And got that ill-timed maintenance going so as to keep the protesters’ informational lifeline going: Thank you.

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This is what would have make me happy, and could make me happy, still.
I have been so blind. So very blind.

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1) I dunno, James. I figure a smart phone is one that people remember to turn off at night. (I have the opposite problem: I have to remind myself to turn the “ring function” on in the morning by 10 or so if I don’t have any appointments that day—otherwise, I just flip the sound [...]

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Of course, if we wanted remuneration, why the heck did we major in English?

When I was in college I remember telling my dad one term that I was taking a course in the Victorian novel, one on speculative fiction, and seminars on lesbian literature and William Butler Yeats.
“Isn’t that kind of ‘all frosting, and [...]

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other than in the Ford Motor Company / UAW relationship and the product lines of Toyota and Honda (hint: produce a few midsize sedans; consider stealing a few styling cues from American cars of the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s) will be in the used car market, and the parts market. A lot of people like [...]

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Pajamas Media has a cute little puff piece up about Industrial Light & Magic, apropos of the new Star Trek “reboot” movie.
We only hear about the successful CGI companies—not the ones that went out of business. Or the ones that had prodigious burn rates for years and years without ever turning a profit (e.g., [...]

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I didn’t know enough to hate it, and I’m just as glad.
But here you go:

Trailers are here and here.

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It’s now available. Buy it! Buy two of ‘em. Because when Freakazoid! is climbing the charts on Amazon, it makes people happy!
Not as happy as pancakes make them. But still—pretty happy.

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Susan Boyle is so good, even I could tell she was good.

If Simon whatshisname is going to smile so much, he should tone down the teeth-whitening.
Via everybody.

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And then it hit me: Why not the Executive Branch of the United States of America? I hear those people are really smart, and I can’t imagine a better crew to be shutting down my email, and reading it, or deciding if my websites should go dark.
I mean: they are handling the economic situation and [...]

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One day isn’t enough to honor the legendary Iowahawk. Nope: it’s still Iowahawk weekend until I go to bed tonight.
Those of you who are doing this right will have spent the past 72 hours partying, getting nice tatts, racing hot rods, cussing in Spanglish, or appreciating vintage Americana.
Burge’s open thread on “National Me Day” [...]

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Curvy vs. “Smart” vs. Smokin’; Blue vs. Green vs. Black
It seems to me that the advantage of the Smart Car [e.g., SmartforTwo] is that is is street-legal, even for roads with speed limits over 35 mph (the Gem Car is limited to such streets, but will only go 25 mph). Here is my SmartForTwo, which [...]

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. . . features Tim Curry. I know I saw this at the old Fox Venice Theater in Los Angeles when Curry’s Read My Lips album was in the “record stores” (and I do own that work, albeit on vinyl).
I assume that this short film was showing as a prelude to a screening of [...]

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I made a point of hand-writing it, and I deliberately did not draft it out in advance; it was as artless as I could make it. Just a fan letter, with clumsy word repetitions. A way of letting Eastwood know that as far as I am concerned Gran Torino went beyond entertainment (which he has [...]

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. . . who digs modern architecture?

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let’s try a Federal version.”
Do they think that we’re complete idiots? Oh. Right.
Via Hit & Run.

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Then watch an American football game; it seems to me that the cheerleaders at same are pretty varied in race and body type.
Stacy McCain has the “naked (and nearly naked) skydivers” commercial. To summarize:
1) Per Stacy McCain and Joy McCann there is at least one Asian woman present among the skydivers.
2) Per Stacy McCain and [...]

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I’d go for the smallest one possible that still has a decent amount of counter space, and features a place or two for non-cooks to sit.* Do whatever you have to for a decent amount of light: skylights, bright recessed lights. Buy a fucking lamp if you have to.
Marble counters rawk for rolling out pie [...]

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I’m thankful to be healthy, brilliant, and not too hard on the eyes.
I’m thankful to have things to do, and clients to annoy.
I’m thankful to live in an age when a lot of people stand a fighting chance against cancer that they wouldn’t have a generation ago, and when heart-bypass operations are likely to be [...]

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