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Jan 1st

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Tux or no tux?

Party at art gallery/performance space. Will probably be the only joker wearing one. Don’t care.

Jan 1st

Dec 31st

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Dec 31st

"Goodnight, dear void."

nomoreundead: I was denied health insurance this afternoon. Get this: my current coverage ends tomorrow. Instead of feeling discouraged, I just feel limited. I feel like a disappointment, which is just one step up from feeling like a complete failure. So there’s that. Then I sat in St. Paul’s for a long time. There were all these families lighting candles and taking pictures. There were also...

Dec 31st

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Dec 30th

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Dec 28th

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Dec 28th

LOL

peterfeld:thedeadline: “One of the problems is newspapers fired so many journalists and turned them loose to start so many blogs. They should have executed them. They wouldn’t have had competition. But they foolishly let them out alive.” —Media consultant Alan Mutter. NYTimes: Adding Fees and Fences on Media Sites http://s.nyt.com/u/AMx (via adamiss)

Dec 28th

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Dec 28th

“I think we ought to read only books that bite and sting us. If the book we are...”

– Franz Kafka (via bmdesign) (via aninvisiblerepublic) (via melissacullens)

Dec 28th

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Dec 27th

jesuisperdu: Claude Debussy - Clair de Lune

Dec 27th

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Vintage voyeurism: A stash of obscene etchings is...

WHEN the government decided to split the Home Office into two separate ministries in 2007, various benefits and problems were expected. One consequence that no one foresaw was the discovery of a 200-year-old porn collection. On December 15th a ministerial delegation made its way to the Victoria and Albert (V&A) Museum to hand over a smutty 40-page album turned up during the departmental move...

Dec 27th

Christmas gift list

Included: Windshield defroster (in a can!) Ice scraper Letter opener (not the dagger kind you find on a CEO’s desk, the plastic kind you find in the drawer of someone in customer relations) Shirt Extra battery for iPhone Chapstick (!) Christmas ornament. It’s a female reindeer holding a turkey, wearing an apron that exposes her hindquarters. My brother accidentally dropped his...

Dec 27th

Nuçi's Space →

bthny: Nuçi’s Space is a really great non-profit that I’ve been thinking about in light of Vic Chesnutt’s death and whole health-care reform debate. Here is a description of what they do from their website: It is a support/resource center dedicated to promoting the emotional, physical and occupational well-being of the music community. With a staff of musicians, under the guidance of founder...

Dec 27th

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Dec 27th

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Damn you tumblr iPhone app.

I upload a video of my passed-out cat from my phone. It looks like it loaded. Now I watch it and it’s a minute of darkness, with my cackle as a soundtrack.

Dec 27th

How War-Torn Savannah Celebrated Christmas 1864 |... →

magdalina: Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman reached Savannah, Ga., just before Christmas 1864. His capture of the city helped hasten the end of the war. NPR’s Guy Raz talks to historian Stanley Weintraub, author of the new book General Sherman’s Christmas, which tells how the city celebrated Christmas in the midst of war.

Dec 27th

Stay with NPR as this story develops. annarodriguez: “That’s the classic online prank known as ‘rickrolling’ –- tricking the user into watching something they didn’t mean to see.” -NPR, on memes

Dec 26th

Watch

The hellion gato that hides felt mice under the couch passes out hard on my bed. I laugh like a hyena.

Dec 26th

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Marietta, Ga., you continue to blow my mind.

Yep.

Dec 26th

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Dec 24th

Still at work...

The downside of working at a weekly paper: You get holidays off, but you lose a day of production. And when you’re working on an issue that reflects on a decade in which a city grew, prospered and ultimately fell on hard times, that’s difficult. Ahead of me: finish editing and then drive to the ‘burbs.

Dec 24th

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Atlanta airport bond deal sparks investigation →

A document packet of mysterious origin. A city official who denies sending a letter that bears his signature. A councilman pressuring city employees to give a lucrative deal to a contractor who’s been investigated for alleged criminal misconduct. And, up for grabs, the underwriting commissions on a whopping $1.2 billion worth of airport bonds. This is the story I worked on this weekend....

Dec 22nd

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Dec 22nd

Google Voice Fail

joeventures: This is the transcript of a voice mail I got from my mom today: Hi Joe, it’s Mohammed calling to see how you’re doing it and also we. Doubtly again home finalize plans for. It’s Susan a miracle. Jillian on feet, so if you would give me a call. House 0. You can just call when you can. I’ll be home most of the day. I’ll talk to you later. Hope everything’s whale. Love you. Bye...

Dec 21st

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