowed back into the United States in the 1960s, and from 1964 his mother, now in her mid-eighties, began travelling with him. Apart from his family and old friends, Erdos had no interest in a relationship which was not founded in shared intellectual curiosity and he was content to remain a bachelor. Nor did he see the need to...
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April 01, 2005

 

the shrieking journalism of marvin zindler

Eighteen months after the Chicken Ranch closed, I went to La Grange to show that the business economy didn't suffer from the closing of the Chicken Ranch. But I never got to do that story. The sheriff broke my rib, ripped the film out of the camera, exposed it to the sun, but didn't know to destroy the audio track. "Sheriff! Sheriff! Sheriff!" Marvin could be heard yelling on the partially...
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