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Dear Hipster Pit
Thank you. I feel so much better now. (And thanks, Ramen, for the Gawker link that led me there ( Read more... ) -
Dear Forbes Magazine
Fuck you. Look, I've done social trend reporting, and I know it's tough, but you're a goddamn national magazine with a serious reputation. You can't just print any old piece of shit that (pardon the mixed metaphors) regurgitates hackneyed notions from the 1950s without examining their sources or underlying causes ( Read more... ) -
I knew it!
Today's Sun confirms my old suspicion: It really is this town.
According to data released today by the U.S. Census Bureau, the ratio of men to women in Maryland is among the lowest in the nation, with fewer than 93 men for every 100 women here. Only the District of Columbia and Mississippi have more lopsided gender ratios...I knew it wasn't just ( Read more... ) -
XTREME cough dropping!
So I've had this cough that's prevented me from getting any sleep. It starts and I can't stop it and it hurts like hell and did I mention the no sleep? Last night, at 1 a.m., when it started again, I grabbed a Riccola and sucked down the mentholated goodness, and it helped, allowing me to get back to sleep. But three hours later: hack hack hack. I ( Read more... ) -
Shut up, Proust! Chapter 6: The Fortune Cookie Game
I am so close to finishing this bad boy, but I have at least a couple more tirades left in me, and I want to try to get them out before I reach that magical Page 444. And I think the time has finally come to let cher Marcel speak for himself. Because he does it so eloquently. And yet…
Okay, take this bit from “Place Names: The Name”:
A moment ( Read more... ) -
He likes to pant. Is that so wrong?
Because I've been sick (and because I won't take him out when it gets above the low 90s), my dog Henry hasn't gotten a walk the last couple days, so last night when I got home, I forced myself to take him out. We did about 40 minutes, almost our standard afternoon walk. It was nice out, Hank was happy to be stretching his legs, and once I was out ( Read more... ) -
HATE!!!
It was supposed to be a simple check-up call, done during my lunch hour (since I certainly wasn't going to walk anywhere ( Read more... ) -
Shut up, Proust! Chapter 5: The Proust-Benatar Connection
I know, I know, you'd thought I'd given up on these little ramblings, but no, I have miles to go e'er I sleep. And sleep I do, after a few pages of M. Proust's final chapter. ( Read more... ) -
Okay, well, just one more, I swear
I know I said I was done with the Alaska stories, but this one's been such a hit with everyone I've told it to, I figured I'd pass it along. And it really is a classic ( Read more... ) -
One last note
The day I left Alaska, this was headline of the front-page, above-the-fold story in the Juneau Empire:
Are stray dogs worse than bears?