February 2012
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Billy Bragg - Milkman of human kindness... →
Lady Macbeth:
Glamis thou art, and Cawdor, and shalt be
What thou art promis’d. Yet do I fear thy nature,
It is too full o’ th’ milk of human kindness
To catch the nearest way.
Macbeth Act 1, scene 5, 15–18
To Lady Macbeth, the “milk of human kindness” is distasteful stuff—no self-respecting man has any use for it. Therefore, when we use the phrase to...
January 2012
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Grudges, boycotts and banishment
I think holding an unforgiving grudge it is a sign of a strong character. Which is why I want to talk about me right now, so shut up. I have three permanent, immutable grudges that I will carry with me to my grave. Some may say that holding a grudge is close-minded, ignorant and childish. Those people are stupid dumb-dumbs.
Grudge #1 Papa John’s pizza
My oldest grudge
I am going to now...
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Half a fortnight.
Started with being snowed in up North, having to navigate icy roads while all the time wishing my truck had 4WD like my much manlier wife’s truck. (boy does that sentence read poorly; keeping it)
Then I visited the doctor about a lingering pain, he then touched my balls one at a time and proceeded to tell me my urine sample had blood in it. (“hernia check” my ass, CAT scan next...
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2012 goals completed already (and 2013)
Not sure why changing the fourth digit carries so much weight that even I feel an urge to spring-clean my brain. But here I am typing about it. I had no resolutions per se but I have succeeded in letting a few things go:
1) Nine domain names canceled: each were linked to a different tumblr account, each with a different topic, each untouched for a year or more. All backed up and then deleted.
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December 2011
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Holiday madness. Move all the furniture and play with all the things!
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I really should …
Write about how an obscure song from an obscure artist influenced my decision to move from Central Illinois to Arizona. How my crazy friend from high school influenced me in that decision. How a roommate convinced me to join a band. How I then dated and lived with the lead singer of that band. How I broke it off and rode my bicycle from Phoenix to the Grand Canyon in July. How yet another roommate...
Ridgway jokingly compared the multiple-drum-machine- and Farfisa-organ-laden...
– Stan Ridgway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Plum” in the name of this confection does not mean plum in the sense of...
– Sugar plum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[Dienstag] argues that pessimistic thought may provide a critically needed...
– Pessimism: Philosophy, Ethic, Spirit Joshua Foa Dienstag
Let me sing you the song of my people.