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Waterboarding My Brain
Generally around this time of year I get pretty gnarly allergies. I don’t know if it’s the change in location or the combination of my regular seasonal allergies and coming down off the business end of whatever has kept me sick for the past month, but this spring it’s much MUCH worse. I feel like [...]
Resick
From a previous blog:
For the past couple days, I feel a bit like I’ve been in an episode of World’s Scariest Police Chases. Except instead of “scariest” imagine “most painful” and instead of “police chases” think “sore throats.” If there was a show called World’s Most Painful Sore Throats, my episode would only be available [...]
So Here’s My Problem, See…
Me and the ex just had another INCREDIBLE religious argument — MY FAVORITE! More heartbreak on top of being talked down to from a moral high horse? Doesn’t get any better! We like to get in touch every once in a while so she can remind me that she still loves me and would love [...]
Protected: Otto’s Night Out
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So You’ve Seen the Puppy/Cliff Video, Yeah?
In the past 24 hours or so a video of an American soldier in Iraq throwing a puppy off a cliff has gotten a lot of attention online. If you haven’t seen it, I strongly suggest you keep it up. Dead fucking serious.
Now, I’ve been using the internet for a long time — I’ve fucking [...]
A Beautiful Urban Drama!
When I get out of class on Thursdays I like to stop by Rocco’s for an enormous slice of the greasiest pizza on Earth and a $2 mini-pitcher of Pabst. CUZ I CAN. Tonight, a street performer across the street caught my eye, so I took my beer outside to watch this guy do his [...]
Updates, Etc
Performed a bunch of maintenance-type tweaks tonight. All behind-the-scenes type stuff — upgrading Wordpress to the newest version, removing old files and plugins — nothing that changes functionality or appearance. “House cleaning.” Didn’t need to blog, but Wordpress recommends:
Consider rewarding yourself with a blog post about the upgrade, reading that book or article you’ve been [...]
Weekend Wrapup
So aside from shooting photos at the Church of Scientology protest, this weekend the excitement whale breached the surface of my ocean of existence, which in this analogy has been covered by a thick layer of ice representing the boredom of tagging MP3s and trying to find the worst-sounding chord on guitar. Unfortunately, the surface [...]
Trying Too Hard: A Case Study
There’s a column in one of Portland’s many alternative publications, The Mercury, into which anonymous people can send rants and raves. Sometimes the column is entertaining — most often it is not.
I like to think I’m a fairly competent bitcher. A good rant strikes a balance between effectively driving a relevant point home with juuuust [...]
Stupid Me
Coffee Shop Girl: So who are you rooting for today?
Me: ??? You mean on Tuesday?
Coffee Shop Girl: …the Superbowl.
Me: Ohhhhh… I forgot that was coming up.
Haha, honestly wasn’t trying to be smug; I seriously thought she was talking about the primaries, not football. How un-American of me.
Anybody that knows me though knows I’m a Chicago [...]
