Friday Apr 02, 2004

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one of the seattle galleries has a new set of john waters photographs on display. went to see them yesterday after working a dowtown author event with the former prime minister of norway.

somehow, the former prime minister of norway thing seems appropriate to a day in which the photographs of john waters were viewed.

i like coffee.
vutek:
at first i'm all "what could he possibly send that would be worth all that hub-bub-a-loo?"

then you delivered
hoorah!
i feel like we are the Hardy Boys or something now.

many thanks!
vutek:
IJ was so amazing that i grew to adore the infamous "bandana photo" that appears, naturally, on the back.

Sunday Mar 28, 2004

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pancakes.

that's what i want.

pancakes.
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pharaoh:
i think they can pull it off if they can get Prior healthy in time to win the division. i guess it's a good thing they picked up maddux. (not that that could ever be a bad thing) i'd love to see the cubs kick some yankee ass in the series. or take boston in 7, for history's sake.

i wonder how many heart attacks were had during the NLCS last year...

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edited to remove superfluous question mark.

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pharaoh:
man, this isn't a fake. it tied my brain in a knot.


Friday Mar 26, 2004

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was at work very late last night. the store is across from a movie theater. they were changing the marquee. someone forgot a "k". and so, the movie was "the reconing".

which, as you know, is about a department of transportation crew that accidently puts all the traffic cones in the wrong place and has to do it again.
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thephantomvi:
So exactly how long have you been saving up that little gem of a joke?
Oh, I guess as long as it took for a movie called The Reckoning to be out in the theaters,,,,nevemind,,,,
Hey, do you have your work printed in any form? I'd be interested in reading some...
pharaoh:
i've been such a lazy shit about reading. i have this huge pile of about 150 DVDs that i haven't watched that magically ended up in my house, so i've been doing nothing but watching movies. i fell asleep to The Stepford Wives last night. i haven't fallen asleep with a book in too long, my friend.

i used to always buy three books in the time it took me to read one, which is good in these sad economic times, cause now i've got a ton of unread books lying around. someday i shall devour them.

have you been to Powell's in portland? i used to work a couple of blocks away. it will drive a book lover into the poor house. please tell me you've been to Powell's. if not, you're seriously missing out.

Tuesday Mar 23, 2004

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read a story at an open mic. walked home. stopped at a nearby bar for a stout or two, watched a man juggle four balls.

i've never been able to get past three.

what does it all mean?

"someone" wrote me a little note from new zealand. please help me not fuck it up.

reading: hannah tinti, stephen elliott, mikhail bulgakov

hearing: drums and tuba,...
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linz:
i once bet my friend that i could juggle kiwis better than he could. we ended up parked at a baseball feild at two in the morning with squashed kiwis all over the backseat of his car. rowr.
pharaoh:
balls.



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Saturday Mar 20, 2004

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another of my extremely popular bus anecdotes:

i had to take the metro to the seatac hilton to attend the pnba awards banquet. my buddy is the simon and schuster rep, and she wanted me to come and sit at the table with tony swofford (wrote a gulf war memoir called jarhead...heck of a writer...drank us all under the table last time he was...
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aster:
that is a very sad story. i myself erupted into giggles recently over a Mad spoof of the A Series of Unfortunate Events series.

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lunabelle:
Glad you kept me on your list long enough to witness my, albeit temporary, resurrection!

I may be in and out in the future.
How are you?

Maybe the guy in the argyle socks was laughing inside..Or perhaps his life itself or atleast that particular moment was a silent tribute to laughter. after all, he was wearing argyle socks and reading Mad magazine on a bus. He might have been wearing sock garters and positively beeming on the inside. I'd like to imagine so.

Thursday Mar 18, 2004

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and now, i will sing you a song:

after the ball was over
annie took out her glass eye
set her cork leg in the corner
took out her bottle of rye
put her false teeth on the table
hung her false hair on the wall
and the rest of dear annie went bye bye
after the ball...

i sing because i love you.

love
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thephantomvi:
It's definitely hum-able...
clara:
I love it too. Imagine if you'd used the "I tried and I try tried/But still you say that I lied/Nobody's perfect so leave me if you object" portion of the song.
tongue

Tuesday Mar 16, 2004

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and as good as my word, i stayed up until 2am reading the master and margarita.

one of you out there asked me to suggest a book, and i think i suggested 20.

so, let this be a warning to the rest of you. don't ask me to suggest a good book. i have a problem.

this morning i watched four short documentaries about...
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vutek:
do you like these mail chutes?
?

of course you do. i like walking by one every day.

Monday Mar 15, 2004

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i did all the things on my sunday list, and a few more.

just finished stone reader. it's a documentary about a writer named dow mossman and his first and only novel, the stones of summer. it's also a two hour love letter to reading.

i will now go read.
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linz:
get your read on my bruthah!
thirtyseven:
i'm afeared we have nothing in common!

Sunday Mar 14, 2004

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lazy sunday afternoon.

should i:

a) do the dishes
b) clean the cat box
c) type out a few of the stories i have in my notebooks
d) chase emmett around the apartment like a madman
e) go back to bed
pharaoh:
f) smoke a bowl and watch The Godfather.
catdad:
You've probably already decided, but my personal favorite would be e. d is a close second, but wouldn't take as long, so I'm thinking you could do d and one of the others.

Thursday Mar 11, 2004

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michel gondry is pretty fascinating. someone loaned me a dvd with his videos and short films.

i'm reading a book called bobby fischer goes to war. it's about bobby's attempt to break the soviet stranglehold on the world chess championship. fischer was a genius. he was also (is also, i guess) quite a wack job.

spalding drowned. he has a famous monologue called swimming...
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thephantomvi:
Hmmm....I forgot about the Swimming poster. Nice catch.
Sometimes you have to make light of it....there were plenty of times when my dad and I would joke around in the embalming room. Nothing really rude or disrespectful, but most people wouldn't understand why things were funny to us. There were even some really funny moments at my grandfather's funeral, like the octogenarian riflemen arguing and firing off cue during the 21 gun salute.
themodernist:
Soon to be published? You wacky insider you. I can't wait to read the new Ames.

Monday Mar 08, 2004

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i slept through the first hour of weekday with steve scherr. he was talking to a panel about women and iraq. i dreamt i was in the studio with them.

once before, i have fallen alseep to steve scherr and he (plus guest) has invaded my dreams. he was talking to anthony vidler about architecture. i dreamt i was in a huge gehry hotel, swimming...
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pharaoh:
i think it's "heil to the chief"
pharaoh:
yo:

i'm leaving at the crack of dawn to go to Mesa for some Cubs spring training/visiting the parents action. yea-uh.
biggrin

Sunday Mar 07, 2004

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today i am proud of my city and my mayor.

weird.

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pharaoh:
is that cause you're all gay up there now?

it's like a gay tidal wave that's sweeping the nation.

woooooo!!! shirtless parties on capitol hill! (capital?)

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pharaoh:
re: name that tune

Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald?
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