Gimp

18May06

That last post about never forgetting such pain? That may not be a problem, as I think I have permanently injured myself. I swear to god, I am limping around like someone has taken a crowbar and smashed my thigh bones. Which is sort of exactly what it feels like is going on in my [...]

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May I never forget such pain

18May06

Some annoying bird woke me up with its shrieks this morning at about 7. My thoughts instantly snapped from throwing rocks out my window toward the trees to the searing pain in my thighs. I'm not talking soreness, I'm talking excruciating pain I have never felt before. I couldn't bend my legs without cursing and [...]

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The burn is fully felt

18May06

There is nothing quite so humiliating as standing in front of a fit and intense young man as he asks you to squat and lift and thrust in small doses you would at any other time consider manageable and reasonable, your muscles shaking uncontrollably from the strain of lifting your own blubbery body weight and [...]

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I am not ‘polite company’

13May06

Co-worker No. 1: I wonder if Pau (Gasol) will be at that game.Co-worker No. 2: I doubt it. I think he’s come down with … something I can’t name in polite company.Me: Syphilis?

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Dance, monkeys, dance!

12May06

Andrew Sullivan linked to this YouTube video of women in burkas trying to eat spaghetti:
Sully didn’t imply that it was hilarious, so I’ll let him off the hook. But the jokester who set the scene to music and compared it to Lady and the Tramp, woo, what a sharp comedian he/she must be.
Dr. Rusty [...]

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I didn’t intend to post anything tonight

12May06

…but I gotta ask some serious questions/make some random observations that occurred to me after a glass of wine and a couple of episodes of House Hunters.
1. When did Blogger start using comment permalinks? Very cool. If they’ve been doing this all along, I’ve never noticed it in all my years of blogspot perusal. I [...]

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Save Burke’s!

11May06

From Downtown Books:
Burke’s Bookstore, that fine old establishment, is in trouble, financially. They recently sent a letter out to their client list asking for help and “cash donations”. In the letter, they blame superstores, 9-11 and the internet for decreased sales.
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Bookselling is hard work. The image of the doddering old bookman who smokes a pipe [...]

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My pig, myself

10May06

Eat me.
So, this little test tells you what kind of personality you have. Kind of like handwriting-ology or whatever, only with barnyard animals.
Turns out I:
Am a realist.Am direct, and enjoy playing devil’s advocate and neither fear nor avoid discussions.Am emotional and naive, and care little for details and am a risk-taker.Am secure, stubborn, and stick [...]

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I’m scared

10May06

In my last post, I jokingly linked to Prussian Blue’s website. You remember them, don’t you? The cute-as-kittens little girls who sing white supremacist songs? Yeah, they had their 15 minutes a few months ago. Anyway, I was bored and decided to follow the link to see what those little racist scamps were up to, [...]

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My crackery 2 cents

10May06

There’s apparently a bit of a dust-up going on over whether or not disliking rap means you’re racist. The scapegoat amid the kerfuffle is Stephin Merrit of the Magnetic Fields.
First of all, some full disclosure: I like the Magnetic Fields. However, Merritt does seem like a jerk from the interviews I’ve read. Some artists [...]

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