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Everything but country and rap

Saturday, January 1, 2011

In conclusion: I am an insufferable music snob.

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TSA Experience, 101126

Friday, November 26, 2010

After four flights and two check-ins, my final leg of travel in nine days finally confronted me with a millimeter-wave scanner. At Detroit, every passenger who had put their bag on the scanner was waved into the line for the millimeter-wave scanner (and, I should note, this meant we did not go through the metal […]

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TSA Experience, 101117

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

As I’ve been following the movement to resist the use of backscatter scanners at airports, and people are being encouraged to report their experiences to the ACLU as well as the general public, I thought I should report my experience with the TSA this morning:

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Do the Tighten Up!

Sunday, October 24, 2010

Hi everybody! We are YMO, from Tokyo, Japan! Now, Tighten Up was very popular in Houston, Texas? With Archie Bell, and the Drells? Now, tighten up! Takahashi! Sakamoto! Yo La Tengo! Lynda Barry! Come on, everybody! Sock it to me, Sakamoto! JAPANESE GENTLEMEN, STAND UP PLEASE! DO THE TIGHTEN UP!

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What We Won’t Be This Halloween

Friday, October 22, 2010

or, I Do Not Think That Word Means What You Think It Means.

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Epic Moving Day

Friday, September 3, 2010

Last Sunday was moving day. I should describe my new apartment before I explain what happened. My new place is in a building where I lived for the past two years in another unit. The building is excellent: renovated in 2008, no roaches, no bedbugs, laundry on premises, elevators, a guy who sits in the […]

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Did You Know?

Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Russell Hoban (Riddley Walker author)’s son Wieland is one year younger than me, is a composer famous in his own right (though I suspect he writes music which is hard to listen to), and has written an article about phone ringtones which references that goddamn Theodor Adorno piece about jazz which makes everyone hate Adorno? […]

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Tasty drink

Tuesday, August 7, 2007

Tasty Drink from Precious Roommate.

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Lost in San Francisco

Sunday, August 5, 2007

Photos from Paradise Lost.

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WANT

Friday, June 1, 2007

LOLTheorists get theirs.

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