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It’s Labor Day & I’m Boring: Back to Life, Back to Reality Edition

So today is actually Monday. That slipped my mind until roughly 7:30 tonight when Sister #2 asked me at belated Family Dinner if I had to get home to live-tweet “Diff’rent Strokes.” “No,” I said. “That’s on Mondays.” “It is Monday.” “Fuck.” So I lost a day in there, probably Saturday since I don’t recall it at all. Yesterday, I remember because there was Rock & Roll Bookclub where my niece showed us everything she learned in her teen peer-educator…

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The Golem & The Jinni

The further away I get from The Golem and The Jinni by Helene Wecker, the more I like it. When I first finished the book a month or so ago I was all “eh, that was pretty.” And make no mistake it is pretty. It’s a pretty, pretty physical book and a pretty, pretty story of two beings finding each other in turn-of-the-century New York. Do we still call the 1900s the turn of the century when we just had…

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It’s Sunday & I’m Boring: Achin’ to Be in Toronto Edition

10:50 a.m. I’m sitting here typing with The’Mats’ “Please to Meet Me” coming through the headphones. My ass is kind of sore because I’ve spent the past 24 hours kicking myself, hard, for not going to see RiotFest in Toronto. My pal Vodo is in Canada and sending me messages that have left me so filled with envy that I don’t even know what to do with myself. So great was my envy that yesterday I dusted some things. I…

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Admitting that maybe I was wrong about The Spin Doctors

As I said on Facebook, my friend Steve tricked me into playing one of his dirty Facebook games. In this one your friend gives you a year and then you list the 10 best albums from that year. Steve got 1993 and left Liz Phair’s “Exile in Guyville” off the list. Of course I had to say something. He then gave me the year 1991. Because I am a rebel, I made my own rules and listed albums that I’m…

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The Horns of a Dilemma: Good Citizenship vs Self-interest

I’ve always wanted to use that cliche: horns of a dilemma. My life is mostly dilemma free or at least I believe it to be. I had to search the archives and found roughly 42 posts featuring the word dilemma and most of those dilemmas had to do with Dawson’s Creek or dealing with insomnia. Once it was quoting a Spin Doctors’ song. There are important facts I feel the need for you to know and have nothing at all…

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It’s Sunday & I’m Boring: Back with a Vengeance Edition

Sometimes when you least expect it you take a whole week off from writing. I didn’t plan to take a whole week off, but I did it. I took a whole week off from most everything. The Tibbles were in the Dells with Sister #3. Work has hit the end-of-summer lull. I spent all that free time intermittently napping, eating, and basically drooling on myself. Oh, and playing Plants vs Zombies 2 as if someone’s life depended on it. I…

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