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A me seh one thing Nancy cyaan understan
It’s weird to really like and enjoy a movie but associate negative connotations to it. For me that movie is The Royal Tenenbaums. I love pretty much everything about it — except how it makes me feel....
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Life is crazy, Candy baby.
The initials seemed to leap off the Facebook feed. R.I.P. What the hell? I last talked to her back in 2011. Before that it had been 20+ years. We weren’t close or anything. But it still struck a...
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My dog was lost but now (s)he’s found.
Our family did something that I never, ever thought we would do. We gave away one of our perfectly healthy dogs that we love very much. In the past we joked about giving her away, but in my heart I...
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Isn’t it weird that a privilege could feel like a chore?
Personal failure: I refused to acknowledge or consider my own privilege for a loooooooong time. I suppose a definition will be helpful here. I’ll go with this one: the set of societal privileges that...
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Let’s Talk About Sex, Baby
I remember in high school riding in my girlfriend Kristen’s old Chrysler with a boom box in the center console. Her radio had long quit working and we would blare this song. We had to keep stopping...
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I need a fix. I need a front. I need a new approach, a new approach.
The mid-2000′s were a high-water mark in contrarian thinking. “Out of the box” approaches dominated the business, policymaking, writing, and personal arenas. 2005, in particular, stood out for...
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A cracked polystyrene man. Who just crumbles and burns.
Robin Williams’ passing is just terribly sad on many levels. Not going to get into most of them as I’d like to concentrate on the politicization of his death and hopefully provide some perspective for...
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Shuffle up and deal
NOFX — We Called it America Love it when a punk song comes up on the shuffle and this song is appropriate for the dark and dreary times we’re struggling through. Saw some great NOFX shows back in the...
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I’ve got something against you.
This post is purely aspirational for me because I have a very hard time doing what I’m going to propose. From what I observe, the same holds for a lot of people. So here goes: Be for things. Don’t...
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Man made deltas and concrete rivers. The south drinks what the north delivers.
Happy Earth Day everyone. To celebrate, let’s have a discussion about the least popular animal in California since the infamous spotted owl. I present to you the delta smelt. Cute little guy, isn’t...
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