Statements and Stories

# 919

2007-02-25T22:47:44Z

Hope may be a thing with wings but I am a thing with claws scrabbling at the unforgiving walls and seeking purchase where it cannot be found. Which and where and when I do not know and if there are answers they've flown away now.

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I Feel the Same Way, Exactly the Same Way

2007-02-23T16:35:38Z

Phone rang. It was Dave, a writer friend. We talked for over an hour, mainly about punctuation. He has big plans for the ellipsis. He's mad for ellipses. I tell him yeah, I have similar affection for the parenthesis (but I always take most of...

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Charlie (5 Word Challenge: pickle, fireplace, audacious, street, surprise)

2007-02-22T10:04:04Z

6:04 AM, Thursday, February 1, 2007 Charlie woke with a start, the crashing of a sheet of snow and ice falling from the roof of her cabin to the ground below too loud for any woman -- or dog -- to sleep through. Her malamute, Benny, whined at th...

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5 Word Challenge: flashlight, doldrums, ferocity, wash, recesses

2007-01-23T16:39:01Z

Lisa crawled out of the recesses of the basement utility room, muttering to herself angrily. For some reason, the pilot light on the hot water heater was going out every night. Each morning of the past week, she'd gotten out of bed and gone to t...

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Poor Asset Management

2006-11-04T21:25:19Z

There's a power interruption at the SixApart datacenter and the only product that's affected is LiveJournal, not Vox, TpePad or the 6A or MT sites which says to me that 6A hasn't consolidated their servers into one location which is, at the very l...

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Oh This Is Bad

2006-09-26T00:37:41Z

I have developed a burgeoning (and, I imagine, soon-to-be overwhelming) addiction to Rold Gold Honey Wheat Twist pretzels.

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Well, Lookee Here

2006-09-13T06:19:12Z

It seems I'm a podcaster now.

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Oh, there it is, LACTOSE INTOLERANCE!

2006-09-01T06:39:23Z

I had forgotten how good Muenster cheese is, but I'm going to pay for this overindulgence.

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Unnerving

2006-08-28T02:00:39Z

It's unnerving to realize that you may be operating on autopilot as a parent; the proof is that when two kids barf on the back deck, your first response, and in fact, your reaction is to send everyone else inside, ask someone to come back with tow...

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Well, Great

2006-08-16T19:38:55Z

As I sit here and listen to Justin Timberlake declare that he's "bringing sexy back" because "motherfuckers don't know how to act" I realize that once again, I am forced to tell my daughters that the music of one of their favorite artists is inap...

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