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Now this is ridiculous.

Friday, October 27, 2000

Now this is ridiculous. I wonder if Gore will even see this petition. I do wish there was a better way to effect coalition-building in this country…

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Jonathan Saves The Day

Thursday, October 26, 2000

Jonathan always wears a sweater vest over his uniform shirt. His hair, when I rumple it, is sticky to the touch. He has decided my name is “Ms. Android”– he didn’t misunderstand; he’s joking.

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from a letter to Chase

Tuesday, October 24, 2000

Subject: I laughed until tears came to my eyes (which wasn’t too much of a stretch, seeing as it’s one of those perma-tear days at my house… I screamed myself hoarse at my afterschool class of third-graders today, and then actually burst into tears in front of them. you know there’s no going back when […]

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Pika-your-bum!

Monday, October 23, 2000

Pika-your-bum!

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Vote Bush. I mean Gore.

Sunday, October 22, 2000

I first heard from Emmanuel Goldstein about this story… as he said, this is too good to be true. The Democrats and Republicans must be using the same ad agency… Update 10/26: It was too good to be true. It was a hoax, as Catherine and Chase pointed out. too bad. At the same time, […]

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From The Sick Sad World Department

Friday, October 20, 2000

I thought the headline of this article alone was revolting. In the days of JFK Jr.’s airplane crash I stole all the signs from the LA Times newspaper bins I could around town… they read “KENNEDY CRASH” in big white letters on black. I felt bad for the survivors, so I took as many as […]

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I Don’t Want To Sleep

Friday, October 20, 2000

so here’s some more classics from the CACFP vaults. scrambles egg cornflakes kellow pulm cold fish home nad soup gronala bars grean salan Feach toast biskets spag spam twigs yely chicken soap carras sticks totot mix green sala orka fruit desert bananana burget bun spaguettis lectuce tomatoe (Dan Quayle’s goin’ DOWN…)

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Laabsta.

Monday, October 16, 2000

I just figured out what the “Blog This!” function of Blogger does. So in the future, you’ll be seeing a lot more things like the Unofficial Lobster Camera Image Archive here…

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What’s For Lunch

Wednesday, October 11, 2000

Every once in a while at work I volunteer to help check the menus we get from child care providers in compliance with the federal Child and Adult Care Food Program, or CACFP. The basic idea of the CACFP– at least the part I deal with– is that the government reimburses day care providers in […]

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Best In Show

Tuesday, October 3, 2000

the presidential debates, 10/03/00 I’d like to ask now why should the American public entrust the education of their children the stewardship of peace in Montenegro and their golden years should the economy fail to you see my suit my haircut years in the Ivy League a noble tremble standing as trained, I am the […]

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