Wasting a bit of time today, waiting around for some news. Remember when I used to take drugs for money? I’m about to get back in that game. I passed my screening without incident, including the blood pressure/pulse thing that usually trips me up- I have what is apparently a real condition called white coat [...]

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I tracked down the witchdoctor at Elephant & Castle I paid £20 to in exchange for a powerful hex on Randy Moss and Tom Brady in the playoffs. It had been tricky this morning- the weather was deceptively placid, but threatened to erupt into a storm at any moment, lending the endeavor a spooky quality, [...]

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We had gone to Leicester Square to see a movie; the Prince Charles Cinema, the London cross between the Alamo Drafthouse and a dollar theatre, was showing once, and we’d both heard good things, but missed its theatrical run in the States. One of the good things about most movies opening months late here is [...]

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I’ve been meaning to keep track of books I read again. Since I’ve experienced some form of brain-death that has kept me from coming up with anything of any use to say (duders, castro resigned! duders, muhsin muhammad got cut! duders, i’ve got gutter twins tickets for thursday!), I may as well start now. It’s [...]

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Man, it’s hard getting back into a daily rhythm right now. It’s been a weird couple weeks- a brief detour into a day job, the near-ending of the book, international travel.
I’m a little intimidated by it all, especially given that I’m due to have a whole lot less direction once I write the next four [...]

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So much for that resolution to keep this thing updated three times a week, huh? This is number two, and there won’t be a third by tomorrow, I’m sure. Hopefully, if you’ve missed me, you’ve been keeping up with the thirtying over at takingtigermountain.com, and caught Thursday’s column about aging and Danzig. If not, well, [...]

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Paddy Power, an Irish bookie service with shops throughout the UK, paid off all of its bets on the US Democratic Party presidential nomination a month ago, after the Iowa primary but before New Hampshire, claiming that it was clear that Obama would win. They coughed up about £30,000 and said that it was clear [...]

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The timing on Romney’s drop from the Republican race is suspect, isn’t it? Here John McCain was literally on his way to a major conservative conference, where he was going to have to listen and accede to various demands or risk having them throw their full weight behind Romney, and suddenly Romney’s gone. Now McCain [...]

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