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[otter_pops]

so i've started to worry about the glaring truth of it: i am matt's ambassador for bullish american tactics no-one in the rest of the free world would think to pull. my evidence

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[bestiame]

i love the arboretum. love love love. i used to go there as a kid just to look at the koi and the bonsai.

[otter_pops]

you're so lucky you grew up near it! i could not believe it, honestly. i've been to the arboretum in boston but it doesn't even come close to this. those koi were astounding. i'm happy that the government didn't do anything rash with the bonsai during world war II - seriously, i wouldn't put it past harry truman. they're amazing and so well preserved.

[bestiame]

i just realized you might enjoy these photos by someone else on my friends list. yay.

[ohnancydrew]

goold old squinty, ha!!! i oughta write you a letter, funny girl.
the bonsai blew me away-i don't think i've ever actually seen anything so perfectly miniature and well-groomed and perfectly perfect. i keep staringggg at them and wishing i could be shrunk to the size of thumbelina and frolic and the only words that are in my brain this moment happen to be "perfectly perfect". bonkers over bonsai.

[otter_pops]

actually it is i! mrs m, who owes you a letter. since you're moving, will you send me your new address? i know what you mean about wishing to be miniaturized! there were so many weird quasi-enchanted things in that arboretum but none as fantastic as the bonsai forests. i have more bonsai pics, i'll post them later.

love squinty.

[ohnancydrew]

ooh, i don't have your email address so i'll just be brave and post it here as you only attract high-caliber people, after all:
4710 university way ne
apt. 312
seattle, wa
98105

love,
mrs. de souza
(ha! it's still very funny to me)

ps-have you read wickett's remedy?

[jeff2001]

Thank you for that. I would totally go there.

I hope you're talking about the Spaghettios with sliced franks. Which are the only true Spaghettios.

[otter_pops]

you're welcome! if you're ever in dc you must. it's unfortunate that it's not near a metro but it's completely worth the trip. it's 400 acres of fantastic autumnal solitude.

i wasn't talking about those! it's funny you mentioned those because i saw the very thing in the grocery store the other day and i was aghast because who could eat anything other than those dinosaur mini-bites? those are the best.

[jeff2001]

You must be under the influence of a malign conjunction, or prodigies in the skies -- but I, as has been widely bruited, am catholic in my tastes and will allow myself to be prevailed upon to sample this delicacy of which you speak.

Oh, hey, you bein' in DC and all -- can you do something about...you know? You W. Know? Plague in an atomizer? Anything?

[karaokefiles]

You are cute.

The crazy-weightlifting-resume guy was in the New Yorker and the Times, but where did I hear about him first? I think you know.

[otter_pops]

thanks :)

karen, i'm glad. i am. i wish i could provide you with links of more substance, but crazy-weightlifting-resume guy is important, too. matt will always ask "hilarie, where do you hear about these things?" and i have to hang my head and say, simply, that i read a lot of shitty blogs and i like to be at the top of the strange freak gossip mill.

[tiltawhirl]

I just now printed out picture #9 of you two and tacked it up in my cubicle!

[otter_pops]

we're in your cubicle! dasflksdf! i adore you, that's so sweet!