Campaign for the Mundane
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I had this weird conversation with my mom this week. See, I’d been listening to some classic labor songs from the early 20th century (thanks, Smithsonian Folkways!) and I was thinking about how most of them were about work men were doing. So that made me think about my mother and my grandmother’s work, and […]
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I haven’t been talking about it too much, I think, but I have been overtaken with obsession with the show NCIS. I’ve even made Jack, the least jealous boyfriend on the entire planet, jealous briefly by having a spiffy McGee wallpaper designed by some photoshop-savvy teenager set up on the laptop for weeks now. In […]
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This evening I drove up to the local Chipotle and saw this. I don’t know, maybe something shorted out inside the sign. But it looks like it exploded. Likely it is old news, as I don’t get down that way very often! In other news, which you probably know from other sources, I slam-dunked the […]
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I am getting ever closer to a complete sleeve. This weekend I had another session on my tattoo, this one was nice and short and is currently scabby looking, but the previous session resulted in a lovely angel on the back of my arm, in a spot I actually can’t see without a mirror. Those […]
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I’m really psyched to find out that the Progressive Nation 2009 tour is going to be nearby like, practically right on my birthday. So if anyone wants to have a party for me, they are going to have to bring it to Merriweather Post Pavilion, ok? My friend Wes, who is one of the few […]
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I ran into my boss’ boss in line at lunch yesterday. We had the following exchange: Grandboss: Nothing’s ever easy. Me: Some things are easy! GB: Name something. Me: Um… scrambling an egg. GB: Hrm… Me: Wait, I forgot to think about how the egg got to me in the first place. Never mind. GB: […]
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Sunday we braved the downpour to see our second annual raft of viking metal bands. (See last year’s show review here at my old blog.) I was stressed out about other stuff but it was so very worth it, if for no other reason than pure catharsis and beer. Thinking we’d be fashionably late, we […]
