Category: daily drivel
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bonus day
The first films of the Wisconsin Film Festival will be shown tonight. We’ll see two of them, then we’re both off all day tomorrow, as well as all of next week, to attend the rest of the festival. In all, we’ll spend almost sixty hours in the dark watching 28 films. My Darling B took… Read.
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kaboom
The animals are running from Yellowstone! Fleeing! Just like they did before the earthquake! And before the tsunami! It can only mean that the supervolcano underneath is gonna blow! And government scientists are covering it up! The same scientists, maybe, who’ve been trying to tell everyone for thirty or forty years that we’ve got to stop crapping up… Read.
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Talk is cheap
“Where do you suppose this idiotic idea that money is the same as speech came from, anyway?” Rolls her eyes. “From people with money. Duh.” Read.
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discipline
WEB DuBois in a letter to his daughter, Yolande: Don’t shrink from new experiences and custom. Take the cold bath bravely. Enter into the spirit of your big bed-room. Enjoy what is and not pine for what is not. Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.… Read.
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getting started
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walkies
Just got back from my evening walk around the neighborhood. If you were considering for even a moment being impressed by how active I keep myself, don’t be. I’ve been so inactive this winter that I could probably be reclassified from animal to vegetable, probably even mineral. In fact, as soon as I got home… Read.
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before
Oh yeah. Totally. Read.
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thaw
It seems my incantation to end winter came two days too early. Yesterday was frigid, temps never getting much above freezing, and the day I commanded winter to cease and desist was almost as bad. This morning, though, brings forty-degree temps and the promise of even warmer weather over the weekend. I might have to… Read.
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toast
I haven’t been warm all day. I’m usually just fine in my button-down Oxford but today it’s failed me. Today I started out just a mark short of warm enough and somehow never managed to put enough coal on the grate to get the boilers up to full steam. Whatever metaphor’s wrong with me today,… Read.
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end time
It’s official: this is the last day of winter. There will be no more winter after today. I won’t permit it. Don’t even ask. We’re done. Ain’t gotta do winter for a while. Finito. Happy days are here again. Warm weather will now prevail. I’m getting a new thermometer and I’m gonna saw off the… Read.
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