January 2011
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I just saw a palm tree.
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Arizona
Have you ever been driving fast down a dark two lane highway? Maybe not over-the-limit fast, but still, fast enough. The tachometer gets into its upwards creep and you just want to get where you’re headed already. And then, from somewhere deep in the nighttime forest of the back of your mind it pings at you that if a deer were to jump out from the side of the road you would be irrevocably,...
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Broken Social Scene, “Chase Scene”
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“I’ve come by, she says, to tell you
that this is it. I’m not kidding, it’s...”
– “Eat Your Heart Out”, Charles Bukowski (via jicarh)
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Things I will not miss about Colorado
1. The South Platte River by the oil refinery in Denver. It’s such a dispirited little thing; I feel utterly deflated every time I drive over it.
2. “Everything” bagels with Italian seasoning. Let’s get something straight, Colorado. You know who doesn’t make bagels? Italian people. For good reasons. Enough already.
3. The horrendous, ferocious blue demon horse with...
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Momentary Panic; Minipigs
sirjolt:
Me: Oh…. fuck- Fudd: What? Me: No matter how much I search, I can’t find a paper I need to reference Fudd: Oh. I guess it’s time to drop out, become a plumber? Me: Got it Fudd: Nevermind
This is relevant to my life.
Unrelated, but funny: My sister sent me an email the other day describing a delightful near-mishap as she was filling in citations for her...
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Dry Ice Swamp Cooler
You’d think Boulder, Colorado would be swarming with hippies and green-movementarians. You’d think all the buildings on campus would be LEED-gold-star-certified or powered by solar and reclaimed methane from the Greeley slaughterhouses or something. You’d think there’d be a whole-hearted campus-crusade to reduce energy wasteage. You’d be wrong.
Our antiquated...
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Words potentially related: unkempt,...
If you’ve been following English vowel changes for the last 1500 years you can probably spot the stem comb in the word unkempt. While unkempt now has the sense of a “general state of untidyness or personal bedragglement” (or at least, that’s how I’d define it), it used to refer much more specifically to wild, uncombed hair. I’d like to take an eymological leap...
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Sioux City, 7pm
The streets of Sioux City, Iowa were sodium-dim and empty. Perhaps unsurprising, as anyone with a lick of soul had probably long-since abandoned this desolate patch of concrete along I-29. Even those unfortunates who had no choice but to linger here retained at least the self-preservation skills to stay indoors on a cold January night.
I considered putting a few quarters in the meter, and then...
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Lessons from the rural roadside
Freedom isn’t free
Christ IS risen (emphasis theirs)
The northern woods of Wisconsin is Packers Territory
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tumblr is leaking again
Tristan minus 2 hours! Sitting at a coffee shop on State Street in Madison, Wisconsin waiting for his employed ass to get out of work so we can go tear this town apart. First order of business: mac-n-cheese pizza. I love this state!
tristn:
I get to “meet” my tumblr bff loscheiner IRL today. My goal is poison her with cheese and alcohol and our bitter cold air.
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The Houseguest
Alexwhines, you are gentleman and a scholar, and a fine judge of whiskey and women. And not a serial killer, either. Thanks for letting me stay with you!
alexwhines:
My mother will be happy to know that the stranger from the internet who stayed in my apartment last night did not serial kill me. Loscheiner is the first stranger from the internet I have met, and the experience was resoundingly...
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New Year's Resolution
Bang Nostrich’s wife.
Jk, I’ll settle for lunch and a photo op.
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