A Blizzard of Non Sequiturs
I've just discovered wikiHow,
which has 52,866 articles on how to do stuff. Such as. How to:
Make English fish and chips with beer batter; eat wild rabbit; make jello shots;
remove a hickey; calculate pi by throwing frozen hotdogs.
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Stalin vs. Martians : Dance Dance Marxist Revolution.
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It's 65 outside and the daffodils are coming up. So, naturally, they're
predicting a foot of snow tomorrow, blizzard conditions, and 40 MPH winds.
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Sweet Junie had a wonderful idea last week: signing us up for regular
donations to
FINCA, an organization that provide
microloans to the world's lowest-income entrepreneurs.
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Thomas:
"Pleasure without discipline leads to impotence. Certainty without discipline
leads to ignorance."
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You all probably know this, but Nada has had an interesting
life so far.
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Johannes tends to "fundamentally disagree with blogger Jonathan
Mayhew about just about
everything", which strikes me as odd, having read a great number of both
gentlemen's posts. On the topic of poetry, I occasionally disagree with JM,
but there are so many topics he comments upon (e.g., Jazz, Spanish-language
literature) about which I know little, that it's hard to know whether I would
disagree if I were as knowledgeable. One thing I like about JM is that he
is pretty out front about what he thinks and why he thinks it, even if I may
disagree with the conclusions.
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NaPoWriMo continues unabated. I was pleased to see that
Reb is getting a free night at
the Borata. As I seldom get to the East Coast, I've only seen the casino
on TV when they're holding poker tournaments. Looks like a swell joint,
though.
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The paper says that two million jobs have been lost this year. And, of
course, we're only 3 months into it. State by state unemployment numbers
are available over at
CNN
(hat-tip to Emily).
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Also from Emily who apparently got it from
JB, who has a very strange blog (which is, of course, a good thing).
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One day, when I am as fundamentally cool and ChiTown-connected as
Robert, and live in the same city as Mr. Wiman, I will be able to call him
"Chris". But not if I have to write about Belgian surrealist poetry.
I lived in Belgium for 18 months, and dealing with the hopelessly dour affect of
the Flemish was enough for a lifetime.
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At our wedding, we intend to do the Charleston.