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It’s a sad fact, but true: no matter how magnificent your backup strategy, or how elegantly organized your computer is, no one gives a tin krep. At best they’ll be impressed for 3 or 4 seconds, and then there’s either pity or envy. No better proof of virtue being its own reward. Except for helping [...]
How to be suspicious at Target: Before you leave the house, check to see if you’re looking creepy. Gaunt? Leaning forward? Edgy? Shifty-eyed? Good. Now put on a baseball cap over your long hair, and off you go. Next step: when you get inside – and I assume you’ve parked your strange ugly brown Seventies [...]
The Bison Presentation was a complete success. Every possible aspect of the bison’s life was answered in my daughter’s speech, as evidenced by the fact that not one peer in the 5th grade had a question afterwards. I think that says it all. Also, they were two minutes late for recess.
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I’m having trouble calling up the site tonight, so I don’t know if I’ll even be able to post. It’s as if the site is infected with turkey-valium, and cannot rouse itself to display an admin page. Takes ten minutes to try to post an image, so I’m loading in the code and crossing my [...]
I started to watch “The Big Parade” last night – it’s a silent film, the top grosser until “Gone with the Wind.” Featured John Gilbert. WW1 Drama. Robert Osbourne on TCM set it up nicely, and I settled in with that warm feeling of self-regard you get when you’re watching something like this. I’m the [...]
Picked up Chinese food after karate class. The tireless guy at the counter – it’s his shop, he’s always there – pointed to my book and said “Titanic?”
I looked at the cover, and couldn’t figure out how he got Titanic out of a picture of a guy standing in a saloon. “No, it’s about [...]
It’s a cool May so far, and looks to stay that way for a week. I’d rather have it the other way around: normal April, warmish May; this feels like a cheat, a joke, and a cruel one at that.
But. A fine day, even if it had a meeting. A meeting with many stakeholders. [...]
Got a flier in the mailbox today from a lawn-service company called “Hortilawn,” and spent a good five hours off and on trying to come up with a paraphrase of the famous Dorothy Parker quip. Couldn’t do it. I wonder if she deployed that witticism on the spot, or crafted it in private and waited [...]
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I do not think it was the sequel to “Sunrise” – it was released in 1924. But: “Sunrise,” in 1927, was subtitled “A song of two humans.” IMDB says no copies are known to exist.
The ad survived, [...]
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