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Clever Blog Title: It started on a high note
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Because every blog needs one. It started on a high note. You are waiting for your morning bus with about 15 other people. Your bus stop plays host to multiple routes, so with each approaching bus, you squint at the glowing number emblazoned on its front (or taped to the windshield by the driver) to see if your chariot has come to whisk you away. Decision time. Do you:. I, myself, typically choose A. Admittedly, studies have shown that my enthusiasm for flagging down bus drivers for other riders is di...
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the scrawling nomad: November 2010
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Music, Politics, and The Great White Whale. Friday, November 19, 2010. Pride in the Name of Love. When I was 13, I walked from school along route 140 up to the train-tracks, turning down them behind a handful of nearly bankrupt businesses and those working class houses, cramped together and separated by only chain-link. Nothing has yet to top that god damned house key. Thursday, November 4, 2010. A Review of Tom Wait's Bone Machine. Released September 8, 1992. Genre: Rock, Experimental. If you’re s...
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Clever Blog Title: Avatar Thoughts
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Because every blog needs one. All I was going to say in response to assertions that the movie was predictable and the ending could have been stronger was that I can't really think how they could have ended it any other way. Because the whole human presence on Pandora was based on mining and company shares means that, if that presence is no longer profitable, the company'll just pull the plug. All you're going to get are some meaningful looks from the soft corporate representative (which we did). Perhaps&...
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Clever Blog Title: Mr. Varmint Goes to Washington
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Because every blog needs one. Mr Varmint Goes to Washington. This just doesn't seem right. The White House is, supposedly, one of the most secure (albeit, public) pieces of property in the world. The Residence is watched around the clock by hundreds of our country's finest Secret Service agents (officers? They have snipers and anti-aircraft emplacements. There's a big fuck-off fence! So how come they can't keep out a couple of freaking raccoons? I mean, I remember reading ( Where the Red Fern Grows.
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Clever Blog Title: January 2010
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Because every blog needs one. So, evidently, James Cameron's journey to the jungle moon Pandora featured such great CG visuals and 3D technology, that fans are becoming depressed and even suicidal because they'll never be able to visit the fictional satellite. Discussions of over a thousand posts have popped up on forum sites. And now this phenomenon is getting mainstream attention at the Huffington Post. Lovely typo in the graphic. Thanks television. Because the whole human presence on Pandora was based...
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Clever Blog Title: February 2009
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Because every blog needs one. It started on a high note. You are waiting for your morning bus with about 15 other people. Your bus stop plays host to multiple routes, so with each approaching bus, you squint at the glowing number emblazoned on its front (or taped to the windshield by the driver) to see if your chariot has come to whisk you away. Decision time. Do you:. I, myself, typically choose A. Admittedly, studies have shown that my enthusiasm for flagging down bus drivers for other riders is di...
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the scrawling nomad: When did folks get boring?
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Music, Politics, and The Great White Whale. Saturday, May 28, 2011. When did folks get boring? The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie- deliberate, contrived and dishonest- but the myth- persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.". 8212; John F. Kennedy. Have people not seen American Beauty? My castle in Spain.
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the scrawling nomad: October 2011
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Music, Politics, and The Great White Whale. Monday, October 31, 2011. Just be on time, don't be afraid to fail, and when you get thrown off your horse, just learn how to land well, dust yourself off, and climb back on. If you learn nothing else in life, learn how to handle the rough landings. If you know how to get back up, you're never going to suffer for too long. Politics will depress you once or twice in your life time, but as one famous politician said "There's no Republican way to clean up garbage&...
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the scrawling nomad: January 2011
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Music, Politics, and The Great White Whale. Wednesday, January 26, 2011. The narrative of feel. To parry rhetorical idiocy, lets not use a genre here, but instead I’m just going to put 5 songs down, and say that sound equals genre X, where X = a word I will make up soon. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Down Boy. Arcade Fire – Ready to Start. TV on the Radio – Blues from Down here. The National – Blood Buzz Ohio. Decemberists – And here I dreamt I was an architect. But beyond our teen angst and depression, these instan...
