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january 16, 2010
24 hour champagne diet



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october 24, 2009
stuntin' like my daddy
must be personal bests at bowling that compel me to write. two weeks ago, i bowled a 215, which i think could have been a few pins higher considering that it was during cosmic bowling (blacklight, smoke machines, and amazing pop songs blasting through the speakers) and our bowling neighbors ...
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april 9, 2009
i got the whips, wheels, diamonds in my grill
for historical purposes, i wanted to put down the following items of note:
  1. i have finally beaten "the adventures of lolo" part III. far, far more challenging than the first two installments.

  2. it's possible i'll totally destroy the high i've been riding at my bowling league tonight ...

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march 31, 2009
my life ain't gonna change tonight
this morning i was flipping through a newsweek that arrived in my mailbox by mistake and read a short article about the columbine high school shooting, now nearly 10 years ago. what caught my attention was that the author of the article, ramin setoodeh, was 16 years old in april ...
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november 5, 2008
nation wins, chicago celebrates
of all the clips from yesterday, this is my favorite. guess what, karl:
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october 28, 2008
anniversary of sorts
while content, however minimal, has existed at this domain for over five years, today marks one year of this website in its current incarnation.

to celebrate this occasion, i've compiled the writing mentioned on the home page on a new writing page. (the piece "i need to know what ...
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october 8, 2008
i do not want a new song to sing
virginia rose kleker
6/17/1977 - 10/8/2008

ginny's family asked me to write and read something for her memorial service. below are those words:




on 10/8 i dug out the picture of ginny above, scanned it, and was planning to use it on this website but ...
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october 1, 2008
we were invincible then
over the weekend i singed my eyelashes lighting a cigarette

sometimes sanity feels like boredom

shoveling snow builds character

being obtuse doesn't make you smart; it makes you an asshole

mystery is not subtlety - though the converse is true

one time in high school i fell asleep wearing jeans ...
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september 10, 2008
anything that seems safe and convenient
august "reclusion month" was a complete success. in the first 26 days i attended 3 social events with a 10 day stretch in there where i left the apartment only for groceries. but i got a lot of work done and projects feel manageable again which was one of the ...
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august 15, 2008
everything viscous
objectivity is just the implicit agreement by a majority that their subjective beliefs are correct. and when there is a majority of one, as in the case of every individual, objectivity and subjectivity become synonyms, and all other words lose meaning. a dictionary of life that is constantly moving the ...
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august 13, 2008
what is my true face, i wonder
visit me in california is available today! written by my excellent friend and writing mentor, cooley windsor, it's an amazing debut collection of short stories. buy it buy it buy it from any number of places (listed below) but also look often at cooley's appearances as he will ...
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july 31, 2008
mental repunctuation of a clue is the key to its solution
a friend of mine recently expressed a desire of hers to backtrack in time and do it all again with anonymity. to be, in her words, a hermit. and i must admit a similar wish of own, at least for the present. in my own words, a recluse - if only ...
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july 26, 2008
i will not do it, in love or in story
my two brilliant friends, alexis brayton and amber dipietra, have published the latest installment of their zine: the blink, issue 2: photos. it's beautiful and handmade and the design (creating two halves connected in the middle with only a table of contents to identify the work) separates each photo ...
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june 25, 2008
especially for women who have that lower pooch sag
working from home allows me the benefit of eating lunch during peak daytime television hours. i just love this commercial for "crunchless abs." the title quotation is located at 0:20:
crunchless abs commercial

also located here on creator linda larue's website at the bottom:
"vanquishing that lower belly ...
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june 17, 2008
platinum inside your jaws
the chicago museum of contemporary art, which i'd never been to before, has free admission on tuesdays, so i thought i'd head over.

contemporary art, at least to me, can feel so arbitrary. looking at something sometimes, and i think really? this is art?

once at the guggenheim ...
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june 13, 2008
san juan freezer
i've been making minor but overdue updates to the site sporadicly over the past few weeks that are now done:

- made better use of django templates so there's less repeated code

- changed the URL structure of the dirt naps from id numbers to /year/month/day/title - but ...
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june 12, 2008
paddy cake paddy cake microwave
my two prior excursions in search of a good local burrito, at taqueria tierra caliente and taco & burrito express #3, were two too cold and too bland, respectively. but the burrito i got from the taqueria inside carnaceria guanajuato was delicious, and is the closest thing to a mission-style burrito ...
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june 9, 2008
keepsake



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june 6, 2008
city amusement tax
humidity today without the heat. the kind of weather where any movement generates sweat and non-movement causes lethargy. i had lunch with friends this afternoon and said, "it feels like it wants to rain. and when it does, all this humidity will go away." and one of my friends said ...
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may 6, 2008
i'm so fresh and fly making money multiply
i've moved into my new chicago apartment. everything's unpacked and neatly stacked on the floor or kitchen table. and so while there's some furniture acquisitions to be made soon, i'm pretty much as settled in as i can be now.

i've got a few boxes ...
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april 15, 2008
quiet little midwestern life
i want to write something articulate, non-self-pitying, and meaningful about having moved back to illinois now nearly a month ago. something that does not quickly spin downward into "woe is me" lamentations about the missing of friends, the absence of the familiar, and the loss of routine - because this website ...
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march 28, 2008
always underground
since returning to illinois, i had the strange desire to find a particular photo of my father and i assembling a lego castle i received one christmas morning. i cannot say why finding this photo was important to me nor how it crept back into my memory (versus all the ...
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march 18, 2008
long-awaited coronation
i discovered this almost two weeks ago but wanted to wait to see if it would hold:

i'm finally #1 in an unquoted google search of my own name.

(sorry, dominick bruno, you sometimes actor, the crown is mine!)
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march 6, 2008
no more day job
i've been meaning to implement a simple, javascript pop-up for viewing an image for a while now; i just have; and couldn't think of a better one to post as the first:


me and mike w. in helsinki, finland in 2002


ps. i guess i love posting on ...
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february 9, 2008
you can bet that
am going to get to the point soon, but wanted to mention today is the first glorious "summer" day in the bay area. walked to the grocery store and everybody's out. saw some tai chi in the panhandle right next to some kids playing on a pile of rocks ...
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february 6, 2008
emotion incubator group
right now this is going to be jumble of thoughts...

yesterday i discovered that the world wide web consortium (w3c - a group of professionals who work to develop web standards) has started the emotion incubator group (emoxg) with the mission of creating a general-purpose emotion markup language.

this is incredible ...
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january 6, 2008
hungry, hungry hippocampus
my mother asked me what i wanted for christmas.

i said, "anise cookies."

she said, "anise cookies."

i said, "yeah, cookies with anise in them."

she said, "i never made anise cookies."

i said, "i know. i think these were store bought."

and over the phone i heard the exhalation ...
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november 17, 2007
wake up and smell the 90s
what i mean is this: the person we thought we were, the person we really were, the person we are now, the person we think we are, the person we will be, and the person we want to become. those six sides to life's cube, the die that we ...
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november 3, 2007
muni maps by helena keeffe
about a month ago, when riding on muni, i noticed some peculiar posters perched up along the sides. besides the normal fare of human trafficking awareness, homelessness advocacy, and the now common place "i thought he was a great guy until he raped me" posters were some new ones depicting ...
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october 28, 2007
my most favorite sentence
of all the sentences i've written over my entire lifetime and even (perhaps particularly) over the past 10 years or so when i've really started to pay attention to the words, this is my most favorite of all of them:

"it would ease in your understanding of me ...
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