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A Friday Roundup
It’s an NPR sort of Friday. Ms. S. tells me that her morning commute is often defined by what’s on NPR; I, on the other hand, get it mainly through their website. Years ago in Madison I used that 3-CD-changer, … Continue reading
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Tagged books, chocolate, food, House of Leaves, In through the Out Door
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Today was a day for completions, not for starts
Yesterday after burritos and bus passes I stopped by the library to get Kelly Link’s Magic for Beginners, a short story collection. Along the way I picked up several other books, most of which remain unread so far, though I … Continue reading
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Tagged Buffy, coffee, David Bowie, Douglas Preston, House of Leaves, music, Pendergast
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Hallo Spaceboy
The laundromat raised prices 25 cents on their front-load washers. So now the rates are: * top load: $1.25 * double-load front load: $2.25 * triple-load front load: $3.00 * quad-load front load: $4.00 * $0.25/10-minutes for the dryers I … Continue reading
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Tagged comics, David Bowie, House of Leaves, laundry, music, quarters
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People matter
1. Today is first about people … … getting off the 3 I ran into Regina, whom I hadn’t seen since the end of last semester (she and her husband managed to make it to Spain for their delayed honeymoon), … Continue reading
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Tagged Berlin, bus, coffee, House of Leaves, music, Python, Ruby, Stephen Donaldson, umlaut
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Snow becomes slush / My mind turns to mush
When I arrived at Fair Trade this afternoon shortly before 5p.m. and took a seat along the front window I found a hardcover copy of Stephen Donaldson’s Runes of the Earth (the most recently — I believe — Thomas Covenant … Continue reading
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Tagged 80s fantasy, coffee, House of Leaves, my mom's books, Stephen Donaldson, the author is dead
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Let’s call today Blahday rather than Thursday.
I got up late but not too late. No energy, even after a shower, tea, and cereal. Just no desire to do anything. For another blog I was writing about Goethe’s West-Eastern Divan (a large, beautiful, cycle of poems inspired … Continue reading
It takes all my self-control not to call you lot ‘bloody colonials.’
MySpace, YourSpace, we all space for MySpace … One thing (of many, I assure you) that I dislike about this site is its feeble ‘blogging’ system, in particular its refusal to give me a more ‘advanced’ editor … curiously, the … Continue reading
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Tagged AC/DC, baking, Buffy, House of Leaves, Marburg, Neal Stephenson
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Blurred Visions: Spaces & Places
At least that’s what the free advertising postcard that I’ve been using as a bookmark says on the front. On the back it lets me know that the opening reception — which I missed — was November 3, 6-10pm at … Continue reading
A termite walks into a bar and asks …
“… so, where’s the bar tender?” The lines of the day, courtesy of friends and conversations: “doesn’t get nearly as hot and it lasts a lot longer” “she was mistress of statistical anomalies”