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Monthly Archives: October 2009

Welcome to 1999

Friday, October 30, 2009

Imagine it takes you 5 years to finally download photos off a phone. Only to discover they mostly suck—poorly lit, not what you intended to capture and WAY too freakin’ small. To add insult to injury, you bought a $15 data-transfer cable that ended up being worthless. You couldn’t have made this process harder or [...]

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Jo Transcript #001

Sunday, October 25, 2009

Listening to Taylor Branch talk about his eight years of secret conversations with Bill Clinton, I’m betting the Johanna era has similar literary potential. Me: Are you going to finish your dinner? Jo (building a train with dining room chairs): No. Don’t you want dessert? Yes, I do. Finish up we can have dessert and [...]

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Slow down

Saturday, October 24, 2009

There’s a lot of talk about vaccines and hand-washing lately. We’re getting reports from across town of families in quarantine. There’s a cousin in the hospital with pneumonia. My spleen just gave me one of those “hello” stabs. And suddenly Jo’s got symptoms. Has it begun? There’s sun coming through the window and all we [...]

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Tapistry

Monday, October 12, 2009

I probably talk too much about the cassettes I’ve been amassing in my car over the last year or two. No one really gets it, but in terms of collecting, they’re now on a par with LPs for me: rare and random little treasures you can’t download on command, only stumble upon; a mild form [...]

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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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History of mid-2009 (abridged)

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

I’ve kept faith through weeks of crumminess that Minneapolis would get one more golden day before we’re buried alive. The sun’s finally out, but they’re saying flakes by Saturday. Shows you what my prayers are worth. With summer’s demise impossible to deny, let’s rewind to balmier times. Settle in, cuz I couldn’t decide on much [...]

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