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Out of Context Ad Challenge

November 4th, 2009 Lileks 64 comments

One word. One man. One image. Ah, but what is this an ad for? Yes, it’s an ad, not a public service announcement.

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Friday! October 30

October 30th, 2009 Lileks 59 comments

There is a Diner today. Can’t let Halloween go by without a Diner. I haven’t done any for a while for two simple reasons: life got busy, and –
Well, first the Busy part. I’m now firmly seated in the new schedule, and I am starting to exhale. As long as I can nap, it’s [...]

Thursday, Oct. 29

October 29th, 2009 Lileks 65 comments

Thursday already? Well, YES. That was a stupid question. Or not: I’ve found that days are smearing together as never before. They’re busier. And I get less done.
But Thursday is still the hell-day on which all duties bear down, and Friday still has its standard release, unchanged through the years. It all comes down [...]

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Friday! October 16

October 16th, 2009 Lileks 41 comments

Daughter today on the way as we got in the car:
“Hey Dad have you heard that in 2012-”
“It’s nonsense.”
“It is?” She was relieved. “But the Mayans say it’s the end of the world.”
“How would they know?”
“They had a calendar and everything and it doesn’t go after 2012.”
“I got your school calendar today in the mail, [...]

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Wednesday, Oct. 07

October 7th, 2009 Lileks 50 comments

The weather has unmoored us all. The rain feels like snow in beta form. It’s dank and dim and mean and far too early for this. After I dropped off daughter at choir practice tonight I drove to the video store to return the DVDs wife & child had rented, then went to the post [...]

Wednesday, Sept. 30

September 30th, 2009 Lileks 28 comments

Turned on the Goofy Machine today. Reminded me that I have to bleed the pipes, or something, because the Goofy Machine should not be called that; a “boiler” or “furnace” is the usual term. But when the heat goes on the pipes make a sound I can only describe as GAWRSH. Loud, swooshy, like a [...]

Wednesday, Sept. 23

September 23rd, 2009 Lileks 54 comments

Not saying this is iron-clad science or anything, but my child hurled four times in the night after getting the nasal flu spray. Make that flu vaccine spray. I hope. I don’t remember specifying. She missed the bus, of course, and I phoned in an absence. The recorded voice asked you to specify flu-like symptoms, [...]

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Hello Dali

July 19th, 2009 Lileks 34 comments

For years I’ve been indifferent to musicals  – except for “West Side Story,” “American in Paris,” “Singin’ in the Rain” and the big 30s Warner Brothers Busby Berkeley productions. The other night I was watching “Zeigfeld Follies,” a 40s MGM feature, and I realized I was enjoying it on two levels: one, as an example [...]

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