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IF YOU SUPPORT SPENDING CUTS DURING
A RECESSION, YOU'RE A FUCKING IDIOT
From the New York Times, Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman:
The Austerity ...
It's a lot like life
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This is how this week feels. I did stuff. I ate stuff. I said some stuff.
Chloe is sick, Sophie is bored, the cats are flea'd, and MathMan and Nate
are b...
Favorite Things
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Beech trees and purple flowers!
Walks in the park--right park but that's not me!Birdwatching--this is not
me!
Reading books--again, not me in this picture!
...
Cutie Honey (Hideaki Anno, 2004)
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While I have been watching a great deal of weird, questionably budgeted
Japanese films of late, *Cutie Honey* is perhaps the one I can most
sincerely offer...
Fighting the Good Fight
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“I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.”
Nathan Hale
“Those in authority not only organize things to suit themselves, they
inte...
twenty six years
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Twenty six years ago.... my boy Bubba bounced into my life.
It has been interesting ever since...
...... even though he has changed a bit.
*HAP...
I'm bored. Source these quotes.
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One:
"I think anybody who's got a five-point majority and still doesn't control
the agenda might be spending a little too much time reading about how to
...
Exploiting Haters For Better America
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A rich guy recently said he would put out ads rehashing the Obama,
Reverend White thing from 2008.
This was disavowed quickly but the point was made an...
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I spent a lot of time alone as a child.
Coming home from school normally meant one of two things....the house would
be full of people that I had no desire t...
Is it Just Me?
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So, I read this morning that the CEO of an Italian nuclear engineering company was ambushed and kneecapped yesterday by two men on a motor cycle. The working...
Casino Movie Marathon!
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I've been working on an art commission that has a kind of retro casino feel
so I've been watching some gambling movies to kind of get in the mood...
The fi...
"Hemingway's Beard"
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Luis Quintanilla in prison in Madrid, 1934
If this exposition of dry points by Luis Quintanilla had been two months
ago, the list of patrons w...
Thank you, and God bless you all!
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Well, this is a difficult post to write. I'm so full of love for all of you
right now, bursting with it, and have so many things that I want to
say...but I...
Nothing to See Here!
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The official story is absence of evidence is evidence of absence, there was
no environmental contaminant because all the right tests didn't show 'em,
so mo...
Hacked
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While I was recovering from having a broken tooth (with an exposed nerve
and a long and healthy root) pulled with not much more than fancy pliers
(hold tha...
We Are The Past's Future
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Of the many very good Editorials coming from the NYTimes in the past
several months, this one is perhaps the most relevant and accurate in
regards to how o...
Pity
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Here is what I haven't said; this is what I can't say;
The loss of her broke me. It shattered me into a thousand wee pieces and
left them scattered about....
Write Now
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Yesterday I attended my first day school for the Open University’s A215
Creative Writing course. It wasn’t as scary as I thought it was going to
be; we spe...
"Why don’t you just let us get on down the road?"
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"Do you know who I am?" You know what gets me really hot? A man who knows
what he wants and will go to any length to get it.
After a police officer pu...
Duane Tatro - Jazz For Moderns (1954-5)
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A virtual unknown, Tatro's legacy consists of this one album "Yet listeners
lucky enough to have heard the present album have long cited Tatro as one
of th...
Ketchup
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Not much new on the wedding front, although we decided that instead of
trying to plan for the celebration this year, we'd wait until next summer
and get ma...
Reunion 2011
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[image: Rogers 40th reunion][image: Wilson Jr. High table][image: Wilson
Jr. High table][image: Wilson Jr. High table][image: Wilson Jr. High table][image: ...
WAITING FOR THE MOON
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I am waiting for the full moon to shine upon the sleeping flowers. Waiting
for her to cast her sheen where the tiny unborn frogs hide hoping for
spring. Wa...
If I were not an Atheist, I'd call it Kismet
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I have not posted here in over a year. Sorry to all you folks, but I think
many of you follow me on Adventures in Nerdliness, so know I am not dead. I
was ...
I'm in the hospital for lung surgery
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*Holy Spirit Hospital, Camp Hill, PA where I will have lung surgery on
Friday, Jan. 21.*
*Did I smoke? You bet.*
In fact, for 30 or 35 years (I stopped ...
All You Do Is Blink
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Nothing makes you feel older and younger like standing in front of
teenagers all day. I teach in the very high school I graduated from thirty
years ago, an...
Communal Capitalism
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[image: picture]Here's an excerpt from one of my novels, In the Land of the
Dacks, for you to chaw on, if so inclined. It deals with basic economics
and ho...
Eric Lewis
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This guy is absolutely amazing. You have never heard nor seen anyone play a
piano like this. From "Smells Like Teen Spirit"
to Evanescence's "Going Under...
Oh Pretty Baby, You Are Just Too Good To Be True!
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DEATH OF A BEBOP WIFE by GRANGE "LADY HAIG" RUTAN
Author
“The Lady Knows!”
Dan Morgenstern - Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers
Grange Margaret "Peggy-...
The call of the new rite
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"Now they designate that Paschal season by her name, calling the joys of
the new rite by the time-honoured name of the old observance."
---Bede, "De tempor...