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THE CABLE GUY.
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The Cable Guy is coming by the house today to put in digital cable. When
he does his install, he's going to be shaking his head. Behind the TV,
there's a hopelessly tangled mess of wires from my surround sound
system. Plus, those wires run underneath a rug (hello fire hazard). Also,
he's going to find the cable box plugged into the wall with tape. Scotch
tape. And I'm sure he won't like the dog hair that's been collecting
under the TV stand (which, I might add, is ready to collapse any time)
since 1943. And I'm hoping the cat didn't pee behind the TV too many
times. Ahem.
Maybe I'll tell the Cable Guy I'm just house-sitting.
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JACKET.
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CLEARLY.
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NEW TOYS.
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According
to Beth, a nice jackass is called a "jack-ette." (kind of like
when she said that it's "better to be a moron than a moroff.")
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Clearly, I love
Beth for her silly wit. And clearly, she hates me for posting her
musings on the internet every other day.
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Today
is definitely New Toy Day. Not only do I now have 967 new channels, but also my new
expensive super-duper laser printer just arrived. Woo hoo!
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NEW ZEALAND.
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FINAL THREE.
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A
college student from New Zealand emailed me the other day about my
Suite101.com death penalty site. She was doing a research paper on
capital punishment in the U.S. and had a few questions. I answered her questions and wished her luck with her paper.
I was happy to help.
But her questions made me realize
something: maybe my little hack writing is important. Somewhere, somehow,
maybe I'm making a difference with my articles on the death penalty.
Sure, the effect may be very small, but it's a kind of a big deal to me.
I mean, c'mon, it was someone from New
Zealand, for chrissakes. That's kinda cool.
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Despite my ineptitude in picking the winners in the first few rounds of
the NCAA tournament, I did correctly pick 3 of the Final Four teams:
Duke, UConn, and Oklahoma State. Doesn't mean I'm good or anything.
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UNIMPORTANCE.
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The
Cable Guy, Final Three, Jackets, Clearly, New Zealand, Bad Mother
Fucker, Unimportance, Ghost Town, and New Toys. |
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On second
thought, the student from New Zealand never really stated her position
on the death penalty. Nor did she say that my death penalty writings had
any influence on her one way or the other.
Back to
Unimportance I go.
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BAD MOTHER FUCKER.
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GHOST TOWN.
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Jules (Samuel L. Jackson): Now I want you to go into that bag and find my wallet.
Ringo (Tim Roth): Which one is it?
Jules: It’s the one that says, "Bad Mother Fucker."
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Although
I am doing some actual work today (yes, a death penalty article--and
with a little more zeal than usual), I want to post a link to a site that is
simply astounding. It's a photo log done by a Russian woman who traveled
by motorcycle through the ravaged areas around Chernobyl. The site takes
awhile to go through (because of the large pictures) and the text is in
broken English, but it's worth it. To see pictures of a city that once
had a population of 50,000--now totally empty--is quite moving. It's stunning, really. The first page of the journal, called "Ghost Town," is
here.
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2000-2004 by gja.
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