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this made me laugh, hard:

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NYC Musical Purchases

After going through my San Francisco loot, I decided I needed to encode the Elephant6 CDs that I purchased in New York City (from the excellent “Rocks In Your Head” record store on Prince St.)
Those CDs:

Beulah - Yoko
Marbles - Expo
Ulysses - 010
Pipes You See, Pipes You Don’t - Individualized Shirts
Neutral Milk Hotel - [...]

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riding the storm out

thunder !
maybe it’ll cool things down… I’m not used to this 95-100 degree weather, after a week of 66-74 degrees in Cali.

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sanfran media purchases

I went to several music stores while in San Francisco: Amoeba Records (2 different locations) and Rasputin Music.
Rasputin was a FIVE story building on Powell Street. I went to 2 Ameoba locations (one in Berkeley and one on Haight Street). The Haight location was amazingly large. I didn’t even know [...]

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willy wonka is opening his factory and letting people in!

i’m curious as to how many people went home to watch “Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory” after seeing “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory“.
(Written as I’m sitting on the couch, watching the 1971 movie.)

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corrupting marilyn manson

I’m very amused by some of the “Behind the Scenes” featurettes on the Party Monster DVD…
In one interview, Macaulay Culkin told how he bought a pack of cigarettes for Marilyn Manson (whose character “Christina” kept an unlit cigarettes in her mouth). That was Marilyn Manson’s first pack of cigarettes EVER. Macaulay Culkin corrupted [...]

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i left by BART, in San Francisco

i have returned from San Francisco… landed late Saturday evening, and slept 24 hours (out of 36) Sunday and today (Monday).
Lots of great things there….
highlights:

“hot cookies” and pizza “made and served with pride” in the Castro
Racoon chasing with Corey
7th Annual WebCT Conference
Ethiopian food!
lots of other great food
True Sake

Photos and stories to come…

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The War on Terror (As viewed from the Bourne shell)

from blogs.sun.com/roller/page/ThinGuy?entry=the_war_on_terror_as
The War on Terror
As viewed from the Bourne shell.
$ cd /middle_east
$ ls
Afghanistan Iraq Libya Saudi_Arabia UAE
Algeria Israel Morrocco [...]

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sexual innuendos in harry potter 6

” ‘There was no need to stick the wand in that hard,’ he said gruffly, clambering to his feet. ‘It hurt.’” (p. 64)
“Just as he raised a gloved hand to wipe them, Leanne made to grab hold of the package Katie was holding; Katie tugged it back and the package fell to the ground.” (p. [...]

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