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Saturday, November 28, 2009

They Might Be Giants (11/3, First Ave) was one nostalgia show I didn’t bother with this year (X and Sonic Youth were solid; De La Soul was a long, tiresome harangue to put your hands up—or is that every hip-hop show I’ve seen for a decade?). TMBG now makes music for children, which means I’ve [...]

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Notable weekend searches

Sunday, October 11, 2009

Let’s pretend it didn’t just snow: Minimum temperature for tennis. There’s gotta be a way to jerry rig this thing: 1980s canon photocopier toner cartridges. That’s funny, my old laptop didn’t need a stinking $30 fob: DVI to Mini DisplayPort adapter. Recession conundrum: Make it or buy it? Stained glass light boxes. Oh fuck: Mice [...]

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Old joy

Tuesday, June 9, 2009

I recently went to TruValu looking for a manual aerator. Something to loosen up the soil for grass without the full-on assault of a fume-belching engine. Reasonable enough, right? I was unprepared for the scorn I received. Such a thing hadn’t been manufactured since the 1970′s, I was told. Instead of helping me find what [...]

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Bear with me

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Did you know that the discipline of experimental philosophy (or “X-Phi” if you’re in a hurry) has its own emblem, like Special Forces or The Illuminati? It’s an armchair in flames (something about philosophers needing to get out more). I’m designing one in glass for a friend who’s a practicing philosopher, that rarest of species. [...]

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Read, heard, said

Friday, March 20, 2009

Turns out Harry Allen a/k/a “the Media Assassin,” doesn’t just lurk around the PE water cooler like Professor Griff, but is, in fact, out there assassinating media ignorance. A short essay on racism in the new Old Navy commercial that white people probably can’t see. Why my local dry cleaner rocks (not only because it’s [...]

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Dubuque link roundup

Friday, November 28, 2008

My 89-year-old grandfather’s hip broke two weeks ago. He didn’t break it exactly, it just broke. Since that time, he’s been operated on, put in traction and left to languish in a hospital room until they get around to doing more surgery. It is not clear when he will be ready to leave. At his [...]

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Pink frosting

Thursday, February 14, 2008

While my family visits with friends across the alley, I’m passing a sub-zero V-Day evening with some silly sites: >> Stuff White People Like >> The “Blog” of “Unnecessary” Quotation Marks >> Math- and Science- Themed Tattoos >> (best of all) Barack Obama Is Your New Bicycle

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