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Boston Transit
The Metro Boston Transit Authority subway cars sound like they’re powered by electormagnetic ether magic, look like they were carpeted by some 1950’s anarchist, smell like they service a deserted island, and feel like tech straight out of a Japanese horror film. In other words, a piece of the world once controlled by the Dharma Initiative.
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Horizon Light
“At first I thought I saw the sun setting in the east; I knew where east was, because the sun was just over the horizon when we got there that morning. Then I realized that what I saw was a full moon rising just as the sun was going down. Each of them was standing…
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BOOK CLUB: The Man in the High Castle
Our next book for book club is THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE by Philip K Dick. We’ll discuss in the comments and the next book will be The Cuckoo’s Calling by J.K. Rowling as Robert Galbraith — December 23rd (eve of Eve!), 2016. To kick things off: Farce and faking make a big theme early in the novel.…
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Trucker Old to Trucker Young
At a truck stop, one aged and greying trucker approaches a younger one who has claimed his own urinal in the middle. Men know etiquette: you don’t take the middle urinal. This young man had, but the old trucker seemed to be of the kind who changes into his swimmingtrunks in the midst of a…
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Why Tara and I Quit Social Media. All Of It.
Starting this month, Tara and I quit social media. All of it. Deleted about ten years of followers on Twitter accidentally — that kind of kicked it off. Then I deleted about 25k in Reddit karma. Nothing to brag about, but certainly not an insubstantial amount either. She got rid of Instagram and Facebook. I…
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Mark Time
It seems to me half the stories we tell one another after extended absences — after a move or a long journey — all come down to a way to mark time. Sure, sometimes people compare themselves and bring about a bit of arrogance. But the most likely effect isn’t arrogance, but rather reverence for the…
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Midnight Confessions
Colbert’s “Midnight Confessions” is brilliant on so many levels. Best sketch on late night:
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Kumbaya, New York, Kumbaya
You know what big cities don’t have? Good camp songs. I mean, you need like a camp fire and an open night sky full of stars and grass and room enough for a circle. Closest place would be Coney Island in NYC and that’s just… well YOU try making a good bonfire at Coney. Camp…
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Finishing Touches
I never understood why professional painters will just add another layer of pigment on top of their mistakes until I realized how easy it was to tie a double windsor.
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Diabetic Jokes
Diabetes gets old. Diabetic jokes do not. I still laugh when my wife says, “I’m low,” after having a needle in her all day. Or, after having a bout of sugar-related uncontrollable emotion, yelling, “I’m so high right now!” People have asked her in restaurants if she’s playing video games and I almost lose my…
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Only a Person Can Make a Promise
If forgiving is the only remedy for your painful past, promising is the only remedy for your uncertain future. … When I make a promise I bear witness that my future with you is not locked into … the fateful combinations of X’s and Y’s in the hand I was dealt out of my parents’…