I haven’t really got any thoughts on the State of the Union address, so consider yourselves spared from a thousand words of nonsense on the subject. I didn’t get to watch it, as it came on in the middle of the night over here and I wasn’t about to stay up, wasn’t interested in trying [...]

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I promised three good updates a week, on Mondays and Wednesdays and Fridays, but this one will be crappy. I am out of words. They are all gone. I typed them all already.
I broke 100,000 words tonight in weathered. I’ve never come anywhere close to writing anything this long. poplife was just under 75,000. I’m [...]

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Dennis Kucinich is out.
I’ve always had a hard time disassociating Dennis Kucinich from the first supporter of his I met, back in 2003, outside of a Willie Nelson show in Austin. The dude was one of those Professional Austinites who makes a living being vaguely sleazy, the sort of person who cusses out Capitol Metro [...]

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q: what’s the hardest part about learning to rollerblade?
a: telling your dad that you’re fucking gay.
That’s a high school skater joke. I think so, anyway- I only heard it for the first time a couple of years ago, because I wasn’t friends with any skater kids in high school. I couldn’t be, really- my school’s [...]

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In the wake of the Academy Award nominations, it appears I have thrust myself into the role of defender of juno until the day comes at which I am exhausted of hearing the same tired arguments about how teenagers don’t talk like that in real life and the music’s so weird and bad and it’s [...]

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I’m writing this with a minute and a half to go in the Packers/Giants game. I have declared Eli Manning a Winner several times this month, and I expect to be vindicated. Of course, in two weeks he will be up against the King of the Winners, Tom Brady. Is there anything that rattles that [...]

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If you’re looking to take a realistic long-odds bet this weekend, you’d be much better served to place a fiver on John Edwards to win Nevada tomorrow than on anything happening in the NFL. Only a fool would put money on any team to win that wasn’t the Patriots, and even then, the payoff isn’t [...]

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Jesus, writing a book is a terrible thing to do. I really don’t recommend it, unless you hate yourself and love the nagging feeling of failure dogging your heels at all times. I had a 2,000 word day yesterday, which is good, and I was shooting for the same today- I got up to 1,200 [...]

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