March 2010

On turning 33.3333333333333333333333333333333…

March 25, 2010

Today I turned one-third of a century old. To celebrate, I went to work, found out I’d have two more paid days of work after “post-planning,” bought five reams of printer paper, ate a french toast bagel with cream cheese and opened a bottle of cabernet sauvignon I received as a gift a while back. [...]

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Thoughts from a Marxist, #1.

March 22, 2010

One of my good buddies at work is a teensy tiny bit to my left when it comes to economics–he calls himself a “Marxist”–but he’ll occasionally say things that reek of rational free-market thought. I’ve decided to transcribe these heartless, cutthroat, oil-the-gears-of-capitalism-with-the-blood-of-the-workers outbursts. I’m not sure what I’ll do with them beyond reprinting them here. [...]

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Bash.

March 15, 2010

Got to work this morning after driving in the dark after waking up too biologically early after going to sleep at what felt like the right time. I think I could handle Daylight Savings Time better if the shift were more gradual, say, moving the clocks ahead in 10-minute increments over the course of six [...]

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Metametadream.

March 8, 2010

I neglected to write about this one a while back: I am at my aunt’s house for a big family dinner. I don’t know what the occasion is; there probably isn’t one. Car by car, family members show up and march into the house for the feast. A dark red minivan, which I don’t recognize, [...]

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A new heroine.

March 1, 2010

I hope this article is a hoax, but I fear it isn’t: Two environmentally-conscious loons down in Argentina killed their two-year-old son, shot their seven-month-old daughter, and then relieved themselves of the burdens of their failed and useless lives. According to the suicide note, they were afraid of global warming–which is ironic considering their likely [...]

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