Dear David Berman and John Hodgman,
It all started when I couldn’t shave the Cuban.
A note to Barney’s landlady. Scatology ensued.
As it often did in situations like those.
“As your family celebrates Christmas beneath me.”
(No offense, but what happened happened.)
I’m a Wilsonian absurdist.
I believe that American military power should be reserved
Only for moments of profound creative anxiety
Or [...]
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Posted in Companies on November 25, 2005 | 4 Comments »
If you live in, or visit, Eugene, Oregon, and have an occasion to take a taxi, DO NOT take Budget Taxi.
We called to have a cab pick up my mother-in-law from the hospital where she had gone, having broken her arm. The driver who showed up was drunk. I mean Foster Brooks, ashen-faced, bum-beard, [...]
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Dear David Berman and John Hodgman,
In Bulawayo the bon-bon trees laugh and dance and smile in the happy giggle sunshine pavilion as the candy corn fields blush and bloom.
In the late afternoon, school teachers in white paper cones decorate the white paper cones they’re wearing with potato prints of cornflowers stained with oolong flavorings.
I sit [...]
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Posted in Europe on November 10, 2005 | No Comments »
A year ago I wrote this essay: “The City of Light and the Cités of Darkness.” I had returned from a summer traveling around Europe with my wife and the strongest impression I got, not just in Paris but also in Frankfurt and in Amsterdam, was that the way Europe was dealing with its immigrants [...]
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Posted in Egypt, Jailed bloggers on November 6, 2005 | 1 Comment »
From CPB:
Please sign this new petition asking the Egyptian Interior ministry to free Abdolkarim Nabil Seliman, currently in an Egyptian jail for his critical blogging.While you’re at it, don’t forget to sign the petition for the blogger Omid Sheikhan who has been sentenced to 1.5 years in an Iranian jail and 124 lashes.
Don’t forget [...]
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Posted in Travel on November 5, 2005 | No Comments »
If any of the readers of this blog live in, or will be visiting San Francisco this Sunday, we will be at the Edinburgh Castle at about 9:30 (if everything goes according to plans). This is nothing at all official, just having drinks. If you’d like to drop in and say hello, we’d love to [...]
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