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we won't lose tara. (carol burnett version...)
so it's official: we're furloughed every first and third friday of the month for the next 18 or so months. which translates into a 10% pay cut, but also into the equivalent of an extra weekend each month. as long as there's adequate consideration given to workload and deadlines, one can only really grumble under one's breath. we do still have ( Read more... ) -
aubergine
an aubergine should wear a hat
and be saluted when they pass
should ETs ever make the scene
take them to your aubergine -
young radiolarians
andrew bird's new double album Noble Beast/ Useless Creatures came in the mail today. Useless Creatures (the instrumental album) is magnificent- Hot Math is worth the price of the whole thing all by itself. i'm sure Noble Beast will grow on me- there was a cut i loved immediately (Tenuousness) and the lyrics to some of the others are stunning. ( Read more... ) -
for the foodies
out on a "date" last night to celebrate my birthday. on the spur of the moment, we decided to try Ruth's Chris steakhouse - an upscale place serving down-home food. we didn't have reservations, so the wait (even on a thursday evening) was annoyingly long, but they brought us complementary hors-doovers (osso bucco ravioli YUM) while we waited. ( Read more... ) -
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Hellava show last night. the warm-up band Filthy Thieving Bastards www.myspace.com/filtythievingbastards gave us Pogues-esque Irish Bar Punk, all strangely to the same beat. Then X www.xtheband.com/, the original lineup reunited and crankin'. John Doe looks at least 20 yrs younger when he rocks out. Billy Zoom and DJ Bonebreak were just having ( Read more... ) -
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you can hear it coming for you; nasal explosions ricochet across the cubes, other explosions in the stalls of the ladies' room. the weather's changing, and the viruses of fall ride out in their hordes across offices all over this town. someday, you suspect, there's going to be a really bad one. archaeologists of the future will unearth vast ( Read more... ) -
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opinions solicited:
what should I get myself for my birthday?
a) bolt of silk from Dharma to dye & sew
b) new pair of doc martens' boots
thank you -
Opportunity
Well, yesterday was one of those wonderful “opportunity for learning” days. We’d just gotten one of the kitchen cabinets we’re building together (for the third time- surely *this* time correctly) when we noticed that a major piece had been installed backwards. So Kenn was in the living room disassembling the thing and cussing softly under his ( Read more... )