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There is something funny about watching this podcast download…

11-Aug-08

…while I am battling insomnia.

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Rat! Torturing my brain!

10-Jul-08

Last night, the second we’ve spent at the rental next door (we have until mid-month to give up the keys to this one), I had a fairly unnerving experience. I was cold, and my extra-warm comforter that has seen me through more than a decade of love and trauma was in the dryer. Probably, I’d [...]

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74 Things I Didn’t Post to Twitter

27-Jun-08

It’s been a weird week. Sunday, I saw what was, perhaps, the best show of my entire life: The National (playing, as it were, at the Richmond venue called The National). That show deserves its own post (delayed though it may be), but what I want to convey here, as efficiently as possible, is what [...]

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The Eternal Sunshine of the “What the Fuck Are You Talking About?” Mind.

12-Jun-08

Tonight, I received an extraordinarily strange inquiry, via myspace (of all avenues):

My first reaction was to laugh. Really, I mean, what the hell was this dude talking about? And I posted this to Twitter:
Actual email rec’d: “I’m researching the ‘memory eraser’ drug propranolol & came across your comments.” Uh, WHAT comments? I can’t remember!
And really, [...]

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“Mistakes Were Made”: On deception, in the absence of malice.

10-May-08

This morning I’m listening for a second time to a podcast I’d downloaded weeks ago, and hadn’t gotten around to playing the first time around until just yesterday. This is the broadcast for the habitually brilliant This American Life’s episode #354, “Mistakes Were Made,” which originally aired on April 18th of this year. You can [...]

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