Month: January 2011
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The City of Lights and Massages
I got in the cab after no line at all in front of McCarran airport, a first, even when I came out to Vegas a few weeks after 9/11, when people in rural Arkansas thought the Taliban would probably fly an Airbus into their grain silo Any Day Now. The roller bag and new camera…
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40
I am 40 today. Actually, at the very minute this blog post is made (10:53 CST), 40 years ago, I was born at Grand Forks Air Force Base, North Dakota. 40 years. 40 god damned years. I don’t believe that. I mean, my body feels like I’m 80 most mornings, but I feel like I…
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I do not need to buy a pitching machine. I do not need to buy a pitching machine.
I almost bought a baseball pitching machine yesterday. Well, not really, but I sat in this sporting goods store in Emeryville – Sports Annex or Sports Center or Sports Fucker or something, I pass by it every time I go to Taco Bell, but I never go in there. Actually, I went in there once…
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Amateur radiology and faceless examples
I have a printout of some random PDF that illustrates twelve stretching exercises I am supposed to do to prevent repetitive stress injury. I never do them, because I always forget, but that’s not the point. The point is, the people illustrated have no faces. They have ears, and you can tell from the side…
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Assault on the Aerie of the Asbergers
We went out yesterday for lunch at this Burmese place (which was thankfully not renamed a Myanmarian place which would completely screw up the GPS, which would probably tell us to drive 5,427 miles on I-90, take three left turns, then drive 5,426 miles in the other direction) and I can’t tell you much about…
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I’d hate to be a piece of furniture in Steve Ballmer’s office this week
The Mac App Store launched Thursday, and Herman Miller stock went up two points in anticipation of all of the chairs Steve Ballmer has probably been throwing at people this week. There’s no way the sweaty-pitted Microsoft CEO isn’t beating his middle managers like red-headed step-children after the news came out that people downloaded a…
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The Satanist’s Guide to Green Investing, Second Edition
One of my new year’s resolutions is to get a reality show of mine picked up on the upcoming motorized combative sports channel that Viacom is trying to get off the ground in 2012. I’ve been reading all of these bullshit Syd Field books, and trying to figure out this new Mac software package ScreenFuckerPro,…
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2010 in books
In 2003, I made a list of every book I read that year. I haven’t done this since for a few reasons, although laziness is the biggest one. Also, I don’t read as much as I should, and these lists are never accurate. It’s like every top-100 record list by rock snobs that have Captain…
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2010, we hardly knew ye
2010 has come to a close, and I am getting a slow trickle of end-of-year letters and holiday cards in the old fashioned paper format, both things I always wish I would do, except I think about them roughly two days before xmas and all of my postal addresses are years out of date and…