Category: play
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crash
I broke my new coffee toy this morning. I caught a bad case of butter fingers while I was washing the dishes and dropped a cocktail shaker into the dish pan which, unfortunately, was where the upper globe of the vacuum coffee maker was waiting to be washed off. Caved in one whole side of… Read.
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subterrainian
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bellini
Last Friday was the thirteenth! It was the thirteenth, and we didn’t realize it until after we were both at work! WHERE WERE WE GOING TO EAT? Back in January, 2006, we started a tradition of eating a really good dinner at a really nice place on Friday the thirteenth, when we decided, on a… 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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vaculator, franken puss
My newest coffee-making gadget, a coffee siphon, came in the mail today. After cleaning it up I couldn’t just let it sit there, so I loaded it up with a couple scoops of freshly-ground coffee, put it on the front burner, cranked up the heat and kept one eye on it while My Darling B… Read.
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honesty
The most honest thing I’ve read all day is the nutrition label on a roll of Necco wafers. That depends, of course, on whether you accept the premise that a roll of Necco wafers can be said to have any nutritional value at all. “Serving Size: 1 roll,” it said. That’s as baldly honest as… Read.
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towering
There are five books in a teetering tower on top of my bedside book case. I think of these as the books I’m currently reading, even though I’m only really reading one of them right now: Empire of the Summer Moon. Before my birthday came along I was reading a dozen or so pages each… Read.
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heaven
This is the library of the Shiba Ryotaro Memorial Museum in Higashi Osaka, Japan. I want to live there for the rest of my life. Photo from the article in the blog Architect Day about the architect Tadao Ando, who designed the library. Read.
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