November 2009
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“That’s dangerous! One of them could fall down and break a leg!”
– my grandmother’s take on World Series Game 3 going on in spite of a damp playing field
October 2009
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Probability the clown
Really, it’s not such a bad job. I get wet sometimes but that’s the worst of it. Overall, people don’t have the aim to take me down. The carnival only operates in good weather, so I dry off again quickly and whatever discomfort I endure on that score is made up for by getting to spend the rest of my time telling idiots what I really think of them. When I still had my office job, I used to have to...
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“There is a man waiting for you on the sunny side of the square, and he expects a...”
– a man in a dream I had over three years ago
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WatchI’m not sure what Mer is up to here, aside from being hilarious and cute like she does. I’m pretty sure the soundtrack is Wesley Willis, which makes an already-good thing exponentially better.
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not of my people
It was the first Tuesday of the month, which is when the exterminator comes. The exterminator is a kindly native African with a Master’s in public health, who exterminates in my building to test different formulations of his own making. He speaks with the mannered, impeccable English of a person who received his education somewhere besides America and always declines my offers of food and drink,...
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“that’s like getting stood up, times 100, by robots.”
– Jeremy, responding to my confession that I once led an innocent college freshman to dress up and attend a nonexistent robot dance party
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about her
A girl can play and win, in front of all your friends
A girl can remember everything she ate today
A girl can understand but isn’t interested
A girl can be rather animated in ways that are good and ways that are problematic
A girl can’t sit there quietly
A girl can’t help herself
A girl doesn’t want to, around you
A girl likes robots
A girl likes your...
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Anniversary →
my friend Ryan Barger made a highly awesome short zombie movie. take a look!
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moods, consisting of:
resigned
reflective
restless
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combatative
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grrr
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in the chair
wired
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smiling
skeptical
out
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faintly amused
on the floor
blue
meta
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accepting
going to bed
hungry
creative
self-doubt
playful
abstracted
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wink, nudge
I get this feeling that most of the time I’m implying something, but I have no idea what it is.
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one-track mind
“We’re dead,” she said. “I’m not going to have sex with you.”
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now I just feel like an a-hole
for holding out on tumblr for so long. I’m sorry I was stubborn, tumblr. you are right and I was wrong.
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DIE FOR HOBODARKSEID YOU DICKS →
HOBODARKSEID is no more. I may yet worship the ashes.
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not martha →
this has some good craft and baking projects, including really detailed how-tos - which is helpful except in the case of the MEAT HAND, where it is horrifying.
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1000 constellations →
wouldn’t you know, the guy named FartSandwich on twitter is actually a sensitive poet. here he posts one poem a day, every day, and they are not all good but some of them are very good. I want to remember to look at them, and also write more poems and not worry so much about if they are good or not.
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pictures for sad children →
that web comic Ben linked to when I was “having a mood” last night. I’m not sure how I feel about the whole series, but I like this one a lot.
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here things fall out of my brain and into the...
no, really they are just falling into the internet from another part of the internet. my brain is irrelevent. good.
