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30 Sep 2008

Devilled eggs too

I just wrote a song about what’s happening at work right now. The chorus goes like this:

Do you smell it?
It is sausage!
Do you smell it?
Summer sausage!

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27 Sep 2008

I really need to learn to save

You know, I really hate that the control keys for new tab and reload are right next to each other. That’s an extremely lengthy post you’re not going to get to read because I wanted to check the spelling of chana masala. My wrist hurts too damned much to type it again tonight, and I’ll […]

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24 Sep 2008

interactivity

Philos takes exception to my use of the term “solidly passive” to describe music, objecting that any passivity in music (and in any art form) is specific to particular works, and not inherent in the form itself. He is entirely right, of course. The use of the phrase “solidly passive art forms” to describe film […]

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15 Sep 2008

Dear Ike,

I want to say thank you. That windstorm you sent through last night? Very impressive. No power for a week? Heck of a job. Most hurricanes are pretty selfish with their affections and don’t send any love as far inland as Ohio, but you just kept going, didn’t you. I want you to know I […]

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5 Sep 2008

the whole sad single-person culture

High Fidelity failing the Bechdel test is at least half the point, whether its creators know that or not (and I think, given John Cusack’s general awesomeness and Stephen Frears’ other movies, they probably do). High Fidelity the film is about a group of self-centered, stuck manchildren. The film knows this is what they are.
There […]

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