Author: Pamie
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reading right now
Nick Hornby: Housekeeping Vs. The Dirt Sandeep Jauhar: Intern: A Doctor’s Initiation Brian Wood, Becky Cloonan: Demo
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With Katrina, images of the floating, rolling, angry fire ant balls haunted me.
With Ike, it’s the tiger. Please don’t forget to give to the Red Cross National Disaster Relief Fund. (Oh, man. The fire ant balls! It still makes me so unhappy.)
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Dear Oprah,
Please stop Skyping. I don’t watch your show to meet Jennifer from Oahu on her webcam. Once I’m done judging her home (.000023 seconds), I’ve got nothing left to do but judge her clothes, haircut and webcam quality. And if her husband’s sitting next to her, then I have to think about their relationship, and…
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ack!
In my defense, my lack of updates is not due to wanting to ignore you, but rather that life has made it difficult to update lately. Case in point: Moveable Type. Hates my work computer, for some reason. Hates the new Mac operating system, I think, because it doesn’t matter if it’s Firefox or Safari,…
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smaller world.
Aw, Ragan! Sniff! At work! Ragan has no idea how much of an influence he was on me in high school, even though we only had a short time together. First of all, I remember him in Noises Off, and I remember seeing him and thinking, “That boy and I; we are gonna be friends.”…
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small world
So Ragan sends me a link to this video. It makes me laugh. A lot. (When he removes his glasses, from then on I am in hysterics.). I forward the video. We watch it at work. (Marco: “Not a hit with the straight guys. They ran over to watch it and then wandered away like…
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book stack
Charles Yu: Third Class Superhero Brad Warner: Sit Down and Shut Up: Punk Rock Commentaries on Buddha, God, Truth, Sex, Death, and Dogen’s Treasury of the Right Dharma Eye Christine Kenneally: The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language
