I just finished reading Mudslingers: The Twenty-Five Dirtiest Political Campaigns of All Time by Kerwin Swint. It’s especially interesting to look at in a Presidential election year, even if it’s more of a bathroom-style read than, like, a serious book (it’s broken down into 5-6 page sections with clever subheadings and lots of pictures). [...]

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Things’ll be a little slow around here for the next week or two, probably, as moving back to America becomes priority number one. Just to give you a head’s up.
Also, one from the “moving is complicated” file: When we moved here, we bought a big 26″ widescreen CRT television off of Gumtree, the UK equivalent [...]

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Hey, you know who’s still a douchebag? That James Frey asshole who wrote A Milion Little Pieces.
I read a Vanity Fair article about the guy a month or two ago and thought, you know, maybe he’s not so bad, he probably deserves a second chance. And then I opened this week’s issue of TimeOut [...]

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There’s a certain kinship between end-timers of all stripe- whether they be religious, political, resource-based, or even environmental. The source of their beliefs, and the information they take as a given, obviously varies, but there’s definitely enough similarity to make you think that, even though most people who belong to one group tend to think [...]

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It’s Saturday, and everybody pretends that they don’t use the Internet on weekends for some reason, so I’ll bash out one of those posts about books and things, since nobody cares much about those. This is part of the ongoing project of recording all of the books I’ve read this year, so everyone can know [...]

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Kat and I made a challenge to one another to crank out at least a thousand words a day, every day, for the month of June. I’ve been pretty good at it so far, but today I woke up and couldn’t imagine typing a single coherent sentence. I stormed off out of the flat in [...]

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I’ve had a sore throat for the past few days, which means I’ve got this awesome Iggy-Pop-on-the-talking-tracks-from-the-avenue b-album thing going on. Since I’m alone it’s resulted in my reciting various words that I think might sound cool and showing off how rough and tumble my vocal chords are right now. So far I’ve done the [...]

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I’m feeling a bit better about the waiting game. Still sitting on ten sent queries with no reply, but none of them have been out longer than ten days; some significantly less. I’ll just pretend to be patient for a while, in the hope that it’ll actually make me patient. This is how it works. [...]

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