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August 29, 2005

 

how we now spell relief

I came down with a sinus thing this weekend, starting somewhere late into Friday night and emerging full-blown, headachey and angry on Saturday morning. It felt like my last morning in Chicago this past April, waking up around 6 am to go to the airport after drinking heavily all night until 2:30 or 3, that kind of sleepless, bleary, pounding horror. So I ignored it for the best part of Saturday, until...
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August 25, 2005

 

craigslist kc style pt. 2

Our craigslist is not like your craigslist: stuff that i could use... and take off your hands for you. hey, I don't have an income, but I do barter clothes and such. I'm a size 2/3 female, I wear a lot of bohemian/tribal/hippy stuff. I am looking for painting supplies, a stereo of any kind, a big old dresser, a mirror, wall hangings and saris, good classic books (esp. in the political...
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August 16, 2005

 

Kublai Khan does not necessarily believe everything Marco Polo says

Buzz Gallery presents: City:Visible Photo essays on urban space Interpreting the work of Italo Calvino Sept 9th to Oct. 3rd Artists Reception Friday, September 16th, 2005, 7-10pm Mama Buzz Café and Buzz Gallery 2316 Telegraph Avenue, Oakland This event is free With cities, it is as with dreams: everything imaginable can be dreamed, but even the most unexpected dream is a rebus that conceals a desire or, its reverse, a fear....
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August 15, 2005

 

"the end of the world is nigh, bri"

September 20th and I can finally watch this masterpiece of loutish British misanthropy again....
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craigslist kc style

Our craigslist is not like your craigslist: Will copy home videos to DVD for a large outdoor trampoline. Safety net would be great too....
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in the lot out back

So I get ready to leave the house yesterday, despite the pounding headache I suffered through all morning and afternoon. I step out the back door around 5 or so, the sky lit brightly and the air cool enough to warrant turning off the a/c and opening every window. I lock both back doors and start down the stairs, when I look over at the lot, and there, in a strange car,...
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August 11, 2005

 

"If Hitler didn't like my record I'd be hurt."

I don't read Pitchfork too much these days. Life without Internet and all that that implies. But I've been getting heavy into the Silver Jews lately and this interview with David Berman is totally great, down to the last line. Berman: My Y2K party lasted four years longer than I expected it to. It was fun. Not the last year. The last year was bad. I went to rehab. Relapsed a couple...
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August 10, 2005

 

mea culpa

I am a bad blogger. Tons more soon. Like, a ridiculous amount. Enough that you will say, you will email, you will shout to the sky "please stop already, this is getting tiresome." I got all sorts of high-falutin' opinions I'm only all too eager to share with all 6 of you. Life without the Inertnet just kind of has a way of reducing the importance of all potential posts to a...
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August 02, 2005

 

on the first day of august my true love gave to me

A mental health day, I guess. I woke up at 8, the alarm still going off and me still not getting up. So I said fuckit. I have 19 sick days coming to me. NINETEEN. That's a lot of sickness I'll thankfully never acquire, so I decided to use "lack of sleep" as a form of sickness and called my boss, who was as non-chalant as possible and said "That's cool. Get...
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