February 2012
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Feb 7th
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Feb 7th
WatchWatch
The bubbling mud pots near Niland, CA. A geothermal wonder! Right on the San Andreas fault, the earth’s inner heat seeps out. Freaky!
Feb 7th
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Feb 7th
Feb 7th
Feb 7th
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Feb 2nd
January 2012
6 posts
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December 2011
14 posts
Dec 26th
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Dec 23rd
nora borealis: THINGS THAT ARE GOING TO DRIVE ME... →
noraborealis: people who say “i wrote a blog” when they mean that they wrote a blog post. the words “hehe” typed by adults. it’s haha. open-faced sandwiches. ugh. give me two fucking pieces of bread. sweaty armpits and cold hands. get it together, body temperature. the use of hashtags in facebook… Making mental note to avoid Nora’s desk at work to tell her about my blog....
Dec 23rd
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Lucky Dog.
If I could only find something to pack this in, someone is going to find this in their mailbox. Circa 1936 from the collection of the incomparable Uncle Billy. It’s time to let it go.
Dec 13th
Dec 12th
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Emotional Contagion
The name for my new band. Don’t steal it.  Seriously, that’s a real scientific term which I heard about on an NPR article on Science Friday. 
Dec 9th
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Dec 9th
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Dec 5th
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Errol Morris Interviews Stephen King - NYTimes.com →
Could a mash-up get any better? Errol Morris + Stephen King = worlds colliding.
Dec 5th
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Dec 4th
November 2011
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October 2011
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You're never too old to miss your mother.
One thousand and ninety five days. You finally stop dialing her phone number to see if she still hates George W. Bush. Or ask her if she’s going to enter the State Fair Art show again. Or see if she wants to meet at The Modern for dinner. Or how about another trip? Just the girls again. You hear that Paris is pretty nice in the fall.  Or tell her you’re sorry for all the stupid...
Oct 17th
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Oct 7th
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September 2011
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Sep 22nd
August 2011
7 posts
Aug 28th
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Aug 28th
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Jerry Lieber, RiP
Jerry Lieber, lyricist, died today. He was 78. He and composer, Mike Stoller, wrote big hits for Elvis, the Drifters among others. Remember, “Hound Dog?” Well, they wrote it for Big mama Thornton and her 1953 rendition simply knocks Elvis on his ass. I do love this little excerpt from the NY Times obit: “The earlier market of swing and Frank Sinatra and Peggy Lee and Duke ...
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July 2011
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Jul 28th
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Jul 21st
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Jul 20th
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Family matters.
from “Delta Wedding” by Eudora Welty: “These cousins were the sensations of life and they knew it. Things waited for them to appear, laughing to one another and amazed, in order to happen. They were forever, by luck or intuition, opening doors, discovering things, little or cherished things, running pell-mell down the stairs to meet people, ready to depart for vague and...
Jul 18th
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Jul 17th
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