... my inbox looks like this.


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So here's the thing. We celebrate the miracle of one day's worth of oil magically burning eight days, which hasn't seemed true to me in many years. I stuck with the story in part because I don't know it isn't true -- hey, maybe there are supernatural miracles after all -- and in part because I didn't have a story I liked better -- it's not very ( Read more... )

We thought of captions for this photo:


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My friend and I went to CPK the other day and ended up sitting near a family that had a little girl wearing a ladybug dress! Wings and everything. She had expressions like Shirley Temple ( Read more... )

It snowed on me!

What does "iggle" mean? Giggle jiggle niggle squiggle wiggle wriggle -- related? How about juggle? Gaggle? I guess this is a GGL question. And I bet I could ask someone who actually knows, but I have work to do.

For days

I've been writing an essay about four poems. The first is by Emerson. Emerson, Emerson, EmersonEmersonEmerson my brain hurts.

12 a.m.My brother just made a contribution to the academic dialectic ( Read more... )

In a WORLD
where BIGGER is BETTER
ONE MAN
has a LITTLE
problem ...

I don't know what comes after that. But the sentence is pinballing around in my brain so I might as well get it out. Make room for the things I'm supposed to be thinking.

I can't believe it's over.
I'm leaving O.C. this afternoon.
I'm going home.
Brace for impact.

And that's annoying, on top of all the other things in life that are annoying right now.

So let's just say work is like this: L.A. Times: O.C. Register lays off workers

and also a little like this: LA Observed: Giving the fingerand suddenly, instead of getting punted around the newsroom to look for a free computer, I have my pick of desks. But I ( Read more... )