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Wah / Mosquito Alarm / Mao’s Kitchen

May 28, 2006 -- Tags: , ,

Chicago suburban school board member attempts to ban books from the required reading list… Without having even read them herself.
My eyes are swollen with tears of hatred at your dumbness, lady. You aren’t just dumb. You’re dum. You don’t even deserve a “B” at the end of the word of [...]

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An Old Friend

May 26, 2006 -- Tags: ,

One downside of not smoking is that I don’t get to use my Zippo anymore.
I have this classic steel Zippo lighter that I carried around for years. CHAK-click! I never, ever left home without it. The Promethean gift of fire, the stone age technological equivalent of the atomic bomb, right in [...]

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Surpassing the Master

May 24, 2006 -- Tags:

In the elevator of the temporary art building Yumi Kim told us a pretty interesting story about how as an apprentice Leonardo Da Vinci worked on a painting together with his master Verrocchio.
Verrocchio did most of the painting himself, but he had Leonardo do a minor bit of it — he had him paint [...]

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Yar

May 23, 2006 -- Tags:

I’m still learning to decide which is good news to share and which is good news to keep secret to myself (because it’s more fun that way).
When I was a kid I loved hearing good news because it disproved the existence of bad news. Good news takes up the physical space where bad [...]

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Young Adult Fiction

May 22, 2006 -- Tags:

Lately I’ve been reading books intended for teenage girls.
I believe in sometimes doing the opposite of what you normally do. That’s why I sometimes watch NASCAR or wear my underwear on my head. I’m a progressive dude.
Anyway, I read “Rx” by Tracy Lynn. That was Jill’s suggestion and it [...]

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Why?

May 20, 2006 -- Tags: ,

Last night I ran my usual route twice in a row. At the point when I normally turn right to head home, I went left to go back around again. I ran ten miles.
I don’t know why I did that. Even when I had just turned left I was thinking, “Hey, [...]

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