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I have three columns due tomorrow, so forgive me if this is a bit light. Already looking forward to next week’s Week of No Official Work, as I burn off some of that accumulated PTO. They were previously known as “vacation days,” but in the relentless need to make everything sound like a machine part [...]
So: I was thinking about the 80s yesterday because I’d watched some of an early 80s sort-of horror / thriller, “Murder by Phone.” People are murdered. By phones. They pick it up, their brain melts, and they’re thrown across the room. Starring John Houseman! Really. He was the go-to guy for corrupted gravitas, playing against [...]
Man, I just don’t want to do anything.Everything is boring. Something is just a diversion from the other thing, which is possibly boring too. I need some highway therapy. Gas up and get on 10 and wander. Soon enough.
But: good day, and good night. New thing: daughter likes to kick around a thin inflated [...]
For some reason the tidal inundation of catalogs seems to have abated this year. It might be due to the economy, still mired in the slough of kreptitude; it could be that some companies took a look at the return rate and said “these guys could not care less about our overpriced, instantly forgettable consumer [...]
I don’t feel old when I think of the 80s, but maybe I should.
First and foremost: today is the day I finally put up the Big Thing I’ve been talking about. Bad news: it’s pretty much the same old thing. Good news: not entirely, and certainly not for long.
I am at [...]
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