Thanks to Wordpress and its myriad nifty features and plugins, I’ve not only re-enabled comments but I’ve also figured out how to keep certain topics out of the public realm entirely. I really had a lot of hesitation migrating to Wordpress at first in large part because I had written my own CMS called Chatterbox […]

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Every morning I receive an e-mail from the assistant to the State Archivist with the subject Today’s Calendar. This is a procedure that was implemented a few years ago in an attempt to keep those of us in the Archives, Reference and Information Services department well-informed. I usually don’t read it very thoroughly because I […]

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I took Emma to Bouldin Creek Coffeehouse tonight. My plan was to take some pictures and read a little. I’ve been working on Middlesex for well over a month now and I was kind of hoping to get at least halfway through. I’d made it about five pages and had almost finished my Italian soda […]

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The conversation drifted from rumors of a new Conan the Barbarian movie (ugh) to John Milius (who directed the original Conan in 1982) to Walter Sobchak (who is based on John Milius). Then came random quotes from Conan interspersed with random quotes from The Big Lebowski. It was all very disconcerting.

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“A guy goes nuts if he ain’t got nobody. Don’t make no difference who the guy is, long’s he’s with you. I tell ya, I tell ya,” he cried, “I tell ya a guy gets lonely, an’ he gets sick.” Ben quotes Of Mice and Men to Sawyer in the last minutes of Every Man […]

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Today, I got a dog. Her name is Emma. She’s a three-year-old Jack Russell mix I adopted from the Town Lake Animal Center (her name at the Center was Lilah. I have nothing against the name Lilah, but I prefer Emma). She’s super affectionate yet fiercely independent. So far, I haven’t heard her bark, but […]

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I’ll get right to the point: zip up your pants before you step away from the urinal. The entryway to the bathroom at my doctor’s office is narrow. When you first walk in, there is a privacy wall right in front of you. You have to veer to the left into order to reach the […]

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If you haven’t seen Lost yet but want to, stop reading now. I’m about to spoil some surprises.
First off, I finally figured out where I’ve seen Ana-Lucia. She’s played by Michelle Rodriguez from Girlfight! During that whole flirting scene with Jack at the airport bar I kept trying to place her and I finally did. […]

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Over the past few weeks, my consumption of film and t.v. has increased substantially. One of the by-products of this depression is a complete disinterest in the things that normally interest me like music, woodworking, or reading. Actually, I have been reading a lot which is good. But the other two, which are usually far […]

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