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Don't Call It a Comeback
capnwatsisname 2.0
The adventure in tangent management continues. -
Admitting Defeat
I am here announcing my retirement. In the sense that Jay-Z is retired from rap and Michael Jordan retired from basketball and Mr. Belvedere retired (in, I can only assume, an episode where he feels that his family no longer needs him and he decides to retire but then they talk him into staying because the series had not yet ended). "36 Cents for ( Read more... ) -
Increase Productivity!
One of the few genuine pieces of literate pretension in my make-up (I pretty much improvise most of my pretension) is a quote I have always remembered, and could produce without notice at any opportune moment: "A writer is working when he is staring out of the window," Burton Rascoe. Not that I ever knew who Burton was, or, for that matter, was I ( Read more... ) -
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You know how when you keep flipping back to ths same channels even though you already know there's nothing on, or how you keep going back to the fridge even though you already know there's nothing in it, or you keep picking up the same magazine even though you know you already read every page? Yeah, that's what this is. -
Pulp My Ride
(For some reason, these pictures of a 20ft tree limb crashed through my back window, and the accompanying article about a huge amount of heatwave related damage done by falling trees in LA and San Fernando Valley, all disappeared about 48 hours after posting. I blame the government. You should have seen it.) -
Play Loudly and Carry a Big Treadmill
I was worried you might not have seen this. -
Myth of Fingerprints
I was reading some brief obits for some dear departed music industrians in Paste, and found it interesting to see the cause of death listed in each case. You may have pioneered the use of somethingernother and been the first suchandsuch of your generation, but you'd better keep your passing simple in order to have room for information about the ( Read more... ) -
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Its 86 degrees.
And raining.
At 10:45pm.
In Malibu, CA.