Archive for May, 2006
Friday, May 26th, 2006
A Perturbed Reaction to Jimmy John’s Neon
I ride past a Jimmy John’s sub shop almost every day on my way to/from work. There’s a large neon sign in the window declaring and it always irritates me. I imagine the creators thought they were being cheeky and/or funtastic in that smug, irritating way creative people employ when they are trying to increase [...]
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Wednesday, May 24th, 2006
A real-life video game
I went out this evening to poster for the upcoming PRIDE film festival and to go grocery shopping. I knew the minute I walked out the door that a storm was coming in – any Midwestern kid worth their salt can feel the leaden heaviness, the tense torpor, that precedes a good thunderstorm. [...]
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Wednesday, May 24th, 2006
Dead Moon RAWKS
In a fit of either steadfast loyalty or a shameful willingness to acquiesce to peer pressure, I accidentally went to a rock show last night. “Accidentally”, because, as we were leaving a bar after having witnessed the embarrassing loss of the Pistons to the gakk-y Shaq-y Miami Heat, I spied with my little eye [...]
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Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006
Eighty percent of success is showing up
For those wondering what I look like with my new haircut, here I am, in all of my glory. (The credit for this photo goes to Becky Carter, the reincarnation of Leni Riefenstahl and who photoshops small human children into extremely pants-wetting-frightening pedophile-trapping stepford automatons. Do not stare too closely for too long [...]
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Friday, May 19th, 2006
C’mon Get Happy
Knowing what I know:
(that the proposed new CIA chief Gen. Michael Hayden is actually the dad from “That 70’s Show”),
Here the song that I’m singin’
C’mon get happy!
A whole lot of eavesdroppin’ is what Hayden’ll be bringin’
He’ll get us wiretappin’-happy!
We had a dream, we’d go travelin’ together,
We’d spread a little illegal surveillin’ then we’d keep movin’ [...]
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Friday, May 19th, 2006
Happy National Bike to Work Day!
Every work day should begin with a nice little bike ride to breakfast, consisting of bagels, cream cheese, coffee and sleepy conversation, provided free of course, and eaten outside when the weather’s beautiful, as it was this morning.
The best part about sitting on the sidewalk with cream cheese on your chin and a helmet on [...]
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Thursday, May 18th, 2006
Ik ben de haar
I’m trying to learn Dutch for the upcoming trip abroad, so the title of the post means: “I am the hair.”
I spent more money than I ever have before on a haircut 2 days ago. It was supposed to be free, but then I felt guilty and cheap so I paid for the thing [...]
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Thursday, May 18th, 2006
2 Automated Things I Love
Without a doubt, the USPS self-serve kiosks. I love Love LOVE these things – available 24-7, and they have saved my poor-planning bacon so many times…. You can mail letters AND boxes and the only person you have to talk to is yourself. And even that’s optional, if you remember to take your [...]
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Monday, May 8th, 2006
Oh, the dharma bums
[[ SCENE: We have just exited a head shop in downtown bloomington, on kirkwood avenue. Kirkwood Avenue is the Hawthorne Avenue of bloomington (for those who know Portland, OR), the main east-west thoroughfare through downtown, lined with eateries, small shops, banks and the like. The interior of the head shop consists of [...]
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Thursday, May 4th, 2006
Overheard at the Chocolate Moose
[[Editorial Aside: For those who have never had the pleasure of visiting Bloomington, the Chocolate Moose is an old-school ice-cream stand situated in the middle of a parking lot. They sell a food item (???) called the Coney for $ .55 - I believe it is a hot dog bun with Coney Island sauce, [...]
