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One Entry Per Day Per Week
adelaides_prose is doing this and I thought, why not me, seeing as I'm gonna have some free time this week...
I will say this: I'm worried about friends on this list right now, really worried.
I am trying to have a laugh or two to keep the weight of my fears from crushing the life out of me.
So, first I post an old favorite, something deep, something ( Read more... ) -
Adios, Coca-Cola
About twenty minutes ago, I ceased to be an employee of Mail Centers Plus ( Read more... ) -
Writer's Block: Don't You Forget about Me
While I love the John Hughes films, in particular The Breakfast Club, Ordinary People would be my favorite.
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Something Creepy to take us into Friday
In high school, I fell in love with 4AD Records. It's an obscure little record label in London, an offshoot of Beggars Banquet that was sort of meant to be "performance artist clearing house" and actually turned out some fantastic fucking bands, in the end. While some artists started on 4AD and went bigger elsewhere, the list of songs that made it ( Read more... ) -
Writer's Block: Birthday Shout-out
I've been reading the last three over and over again, and to me, the most satisfying read is Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. It's sort of a micro-cosm of the entire run, incorporating little detals from all the books before into one big goodbye and god-bless.
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Applicant
I just got back from the Post Office. I applied for a U.S. Passport (expedited ( Read more... ) -
Writer's Block: Firsts
Thoughts On Phantoms, which was about moving into my own apartment after years of living in hotels, or with relatives and friends. -
Good Night and God Bless
When I was a 13 year-old kid, Michael Jackson was cool.
He could outdance, outsing, outthrill (yes, I went there) anyone on the pop music scene. He was the first major star of the MTV generation, when acts like Supertramp and REO Speedwagon-- the monsters of radio-- were unable to compete with good looking upstarts, like Jackson and Madonna.
I ( Read more... ) -
Writer's Block: When I Was Young
Sitting down with my family to watch home movies.
Jesus. I want to cry. I started to say "Halloween" or "Christmas" stuff, but I'd give it all up for the chance to just watch home movies of everyone once in a while and laugh and remember, all together with my immediate family.
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