Month: July 2011
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The Other Cairo and Internet Archaeology
I took the standard drive-to-Florida Disney vacation when I was twelve, and I’d been to a bunch of the plains states by then: Missouri, Iowa, the Dakotas, Wisconsin. But in the summer between my junior and senior year of high school, my dad took us on our first big trip out of the Midwest, this…
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New Glass
I bought a new monitor recently, mostly because I was able to partially subsidize it with points from my Amazon card, which I now use to pay for absolutely everything in this mortal world, except for the couple of things I can’t pay using a Visa card. I’ve been using the same ViewSonic monitor since…
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Name a candy mentioned in a Husker Du song
The hardest part about not writing here for a long period of time is that when I come back, it can take me days or even weeks to type the first paragraph or even the first sentence in an entry, because I get that writer’s block/paranoia that comes from constantly re-evaluating why I do this.…
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Changing Gears
I haven’t been writing. Probably haven’t put word to paper in at least two weeks. Normally, this would have me freaking the fuck out, going to see shrinks, getting pills, doing exercises, buying books, studying courses, dissecting plot and premise and buying a flashcard system with 20-sided dice and spinners and software designed to Specifically…