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Connected Things: This is Ironic, Right?
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You are looking fine and dandy. Tuesday, June 14, 2011. This is Ironic, Right? Please let this be ironic. That is the only palatable reason I can think of for this thing being on N Mississippi. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. Adventures in Euphemisms: Bath Tissue. This is Ironic, Right? Die, Continuity, Die! Robin Yukiko, singer/songwriter. Surviving in an Advanced Capitalist Society. Stuff That Works For Me. Awesome Inc. template. Powered by Blogger.
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Connected Things: October 2010
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You are looking fine and dandy. Sunday, October 31, 2010. I've seen several of these around town, and the gag is hardly original, but I think it's funny every single time I see it. Honestly, I kind of wish every horse tie had some variant of this going on. Update: Apparently this is a thing! Like, an organized thing! A friend of mine on Facebook alerted me to the existence of the Horse Project. Links to this post. Saturday, October 30, 2010. And they're in True Blood. As did that horrible Van Helsin.
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Connected Things: December 2010
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You are looking fine and dandy. Thursday, December 30, 2010. 2010, In Review. 2010 was simultaneously horrible and awesome. Helllllloooo, grad school! Giving walking tours of Portland has been a fantastic experience, and has made me realize something that I always sort of knew about myself: public speaking makes me high. When I taught for GEOS and then Kaplan, I got some whiffs of that- those days when a class just clicked and the students all went "ooooh! And have occasionally done stand up comedy.
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Connected Things: July 2011
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You are looking fine and dandy. Thursday, July 14, 2011. You're Tearing Me Apart, Lisa! Is a terrible movie. Most movies that are known for being terrible are known for their awful special effects and horribly contrived genre conventions. Plan 9 From Outer Space. Is emblematic of the kind of B movies that are traditionally known as the Worst Ever. Is more like this:. It's like they only rented the flower shop for thirty seconds, and only did a single take. Did you see all that exposition? And then there'...
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The Hired Tongue: Unhired
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Being a description of an English teacher's time in Japan. Feb 18, 2009. As I write this, I am no longer an English teacher, no longer a Hired Tongue, no longer in Japan. I'm uhired now, cut loose to pursue other things, and presently in the familiar setting that is Portland, Oregon, U.S.A. My time in Japan ended with fireworks and music, a fitting ending. Posted by Joe Streckert. When you say mexico, you mean, like, tijuana, or are you going deep? Anyhoo. rock and roll? 3: Rock and Roll! It would seem w...
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Connected Things: May 2011
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You are looking fine and dandy. Saturday, May 28, 2011. On other days, precisely the opposite happens. Some days after a tour the fives and tens and twenties come out in something like a flood, and my wallet has a reassuring fatness to it afterwards. People not only compliment and applaud me, but give me money as well. You don't like me? You don't like the massive, personable knowledge-dump that I just gave you? You don't like the map of Portland with restaurant recommendations that I just did for you?
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The Hired Tongue: September 2008
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Being a description of an English teacher's time in Japan. Sep 26, 2008. The DMZ: Standoff Tourism. To that I say: Korea. After the monuments we made a stop at the Reunification Park near, but still outside, the DMZ. (This, by the way, was where J and I downed a few silkworm larvae. We got on the bus, followed their gaze, and entered the DMZ. The Demilitarized Zone is, oddly, beautiful. The place has been untouched for fifty years, and the vast greenery of it all is sort of odd when one considers...The t...
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The Hired Tongue: June 2008
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Being a description of an English teacher's time in Japan. Jun 27, 2008. I've often mentioned Tokyo in my posts. I do love Tokyo, but really, it's where I spend my weekends. My work week is spent out in Narita, a bit over an hour away from downtown Tokyo. The area around my apartment looks less like a neon labyrinth from the future, and more like this:. The train looks sort of otherworldly, technology speeding through the green. Posted by Joe Streckert. Jun 13, 2008. The Other Side of the Classroom.
