Month: August 2011
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pre-GTOTMW
Note to future self: When attending Great Taste of the Midwest Pre-Party, do not attempt to eat a hamburger that’s bigger than your head. Really, that thing must have weighed a half-pound at least, and they piled cheese, onion rings and two strips of bacon on top of it. Realizing my mistake, I ate just… Read.
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youth
Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth. Oh, never mind. You will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they’ve faded. But trust me. In twenty years you’ll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can’t grasp now how much possibility lay before you. Read.
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mine
Like the rest of the photos in the Great Big Photo Album of People Who Might Be Related To Me But I Don’t Know How, this one isn’t dated and there are no names or notes scribbled on the back. Still, I might actually know what’s going on here. My mother had an aunt everybody… Read.
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buster
I don’t think I’m related to Buster Keaton. Maybe. But I don’t think so. One in a series of photos from a great big album I inherited from my Mother, full of snapshots of people who may or may not be related to me. I have no idea who these people are. I don’t think… Read.
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proposal
From the Great Big Photograph Album of People Distantly Related to Me but I Don’t Know Who: I think they’re play-acting. There’s a lot of photos of people play-acting in the Great Big Photo Album Etc. Sometimes they’re obviously play-acting on a stage, but sometimes they’re standing around in a house, or on a back… Read.
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nerd dream
I was crouching on the very edge of a raw metal deck plate with my arms straight out on either side of me, reaching just far enough to hold on to the struts that were the only things connecting the deck plates to the ship. With the main engines running at full throttle my feet… Read.
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fix
I spent yesterday fixing a book case. I didn’t plan to. It was just one of those things. I happened to walk past it, looked up at the top and noticed that it had walked about an inch from where I wedged it against the ceiling about a year ago. This was no ordinary book… Read.
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precip
Here’s how you make it rain: You dig up all the onions in your garden and lay them out to dry in the sun for a day or two. The amount of rain you get will be inversely proportional to how much tender loving care you have bestown upon your garden. When growing onions in… Read.
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bloated
Started off as such a good night … After work, we stopped by Star Liquor to pick up some cool, refreshing libations for the weekend, then swung over a couple blocks to visit the Old Sugar Distillery for a snort before heading home. My Darling B was delighted to learn they were now distilling a… Read.
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hush
The neighborhood was mostly quiet during my early morning walk, even though I hit the snooze button and slept in ten minutes beyond the time I normally get up. Although the sky was brightening from gray to blue, it was still practically night. The only bird up and at ’em was a lone cardinal singing… Read.
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