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The Joyless Deathmarch of Enslaved Machinery
On September 20, 2011 · 51 Comments · In Advertising, Architorture, Comic Sins, Matchbooks, Mpls: history, The Forties, The Thirties
When I went to the sheriff’s office to pick up some documents, I passed the cafe in City Hall. Never seen it before; I’d always thought everyone ate downstairs in the big cafe under the plaza, but the waterfall. (Note to designers of the future: even if the windows face a waterfall, people still know [...]
Any day that begins with a call from the Sheriff is either going to get better or worse, with no in-between. Better if it’s nothing, worse if it’s, you know, Sheriff stuff. My wife found a card in the door when she went out to get the paper. It had been left the day [...]
Unremitting gloom all morn. Inauspicious start for August, and if there’s ever a month you could use “inauspicious” for, I suppose it would be August. No, July as well. Both named after men who probably had no belief whatsoever in auspices, and were also the heads of the state religion.
Every religion looks peculiar from [...]
Hit the halfway point on the novel tonight. The characters left the office to meet a source in the police department, and I had no idea where they were going until they turned into the Minnesotan Hotel, and I had no idea the narrator’s father was a bricklayer until the narrator mentioned that his father [...]
Hey! Cold, overcast, but not a lot of rain. So that’s an improvement. In the evening I went outside, in a jacket, and smelled the woodsmoke of a neighbor’s fire, heard the announcer down at the athletic field calling a game, and it was just the sort of homey Fall evening you look forward to. [...]
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