March 2010
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the most interesting article on assassins you've... →
February 2010
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“Kittredge loves pretty women, but he is blind, can’t pursue them. So I...”
– we have scheduled leonard michaels for psychotherapy
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“I knew card sharks and con men. I liked marginal types because they seemed...”
– just like today, but with more enemies
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“Jenny Beth Martin, a national coordinator for Tea Party Patriots, an umbrella organization of local groups that Ms. Carender has joined, calls her an unlikely avatar of the movement but an ideal one. She puts a fresh, idealistic face on a movement often dismissed as a bunch of angry extremists.
“She’s not your typical conservative,” she said. “She’s an actress. She’s got a nose ring. I...
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Watchmellifluous, and stolen from felipe
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online dating
she: so i met this guy online
me: when?
she: like a month ago
me: how's it going?
she: it's gone. it went.
me: over already? why?
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she: i did a background check on him
me: what'd you find?
she: well, i saw that he'd been in jail for 5 years - 'theft by taking'
me: seems redundant
she: yeah, well, never mind that. so i asked him about it
me: yeah?
she: yeah. and he said 'actually, it was a 15-year sentence.' armed robbery, and attempted murder. he got out early for good behavior
me: well, that's nice, at least
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she: i asked him why he went in in the first place
me: right
she: he said a guy owed him ten thousand dollars and didn't want to pay. so he went over there with a couple other guys to get the money back.
me: yeah?
she: yeah. and he said 'i only took what was mine. then i shot him and left.' and i said, 'you just left him for dead?' and he said, 'well i didn't really care at the time.'
me: hmmmm
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she: so i asked him if had anything else to say about it, you know, some sort of remorse or something, because aside from the whole attempted murder thing he was a really nice guy. funny, you know, very intelligent
me: nice guys are hard to find
she: right. and he said, 'well, i would have gotten away with it, but the guy ended up not dying.'
me: yeah?
she: yeah
me: you should probably find a new background-check-guy
she: yeah
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he: i don't know what to do with my life
she: quarter-life crisis?
he: i'm generally good at things
she: you are indeed
he: i mean, if someone said, 'hey, go lay textiles,' i'd go do it. and i'd be good at it. i'd probably do it better than the person next to me. but i wouldn't be the best textile-person in the land
she: how do you lay a textile?
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her: i keep getting invitations for weddings. even r + t finally got engaged
him: yeah, white men are pretty reliable
her: i know! i guess i've seen the err of my ways
him: ironically, i think you want to say 'error' there
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“Society wants us to prove to them why we are doing everything they are not:...”
– http://alfonsofelipe.com/blog/2010/02/21/but-we-will-never-be-the-same/
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“That last night in Rome he found a street vendor and bought a megaphone and a...”
– http://www.bootsnall.com/articles/10-02/how-i-travel-coleman-collins.html
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Watchthe never-before-told story of ben franklin, part one
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Watchthe seriously-untold story of ben franklin, part 2
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Watchvice guide to liberia
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Roger Ebert: The Essential Man
Roger Ebert changed the way I look at movies. And his blog has changed the way I look at life. Great article on him at Esquire. Lost the ability to eat, his voice, but not his powers of communication:
—-Ebert’s dreams are happier. Never yet a dream where I can’t talk, he writes on another Post-it note, peeling it off the top of the blue stack. Sometimes I discover — oh, I see! I...
