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April 13, 2006

 

standards

Why is it acceptable to bring a baby into the office when there's no way I could get away with bringing a dog in? Both are about equally intelligent, have the same intrinsic appeal and contribute nothing to these goddamn files I have to churn out. Yet somehow it's allowed, hell, encouraged, that you bring your baby spawn in so all the barren women can coo over it and all the former...
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April 10, 2006

 

the big questions come marked spam

Cleaning out my email tonight, I found a junk mail that put its finger on the problem with this subject: Is your dimension keeping you depressed. Yes. That is exactly it....
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February 24, 2006

 

bits (or, I have the attention span of a kitten)

• Our Man in Taiwan shares a piece of a collaborative flim with Vinz and Craig by putting it on the Internets • I've been writing like crazy lately. Like some sort of idiot breakthrough, I can actually string letters into words into sentences into something approaching quality. Tonight was like that. I sat down and all the dumb hang-ups all vaguely solved themselves, then definitely solved themselves. I got all Jonathan...
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January 26, 2006

 

things

• I'm learning to play Für Elise, the song I crudely taught myself to convince myself to take lessons in the first place. Only now I'm playing both parts, using both hands, and reading it. Full circle, yo. • More Murphy Hall nonsense later this week. • I'm going to try selling some photos through here, exploring my options and trying to make things, y'know, actually desirable. This is a bit frightening...
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December 28, 2005

   


December 14, 2005

 

"the cuteness is coming for you"

Ok, I admit I've been pretty down in the mouth lately; the last week or so has been almost sideshow in nature, come see the amazing transformation of man into black hole right before your very eyes. But after a very enlightening couple of conversations in the last two days, things seem to be thawing a bit. But these are just cracks in the ice. Something hammer-sized needs to come along and...
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May 12, 2005

 

interrobang

whimsy!...
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May 10, 2005

 

i should go to bed now

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...
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August 20, 2004

 

just because

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August 06, 2004

 

as if on cue

ah, cleverness......
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March 04, 2004

 

drinking at club 33

Exiting the ride, you’ll wander onto a faux New Orleans street named Rue Royale and to your left, behind an apparently fake door with the innocuous marker “33” is the entrance. Even if you’ve been to the club a dozen times and think you remember clearly where it is, you can miss it. It seems almost invisible. For good reason. Disney’s imagineers have scoured the color spectrum and discovered the shades least...
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December 05, 2003

 

trepanation for kids

Thanks, Amy....
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November 11, 2003

 

relouped

The Loupe returns irregularly. Welcome back, Todd....
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September 12, 2003

 

katrina loncaric: yodeler (crucial)

My friend Katrina is neck and neck with one other contestant to win the Yahoo Yodeling contest and needs all the votes she can get to pull ahead as the winner. It ends Sunday @ Midnight, so please vote early, vote often. (Click on the New York, NY 'Vote Now' button at the top of the list)...
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August 02, 2003

 

hitchens on hope

To be paralyzingly, painfully, hopelessly unfunny is not a particular defect or shortcoming in, say, a cable repair man or a Supreme Court justice or a Navy Seal. These jobs can be performed humorlessly with no loss of efficiency or impact. But to be paralyzingly, painfully, hopelessly unfunny is a serious drawback, even lapse, in a comedian. And the late Bob Hope devoted a fantastically successful and well-remunerated lifetime to showing that...
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July 10, 2003

   


July 09, 2003

 

we::blog

This is a weblog open to the public. Anyone can register and start posting here. Find something cool on the net? Leave a link. Anyone who registers can comment on the blog items! This kicks ass. Trust me. What results, of course, is some kind of cretin meltdown. Honestly, I live for discoveries like this....
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April 30, 2003

 

rampage!

(big ups to John Zuluaga)...
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April 24, 2003

 

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