Category: entertainment
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choo-choo
I bought a diesel engine choo-choo at the train show last weekend and it’s taken me until tonight to finally put it on the track and run it back and forth. With that lack of commitment I have to ask myself: Do I really deserve this? But after listening to that engine purr and watching… Read.
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broken
I’ve just come home from my annual trip to the Madison model train show, where I was doing a pretty good job of sticking to my promise to myself not to spend a lot of dough in spite of all the tempting toys. In a room as big as two football fields, I found a… Read.
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chimp
Trunk Monkey is awesome. Read.
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santorum
“I had some porn, and I swore. This weird witch gagged me. My old burrito princess had a teepee, and we’d go vomit in two different food stair wells in the Americas. In between then, we’d surf!” “And this orange was just sitting there for me — for me to take it out and lunch… Read.
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istanbul
While tinkering away at something in my basement lair last week, I was listening to swing music on Pandora when I heard the familiar melody of Istanbul not Constantinople, not as I knew it, a pop music celebration on fiddle and accordion by They Might Be Giants, but a swinging saxophone arrangement by Ken MacIntosh.… Read.
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homebodies
We didn’t go anywhere for dinner tonight. We stayed in, ate salad with slices of foccacia dipped in olive oil and some nice gouda cheese on the side, and listened to the governor give the state of the state address. “Why do you want to listen to that?” I asked My Darling B. “You know… Read.
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pea
Cutest little car I’ve ever seen. I want one. Read.
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improve
I’ve spent the morning and part of the afternoon making a few improvements around the house, starting with the book cases in the extra room. It used to be Tim’s room, but we’ve been using it as an office. That’s a highfalutin way of saying we put a desk in there that’s been buried under… Read.
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airborne
Zombie on a plane! How come nobody’s made that movie yet? A guy gets mugged on his way to the airport and, unbeknownst to him and everyone on the place, the zombie apocalypse has just begun. Even though the mugger manages to drag the guy to the ground and bite him the guy manages to… Read.
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werdz
Robert Plant is such an atrociously bad singer that I had no idea Whole Lotta Love was such a filthy, dirty song until I heard this version of it by Those Darn Accordions. Absolutely lascivious. Here, listen to it yourself: Read.
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