2009
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Guilt
“If I miss writing a day, ‘cause I write every day, Sunday, holidays, birthdays, deaths, everything, I write. About 500 words. And, if I don’t do it, I feel very, very, very guilty. […] But if I write, and even…
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“…born of nameless nightmare parents”
“My father was consumed by my mother as soon as he had fertilized her and she, in her turn, was eaten by myself at my birth. That is my first memory, as it happens. Squirming my way out of my…
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Dressing the Yellow Chicken
Most of these images are lantern slides, and all were found at the flickr page of the Oregon State University Archives:
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #16
AVATAR ★★★★★ (3 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Avatar.
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Notable SF, This Week: 12/28-01/03
This week in San Francisco, experience music the old fashioned way at Shellac Shack and the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra’s free home show. Also plans for New Year’s Eve and New Year’s day: Monday 12/28: Remember vinyl? Stop by Shellac…
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The January Monthly Rumpus
The Rumpus proudly presents: Welcome Back January 11 at The Makeout Room, 3225 22nd Street, 7pm. Get Advance Tickets! Click Here! Featuring authors Michelle Tea, D. A. Powell, Elissa Bassist, Daniel Nester, and Allison Hoover Bartlett. Music by MC Lars.…
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Notable New York, This Week 12/28/09-1/03/10
This week in New York The Poetry Project holds its 36th Annual New Year’s Day Marathon Benefit Reading, Ludacris and Sandra Bernhard perform, 92Y hosts a New Year’s Hustle Bash, swing takes Manhattan at the Holiday Swing Ball and at…
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Kyle Kinane’s I’m Dead and It’s All My Fault #17
I’m a volunteer fireman, Doug. I just show up where I can when I can, you know? Well, I assume the training is voluntary as well. I’m not gonna waste a whole afternoon listening to some guy tell me that…
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Morning Coffee
Welcome Back. Check out this sweet door. NY Times brings you the most commonly stolen books. In utero animals, kinda gross, kinda adorable! New Scientist looks back at a year of prehistoric monsters. Hella meta: Metafilter brings us a gallery…
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Malcolm Gladwell, James Wood, and Christine Smallwood Get Evangelical
At a recent n+1 panel discussion, Malcolm Gladwell, James Wood, and Christine Smallwood discussed God as trade, unmetaphysical writers, and intellectualism versus how religion makes you feel.