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Monthly Archives: December 2005

My Resolution: I Give Up

Let’s see if we can stick to that through, say, February.

Doomed

AK emailed me this morning to ask whether I was charging my electric bill to her bank account (answer: no) and demand that I stop.
I asked whether she had received the Christmas gifts that I had sent her. Four words came in reply: “Yes, thanks so much.”
This is my first time at [...]

What Is Blue?

8 days worth of clothing is crammed into a standard-issue LL Bean backpack and a small gym bag. (It’s barely big enough for my sneakers.) Two shirts and an orange blazer are stuffed into a garment bag from Nordstrom. In a bag from Brooks Brothers are books and a small heavy box filled with metal.
Will [...]

Not So Much the Greatest

No, this outline, for Property, is far from the best that I’ve written. But if I add a bit tomorrow, it should be good enough.

In Heaven, Everything Is Fine

Just over one year ago, Angharad and I went to see the Pixies over at DAR hall. Laurel bought too many tickets, and Rule conveyed two of them to us (I don’t remember whether or not I actually paid for them. If not, sorry, Laurel. That’s partially why I’ve been so careful to pay for [...]

Passat Dream

Is Passat Dream really narrated by a car? Or is it the dealer?
I never realized before how throwaway the lyrics to this one are.

La Fleur des Champs

Hmmm. My lamp seems to have more leaves, but the sculpture of the woman is perfectly identical. Mine is straight bronze, though, and not painted gold (thank god).
The artist is Julien Causee (signed “J. Causse” on a small plaque on the wooden base, which looks to be oak), and it was made around 1900 [...]

Censorware is Good!

I was smarter at age 19.

Etymotics

So my Etymotic ER-6is crapped out a couple months ago. I threw them in a drawer and forgot about it until just a week or so ago. Realizing that the anniversary of my purchasing them was coming up (and had probably passed), I took them out the drawer and posted them back to Etymotics. And [...]

Holmes

My favorite quote of his: “If a man neglects to enforce his rights, he cannot complain if, after a while, the law follows his example.”
Another: “A page of history is worth a volume of logic.”