The Upstairs Neighbors Continue to Bring the Funk

And soul. And classic R&B and pop.
They have been listening to an awesome hit parade type playlist (“Respect” – Aretha, Sam Cooke, various Diana Ross and the Supremes, some of the Temptations) and now it’s Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On?”
Someone just yelled “sing it!” and they are singing it.
The mother began singing along.
A son, deadpan: [...]

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Swords are no one-hit (ha!) wonder

More selfishly, I'd choose typewriters b/c I love crunchy percussive sounds.

There's not a fighting (ha!) chance with guns. Plus, it's like built-in exercise if you're gonna. I'm not a fan of swordplay (*love* wordplay), but usually you can at least see when danger is there. With guns, your real main hope is that [...]

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Enough to get by, enough to get fly

Aside from international travel days and days before I had a cell phone, I don't think I've gone a day without my cellphone. I've gone days without using it for something other than alarms and time-telling.
Now, I have international traveling cellphone options, too. Still can't reverse time. So, don't forsee any purposefully cellphone-less [...]

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Demetri Martin’s Dammit I’m Mad

Dammit I’m mad.
Evil is a deed as I live.
God, am I reviled? I rise, my bed on a sun, I melt.
To be not one man emanating is sad. I piss.
Alas, it is so late. Who stops to help?
Man, it is hot. I’m in it. I tell.
I am not a devil. I level “Mad Dog”.
Ah, say [...]

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Dallas, TX to D.C.

I'm really not such a Debbie Downer. Shorter, funner trips have been made. But this was the longest, in a lot of ways.

Less of a road trip and more of a commute between the life I had and the life I'd chosen next. Some 1,400 miles covered some four or five [...]

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UVA Even Snacks Smart

Were you aware there was this “green-yellow-red” labeling + fattybadfood surcharging happening at the University?
Snack Smart Healthy Vending labels:

Green

Less than 5% saturated fat (% total calories)
0-35% total fat (% total calories)
0-140 calories

Yellow

5-10% saturated fat (% total calories)
36-40% total fat (% total calories)
141-200 calories

Red

more than 10% saturated fat (% total calories)
more than 40% total fat (% [...]

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Doing fine in oh-nine

Aside from the “Shit Bitch, You Fine” Valentine bear and the candy bitter hearts, I don’t know what else this holiday has for me. I’m just not comfortable with holidays that have all these Expectations.
I count yesterday a good day, though. Woke up, watched the awesome Thursday night tv I love but missed day of [...]

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The Things People Say

“I think Google makes something like $6 billion a year in ad revenue. Just something huge.”
“Man, that’s like bailout numbers.”

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Blank, Babytimes Breakups Rhyme

I did not know what I do now know
All the hurt and pain that your words can grow
For to call them false were far to high a praise
For a heart should not be turned by a clever turn of phrase

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Booty Call as it should be

Hey, Internet –  why don’t they call the thing where you accidentally call someone by sitting on your phone a booty call?

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Marking the Spot

On the drive home from work, the sky was all light blue-orange and clouds were white orange-pink, making a big X. As the road curved, the X dipped below the trees.
Good job on the sky right then, Virginia. Points to you.

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Oh BTW Miley Cyrus I quit

I like Disney Channel fluff for reasons. I am quitting Hannah Montana.
Goofy face?* Why lie? We’re all a big stinking pile of racism. Why get so defensive? Just remedy your ignorance. When people care enough to bring something up, when they know they are going to get all this flak, why not to just listen [...]

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Muriel Rukeyser’s “Käthe Kollwitz” in part

II.
Women as gates, saying:
“The process is after all, like music:
like the development of a piece of music.
The fugues come back and
again and again
interweave.
A theme may seem to have been put aside,
but it keeps returning—
the same thing modulated,
somewhat changed in form.
Usually richer.
And it is very good that this is so.”
A woman pouring her opposites,
“After all there [...]

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A quotation on identity. -ies.

“I think that, especially in America, people try to put you in one but the honest reality is that everybody is a lot.”
- Dawen Wang
I may have misheard this. Maybe it’s the “oddest” reality. The “one” is identities. 
But I could have misunderstood that as well.

Not gonna give you SARS.
Because today Plinky [...]

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Alan’s Cumming Home!

I did not know that Alan Cumming became an American citizen late last year! Post-election, natch.
Oh, I find him so wonderful. He’s pretty much the reason I own X2 and only X2 out of the X-Men movies.
But on his site, there is a “Who Alan’s Done” section. I thought it would be maybe a list of characters, a [...]

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