April 2011
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"If all else fails, flask it."
-Piece of advice I just received. I want it on my tombstone.
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Trapeze? Check. Net? Not so much.
Sometimes knowing that no one—no one—has your back just makes it all the more exhilarating when you pull off that blindfolded triple-flip in midair.
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I don't think "Inbox" means what you think it...
On those rare and fleeting occasions when I actually achieve the near-mythical “Inbox Zero,” I allow myself to celebrate only until the moment I realize that I still have a dozen Twitter DMs and private Tumblr “questions” in need of responses.
The average duration of that celebratory period is about four seconds.
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The Passive-Aggressive Anarchist: episode 1
“No, that’s OK, Carl. I didn’t want to smash any of those big windows. It’s not like I brought these bricks all the way from home or anything. You go ahead and smash them all yourself. No, it’s fine, really. I’ll just kick over this little plastic box with the alt-weeklies in it. I didn’t want to get glass all over me anyway.”
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What?
Really?
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It's a good thing our Freedom Bombs only kill the...
At least 25 people have been killed in a US drone strike in the troubled Pakistani tribal region of North Waziristan, officials told the BBC.
Missiles were fired on a large compound in the town of Spinwam, but five women and four children in a nearby house were also killed.
Oops. I guess a 36% rate of civilian casualties is acceptable now, so long as we’re hitting at least a couple of...
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The Three Initiates
He’d been talking for five full minutes—mostly in circles—but I couldn’t bring myself to hang up the phone. It wasn’t so much what he was saying, but how. Something about his voice wasn’t right. He spoke precise, unaccented English. A little too precise, maybe. It sounded almost constructed. Artificial. Inorganic, even.
“I do hope you see my point, Mr. Dundee,” the man said.
“I’m not at all sure...
Pharmaceutical cagematch
Tonight, in my body, the Ambien Walrus will go head-to-head with the Adderall Ocelot.
Stay tuned!
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I don't much care for Nick Hornby novels.
There, I’ve said it.
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imperfectreflections asked: What are some of your favourite non-writing things to do?
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wordishness asked: <p><ol><li>When is the book coming out?</li>
<li>What’s your favorite guilty-pleasure movie?</li>
<li>What’s your favorite chewing gum? Why? Show your work.</li>
<li>Am I out of questions now? The answer is ‘yes.’</li>
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<li>What’s your favorite guilty-pleasure movie?</li>
<li>What’s your favorite chewing gum? Why? Show your work.</li>
<li>Am I out of questions now? The answer is ‘yes.’</li>
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