The other day at the Cubs-Giants game I saw the following message appear on the Jumbotron:
ANDREA, I AM SO SORRY. I AM NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO MAKES MISTAKES. PLEASE CALL ME. LOVE, MIKE
I kind of hope she called him, if only to tell him where he could stick his passive-aggression.
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05:48:43 PM,
Wednesday 14 September 2005
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I feel like I got exponentially more Oakland this weekend. Friday night I went to the Parkway to see Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and last night I went to hear some bands at LoBot. In the meantime I started riding my bicycle up and down Telegraph to get to Damian's house. Now I just need to learn how to knit and get a haircut with gratuitous layers and I'll be so damn Oakland it hurts.
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02:55:00 PM,
Monday 12 September 2005
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Sneezing like an asthmatic lion and might have jury duty tomorrow afternoon. I think this is a justifiable use of sick leave.
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09:04:58 PM,
Sunday 11 September 2005
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Being poor is knowing exactly how much everything costs.
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06:27:40 PM,
Thursday 8 September 2005
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I've been rewatching Firefly episodes lately in anticipation of that Big Damn Movie. I've even started watching them with the commentary tracks -- and let me tell you, the commentary for "Shindig" is excellent. I'm a big Jane Espenson and Jane Austen fan, so I really dug hearing Espenson's commentary on her Jane Austen tribute episode. The costumer's comments were interesting too, especially since she talked about all sorts of set and prop issues as well as about her own work.
But that's not enough Jossage for me, so I listened to the "Once More with Feeling" soundtrack this morning and noticed something neat. On her way to rescue Dawn, Buffy says that her friends can never know what's wrong with her -- and then five minutes later she tells them exactly what she'd sworn she wouldn't tell them. I love those neat inversions that Joss populates his work with.
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02:50:38 PM,
Thursday 8 September 2005
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His Damianic Majesty Requests: I made up a gross-sounding word last night. Want to help me define "minglage"?
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11:25:41 AM,
Wednesday 7 September 2005
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Anybody ever been to a baby shower before? One of my homies is planning one for another of our homies, and I'm helping her out a little. Except I've never been to one, and I'm not sure if she has either. So far we know it's going to be Elvis-themed and we know there are going to be presents involved. Also food, I mean, duh, eating for two (or possibly three!).
I am getting this urge to fashion fetus-size Elvis wigs out of cardboard, but I don't think it's going to help matters any.
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07:49:44 PM,
Friday 2 September 2005
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Stockholm Syndrome and the Patriarchy:
The idea of Stockholm syndrome as the global explanation for women's fervent and irrational attatchment, en masse, to the much more nebulous ideology of male dominance, makes so much sense to me that there's probably something wrong with it. But how else to explain these squads of veiled vice patrols hot-rodding around Kashmir giving hell to swinging singles?
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02:58:14 PM,
Friday 2 September 2005
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Oh dear.
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05:45:21 PM,
Thursday 1 September 2005
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I'm going to be in New York from September 30th through October 4th. Any recommendations for things to do would be greatly appreciated -- I have at least two days on my own to fill up.
So far my list goes like this: Central Park, the MOMA, the Cloisters, and Washington Square (because I like the novel). And I'll probably try to see some of that "Brooklyn" all the kids are moving to these days.
The list has been expanded to include the Met (duh! jesus! how could I forget!) and, at Lizzie's suggestion, sitting in cafes and people-watching. And I'm definitely riding the carousel at the park.
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04:29:36 PM,
Thursday 1 September 2005
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Anyone know a good website for cheap, last-minute international airfare? I think I need a vacation.
EDIT: Thanks for the advice. I am probably going to New York within the next two months, because airfare is cheap, lodging is free (thanks, Melissa!) and I've never been. Wonder if Mirabai likes getting taken out to lunch?
Also, somebody remind me to visit Venice before it's entirely underwater.
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12:04:34 PM,
Wednesday 31 August 2005
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Last night I passed by three people drinking paper bag-covered beverages outside of Church's Chicken. One of them explained to her companion, "I drink because it's legal, it's cheap, and the high lasts longer."
A cogent argument, I thought.
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11:56:17 AM,
Tuesday 30 August 2005
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Yesterday Damian and I stopped by Boontling, a tiny gallery just one block from my house. Some of the pieces in the current show were amazing -- twelve-layer stencil pieces that looked like they'd been done with airbrushes. The gallery seems to be named after the old dialect in Boonville, CA.
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03:09:09 PM,
Monday 29 August 2005
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What did I do?
I just submitted my Peace Corps application, with a leave date of November 2006. Just couldn't stand to be away from all the action.
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07:17:19 PM,
Friday 26 August 2005
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The 19th Amendment is 85 years old today. Hooray for suffrage!
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06:44:24 PM,
Friday 26 August 2005
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Do you currently have painful bunions?
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06:24:53 PM,
Friday 26 August 2005
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Is it braver to do something without feeling fear, or to do something in spite of having to work through the fear?
I'm just wondering how many props to give myself here.
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05:24:50 PM,
Friday 26 August 2005
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Almost there... Almost theeeeerrrrreeee...
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05:23:27 PM,
Friday 26 August 2005
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You know, I don't link to Sumana's column often enough. This week's episode: a humorous tale of mousely invasion
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03:35:19 PM,
Thursday 25 August 2005
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Last night Dames and Dave and I spent about fifteen minutes cooing over these photos. Lizardbaby!
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11:33:06 AM,
Thursday 25 August 2005
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Cool! Degradable plastics, via Treehugger.
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06:18:53 PM,
Wednesday 24 August 2005
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Isn't "Brand New Key" just the cutest song about obsessive unrequited love you ever heard?
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03:57:56 PM,
Wednesday 24 August 2005
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Sumana pointed out Brad DeLong's smackdown of the conclusions reached in another Seth Stevenson travel piece. Seems like Stevenson gets into trouble when he's wrapping up a piece and trying to draw some kind of moral from it. I sure can relate to that -- whenever I get to the end of something I'm writing it's like my vapid platitude generator kicks in.
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12:34:44 PM,
Tuesday 23 August 2005
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Seth Stevenson at Slate contemplates the weight of history.
Frankly, I don't enjoy living in the shadow of history. I don't like to be sitting at a sidewalk cafe, enjoying my coffee, when I suddenly flash on the image of Nazi boots tromping through the intersection. Each time this happens, I feel heavy with meaning and guilt. I can only take it in small doses. Give me some newborn American soil, with its blank slate and empty memory. History may be a nice place to visit, but I'm not sure I want to live there.
I've felt overwhelmed by Europe's history myself, but the "newborn American soil" confounds me. Our soil is soaked in blood. The slate's only blank because we managed to kill most of the people who stood in the way of making this continent our promised land. Is it easier to forget this because there aren't buildings to commemorate it? Or because it's our guilt we'd be remembering?
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12:08:44 PM,
Tuesday 23 August 2005
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My brain is only semi-operational this morning. I mean, the stem part seems to be working fine, but the stuff up by my forehead... oy.
This is what it's thinking about: "Antarctica is a fascinating place to work."
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12:29:09 PM,
Monday 22 August 2005
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What lies before me in all it's shrink-wrapped glory? That's right.
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03:54:59 PM,
Friday 19 August 2005
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Stuffed buffalo ---> stuffalo?
There are some darn loud seagulls outside. They seem to come a bit further inland when it's cold and foggy. When I was a kid they'd show up on the playground on days like this, miles from the delta.
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01:14:27 PM,
Friday 19 August 2005
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Got over that fit rather well. Guess I'll have to keep getting over it 'til I'm over it.
Damian says to write, P.S. I'm the shit.
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03:22:11 AM,
Friday 19 August 2005
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I'm trying to write a recommendation letter extolling the virtues I've demonstrated in doing something that I privately consider worthless.
I don't know -- do I have to turn away from all the things that make me feel like a failure and sort of press on in blind faith? I feel like I have to make whoever reads this believe in what I myself don't believe. Like I have to spin shit to gold.
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12:14:14 AM,
Friday 19 August 2005
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Why is "I can't" the first thing I think? Is it easier to think so? And how many times do I have to prove it wrong before I stop believing it?
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12:01:13 AM,
Friday 19 August 2005
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My mom just called me with an update on the current drama in For Better or For Worse. She's so rad.
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12:41:42 PM,
Thursday 18 August 2005
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Have to write my own recommendation letter. Drat.
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01:57:24 PM,
Wednesday 17 August 2005
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I can't refrain from linking to the winninge entrye, though.
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07:00:54 PM,
Tuesday 16 August 2005
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The Guardian held a contest before the release of Half Blood Prince for the best description of Dumbledore's death in the style of another author. Here's the William Carlos Williams entry -- I laughed out loud.
This Is Just To Say
I have killed
the wizard
who was in
your novels
and whose death
you were probably
saving
for book seven
Forgive me
he had it coming
so beardy
and so old
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06:56:21 PM,
Tuesday 16 August 2005
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I met my upstairs neighbor at 2:30 this morning. He was very apologetic about the noise.
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01:51:29 PM,
Tuesday 16 August 2005
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Cassie said some very nice things about me, which reminded me to read Donne some more and also that everyone on earth thinks I'm Enid from Ghost World :
1. Reply with your name and I'll respond with something random about you.
Sarah makes the best tea.
2. I'll tell you what song/movie/book/fictional character reminds me of you.
Sarah sort of reminds me of Ghost World, were it less bleak. Like, if there were to be a random chorus line of frilled lizards going through Ghost World here and there, and you caught the main character stiffling a giggle and winking at you. And you saw her sort of smirking out the window of the bus, wearing earrings made of little fake plastic hot dogs, at the end.
3. I'll pick a substance to wrestle with you in.
Legitimate angst or something slippier and more hypoallergenic.
4. I'll say something that only makes sense to you and me. Or at least me.
Adieu pikachu.
5. I'll tell you my favorite memory of you.
Sometime your senior year in my room in Pinkey. You spent most of the night sitting on the burgandy bean bag chair and mostly we talked about God.
6. I'll tell you what animal or plant you remind me of.
A fierce, bad rabbit. Or at least, a fierce, naughty, mischievous, but ultimately very moral rabbit.
7. I'll ask you something that I've always wondered about you.
How your tastes, which are largely alien but almost uninterruptedly pleasant to me, were formed.
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01:55:18 AM,
Saturday 13 August 2005
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