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Mike Whybark - Seattle-based, broad subject matter. Minimal politics, more art-cinema-tech-writing.

Fatmouse - (Found July 2, 2008 )

FATMOUSE, on a reccy from one sleepbot. &8220;FATMOUSE + YOU = FATMOUSE&8221;
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Sunday Morning - (Found July 2, 2008 )

Did you ever wake up and realize that something you'd done was so, so sad VU: She's my Best Friend VU: Sunday Morning (Banana; I have easy access to the Quine Tapes version, but I'm really thinking of the Max's Kansas City Version).
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Vomit - (Found July 2, 2008 )

Everything that passes through my mind makes me feel a wave a physical nausea. I am filled with loathing so profound that it is literally bringing bile to my mouth.
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Surrounded - (Found July 2, 2008 )

On the way in to work this morning, I was bemused to be passed by what is clearly the last of a dying breed, the dinosauroid SUV. What bemused me was the model name of the bloated behemoth: the Buick Enclave surely signals a shift in spirit from the Armadas and Escalades of yore.
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&8220;But he would not stop screaming.&8221; - (Found July 2, 2008 )

The New Yorker's fiction issue includes a longish, elegantly written tale of the baby-trade which interweaves themes of new life, death and loss, sex, and the things we Americans do in service of our desires. It seems unlikely that the piece, written in the form of a companion's memoir of the expedition to Addis to save some tot or other, oh that one will do, from darkest Afric, is intended to prompt identification in the reader with, respectively, the child or the Alzheimer's afflicted and...
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Booger. - (Found July 2, 2008 )

RIP, George Carlin. I originally constructed this post with no content but the Words proper. Then I thought of the 69 year old I am corresponding with concerning genealogy who complimented me on my website. So I'll wait a while. On the other hand, Mr. Carlin was 71 when he died.
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Solstice - (Found July 2, 2008 )

Man, the solstice up here sometimes means four hours of dark, and it like to mess a body up. If a body is me.
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Battered old Mac - (Found July 2, 2008 )

I have sworn to keep my current machine until it's seen four years of service. I had been thinking that would put my reup in Spring of '09. I just looked at the serial number of the trusty old axe and the manufacture date is September 2004. Hm. I think I must have bought it within a month or so of that date. Looks like I can shift some hardware acquisition up in the year. Good!
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Steady - (Found July 2, 2008 )

Man, Singles Going Steady just never gets old. Here's a link that should set you up with the Hype Machine Buzzcocks stream. Not the same thing, but when i checked, 80% of the tunes were from SGS. So kick back, pop a handful of black beauties with some acid, and crack that popper under your nose. When you wake up, you'll feel dead inside but strangely fulfilled.
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Projects - (Found July 2, 2008 )

In a coup of marriage-fu, Viv is tackling a plumbing project in the basement, while I am attempting to set up a 900mhz wireless speaker unit to use the B speaker output on our main AV system. I hope Viv is having better luck, as the receiver powered itself off a couple of times and finally generated a loud &8220;snap,&8221; accompanied by an orangish sparklight and a substantial puff of bluish, ozone-scented smoke. Happily, the receiver still attempts to start up, but shuts down again as soon.
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