Category: Blog
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Gilmore Girls Recap
How’s Trix? — Gran dies, and everything grinds to a halt. Digger shows he truly will be no good in a long-term relationship, and most of the town completely ignores the passing of apparently a legendary matriarch. Richard cries a lot, and Emily shows off her gams.
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whatcha doin’?
LA Lesson learned today: Apparently smog checks don’t cost the same thing at every mechanic. In Texas I do believe the yearly state inspection sticker always cost fifteen bucks. So when I plunked down fifty today at my closest mechanic I thought nothing of it. The rest of the day I passed smog check signs…
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more good news.
“Who starts a new job, plans a wedding and writes a book all within seven months? Crazy people, that’s who.” Go congratulate Erin on her book deal.
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Library Good News!
Measure Q passed! Yay! Measure Q was placed on the ballot by the City Council in order to avoid further cuts to the library system, which has had its budget slashed twice since 2002. The measure should generate enough revenue to keep library branches open more often and buy new books and other materials. The…
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Latte Hottes
In Austin a coffee shop was expected to be filled with grubby, crazy people. There were the newspaper addicts, with their towering stacks of information as they devoured page after page, their faces growing increasingly furious as they learned how the world was going into the shitter.
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dan examines the latest in air-o-NOT-ics
The dumb fact of it all is that I’d never been so excited to travel to an airport in my life. For what seems like the last fifty times I’ve gotten on a plane, it’s always been to travel to some westward ho! location that takes some four to six hours to get to and…
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Winners and Losers
Ever since I lived in Austin, where my friends really don’t like to go thirty full minutes without gambling on something, the Oscars have turned into a betting game. We vote for every aired award, adding two tie-breakers (number of minutes of broadcast and most inappropriate speech (last year was “most pretentous”, and it caused…
