Backup of my old LiveJournal blog
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23 Sep 2006Nebraska roads are bad, but the speed limit is high. It’s as if they acknowledge the fact that all you want to do is get the fuck out of there as quickly as possible. The grey ribbon of the interstate stretching between endless fields of green and gold, and it just. Won’t. Stop. *** Cornfields […]
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22 Sep 2006The last two Cat and Girl comics were hilarious. Read the first. Then the second. Then laugh.
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21 Sep 2006Been driving a lot the last couple of days. Far too much. Started in Minneapolis (was that only yesterday?) and drove down south, through the disappointing SPAM museum and (on a whim) south to Iowa. Iowa, as anybody can tell you, is corn. I had a vision in my head of endless cornfields, each ear […]
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21 Sep 2006Now the only question is which Stonehenge replica – Stongehenge cover version, if you will – I will get to visit. Silly, silly Americans.
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21 Sep 2006What the HELL am I doing in Des Moines?
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20 Sep 2006It’s a shame that it’s the middle of the night in Israel right now, so there’s no one online to whom I can gloat exultantly that the Dresden Dolls are finishing their Australian tour next week and will fly back to the West Coast, where they will have several shows starting in San Diego and […]
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19 Sep 2006In the beginning… was Coca Cola. From the soda fountain to the bottling plant, to New Coke and back to Classic and Cherry Coke and Diet Coke and Vanilla and Coke with Lime, the line expanded and branched out. So until we reach the logical conclusion and are able to buy a Jalapeño Coke or […]
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19 Sep 2006For those Alces Alces-obsessed among my readers (I know you’re out there) I will share today’s lunch, eaten at the Moosejaw Pizza & Brewing Company in Wisconsin. The outside is wooden and outdoorsy and cute. The inside is a huge wooden hall with log-chairs and massive feats of taxodermy lining the walls – not […]
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18 Sep 2006Via my brother comes this delightful, impossible and completely grammatical English sentence: Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo Try to figure out what it means. I’ll just give a quick hint and say that there are three different lexical values of ‘buffalo’ here. If you think you’ve got it, got too frustrated or […]
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18 Sep 2006In Douglas Coupland’s “Microserfs”, protagonist Dan, ever the consumer junkie, goes wild with excitement over the announced Crystal Pepsi: The day they introduced Crystal Pepsi, I harassed the local Safeway manager almost daily until it arrived. I thought this new Pepsi was going to be like regular Pepsi, except minus the plutonium stuff that turns […]
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