Month: February 2008
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To That One Neighbor.
Nobody is happier than you that you’ve found your Amy Winehouse CD. I mean that. Because, see, nobody is happy but you that you found your Amy Winehouse CD. Last summer, when I heard “Rehab” on eleven blasting from — (what is that, your porch? your super-speakered ipod? where do you get such volume?) —…
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2008 Dewey Donation System Book Drive Begins!
Two libraries in need. Two ways to help. Help a little; help a lot. Either way, we’re proud to announce the launch of the 2008 Dewey Donation System Fundraiser/Book Drive. This year we’ve teamed up with the Rockhouse Foundation to help fund a brand new library for the Negril All Ages School in Jamaica, and…
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hopefully her thought will count double.
I’m not good at baking. Cooking, that’s different. I do okay there. Or at least I don’t usually make massive failures. But baking? That weird science where you put something in a bowl or pan, shove it into a heat box and hope for the best? I screw that up almost every time. And I…
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The Tenth Annual Valentine’s Day Poems
The Secret of Our Success 1. He never makes me see him pee. 2. I never let him see me do yoga in shorts. That’s it! [db] OCD VD Do you still love me? Do you still love me? Do you still love me? Do you still love me when I’m sitting on this couch…
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In your thirties, you feel bad about your hands.
Nora Ephron: I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman
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my television is freaking me out.
That’s Jessica’s brother! He apparently worked with the people who make the iPhone commercials, and they liked the way his name looked, so they used it in their ad. Or something like that. Jessica explained it, but I was distracted, feeling like the world is getting smaller and smaller. I wish it were even smaller…
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The Strike Is Over.
Man, I can’t believe I finally got to write that sentence. Now the weird hurry-up-and-wait daily grind of pickets and meetings can be replaced with the more familiar hurry-up-and-wait daily grind of story pitches and… meetings. But now with more Internet flavor! It’s a big, exciting week. I’m gearing up to go back to work,…
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pencils at 81.5%…
Good news. Actual good news. We got the back-nine just days before the strike started, so there was no time for celebration. Now days before the strike ends, this. I was all alone and folding laundry when I found out, which made me panic that somehow I wasn’t supposed to find out that there’s a…
