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A letter to the internet

2008-05-13T02:48:59Z

Dear People of the Internet, Hi, how are you? Things are going pretty well here at Supergenius HQ. I spent a lot of time working on a writing project, it involved notecards and the sinking suspicion that I had lost one of my stories. No worries t...

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Funny books Part I

2008-05-12T03:40:53Z

One of the readers on I Will Dare asked me to list some 'good humor' books. So here’s a list of books that I found funny. I am only covering fiction here, which is hard because I find that not a lot of books are funny, at least not funny on purpo...

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BookTV is some kind of wonderful

2008-05-11T00:04:33Z

On Book TV right this very second, they're airing a tribute to Philip Roth in honor of his 75th birthday. On the fiction panel? Charles D'Ambrosio, Nathan Englander, and Jonathan Lethem. I am seriously spoojing with great delight at the moment. If...

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Closure

2008-05-10T04:58:32Z

In September of 1999 I started working at Jasc Software. It was a little company that made digital photography software. I landed at Jasc as a Customer Service temp. I had two options from the temp agency. I could work at some publishing firm in ...

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Excedrin written all over it

2008-05-09T03:09:06Z

I went to an awesome party tonight where I drank a margarita and one beer. I was going to tell you all about the party but now I have the kind of headache where I am pretty sure that my left eye is going to burst from my skull, and I kind of want ...

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Aunt Jodi's Early Morning Dance Party -- the video

2008-05-08T02:55:37Z

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For Daby & Hotrod -- Signs you might be a Hipster

2008-05-06T15:52:36Z

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QotW: Life Stories

2008-05-06T04:52:29Z

Whose memoirs would you most like to read? Probably mine. After leading this life who wouldn't want to read my memoirs?

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Things I learned from watching most of the 832-part History of Rock and Roll on VH1 Classics

2008-05-05T03:48:39Z

1. The song “Carrie Ann” was written about Marianne Faithful. 2. “Do You Believe in Magic” came out in like 1965 and not in about 1985 like I had always assumed, also the band who sings it, The Lovin’ Spoonful toured with The Supremes. 3. Though...

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Zodiac

2008-05-03T16:50:30Z

Had I known that Jake Gyllenhaal and Robert Downey, Jr. were in this movie and that a lot of it took place in the office of the San Francisco Chronicle, I'd have watched it ages ago. Robert Downey, Jr is one of those actors who steals the scene wh...

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