Archive for the ‘true life 2006’ Category
Friday, March 9th, 2007
Alas, I'll be missing the opening at the Warehouse tonight, but I've had this in my drafts file since January 30th so now seems like a good time to post it: dcist exposed. One of my oldest and dearest, the excellent Samer Farha, has a great photograph in the ...
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Sunday, December 24th, 2006
You have your family rituals, we have ours. Ours include watching the first three Vacation movies because, let's be frank, we are the Griswolds. It's the primary reason we no longer travel in a pack.
I'd forgotten until we reached the apex of the series, Christmas Vacation, that it's a squirrel ...
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Wednesday, December 6th, 2006
I hate shopping during the run-up to Christmas so very much. And it seems to start now on Halloween, but it doesn't get truly horrific until The Friday.
I will go to great lengths to avoid stores, especially Target, between Thanksgiving and the new year. That means making a pre-thanksgiving ...
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Friday, December 1st, 2006
This year I have nothing profound to say about World AIDS Day, other than that it's profoundly sad that we continue to need to have a World AIDS Day.
I was, nevertheless, going to have a wack at it, because, well, it seemed like the thing to do. ...
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Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006
Husband tells me that's not in the Bible. I tell Husband he clearly has the wrong translation. If he doesn't want to sing along, well, that's just his problem.
Martha loves me, this I know
For the Bible tells me so.
Excellent recipes to her belong
We are weak, but she is strong. ...
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Tuesday, November 21st, 2006
It's a rare and special day (or in this case week) when I can't find words to adequately describe something, but the extraordinary creepiness of huggable (cremain) urns is just one of those products that stops me short. (Thanks for the link go to Matt, although I'm not sure "thanks" ...
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Sunday, November 12th, 2006
The Sunday Source section of the Washington Post has their obligatory yearly article about National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo).
An online piece accompanying the article is a list of some Soon-To-Be Famous First Lines from local novels in progress. There are a lot of good ones, but since mine is ...
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Tuesday, November 7th, 2006
I could post about Virginia politics, but I really don't have one ounce of energy left to devote to ranting about Macaca Goldstein, the Marriage Amendment, or, well, any of it, anymore. (In case you're concerned: Macaca's ok for a Jew, I have been assured by some of ...
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Monday, November 6th, 2006
Despite recent posting evidence to the contrary, I'm the last person to suggest that life is anything like the movies. Nevertheless, I must describe the day's events because even I thought them a little too cleverly and conveniently plotted.
I ventured out of doors today (which is, in itself, newsworthy) ...
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Sunday, November 5th, 2006
I have a confession to make: earlier this year I murdered Sven. In cold blood. In our house. In our basement. In the bathroom, to be precise.
I think Sven now haunts our basement. I should probably have put a little Day of the Dead shrine down there.
In my own defense, ...
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