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• a uniform hieroglyphic

  December 14, 2012

  One of my favorite columnists - nay, human beings, and imaginary boyfriend - Nick Kristof wrote one of his typically superlative Op-Ed pieces is the New York Times today about the urgent need for gun control in the aftermath of the tragic school shooting in Newton, Connecticut. An excerpt: "...

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• Air & Lack Thereof

  December 10, 2012

  Today I had a day off from teaching. Still, at 2pm I had scheduled an appointment with an Intro student to help her with her final paper. Her name is Haley Berry; I try my damnedest to not pronounce it like the movie star, but my stupid predilection for obvious humor is like an itch…

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• Two-Headed Boy Pt. II *edit

  December 7, 2012

  yesterday i deleted my Facebook and am quite proud of myself, having decided that it was better to cut off the festering, gangrenous limb and let the stump heal. that is about the tiny extent of my Luddite tendencies, but it fits with my general philosophy of aloofness and anti sociability. wicke...

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• too little too late

  November 29, 2012

  Nov 3 i drove downtown to a place called Stillwater and had several beers with Laine and her two lesbian friends Britnee and Claire. Britnee asked me if i'd ever kissed a black girl and if i would want to; i said hypothetically yes. Britnee, being black, seemed disappointed. so i grabbed her hand...

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• hey, that’s my bike

  October 26, 2012

  shuffling through my iTunes library right now i'm on "How Does it Make You Feel?" from AIr's (unfairly maligned IMO) 3rd  album, 10,000 Hz Legend. I love revisiting music i haven't heard or even thought about in years; of course a lot of it has aged terribly, but going ba...

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• awesome sauce

  October 24, 2012

    Saturday I DRANK A BEER for the first time in 88 days. Ben had come in from New Orleans and we decided to check out the local nightlife... if one may even call it that in a depressing midsize town like Augusta, GA. I took a xanax before heading downtown and we chose indifferently to&h...

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• the howling fantods

  August 29, 2012

  how does a person delete his diary by accident, you ask? it's actually quite simple; some time ago i had the idea of creating a second diary whose diarist would have a different style and personality. then this fictional diarist and i would note each other for fun. perhaps i have too much time on...

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