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Remember MapQuest?  That website you used to go to to try and figure out directions on their tiny little black-and-white map with the big red stars on it?  Then you’d print out the maps and the directions on thirty or forty sheets of inkjet paper?  Y’know, old school turn-by-turn directions.  You know, back before Google came out with Google Maps, and you never went back to MapQuest ever again, cz Google was so much prettier and bigger and easier and better?

Yeah, MapQuest!  You remember now.

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Now first I have to say that I really don’t like the Avett Brothers.  I’m not an expert or anything; I’ve only heard eight or ten songs or so, but what I’ve heard I don’t particularly care for.  It’s fine for you if you like banjo music in amongst your ballads, but it’s not for me.  

But I’ve heard people talk about how the Avett Brothers are great and how this music or that reminds them of the Avett Brothers, and I don’t get it.  I think it’s cz they’re acoustic.  I think that for some reason if music is acoustic, it is therefore understood that it is great.  

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Warning:  Lots of filthy language

I FEEL LIKE A BULLET
(IN THE GUN OF ROBERT FORD)
elton john

like a corn in a field, I cut you down
I threw the last punch too hard
after years of going steady
well I thought that it was time
to throw in my hand for a new set of cards

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This song makes me sad.  I’m not sure why.  Maybe it’s the severe depression. 

SEVEN YEARS
norah jones

spinning, laughing, dancing
to her favorite song
a little girl
with nothing wrong
is all alone

eyes wide open, always hoping
for the sun
and she’ll sing a song to anyone
that comes along

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So we got home yesterday and I went out in the front yard with Annalise, where she is fond of going, and off in the distance I saw Jinx the cat batting around a live mouse!

So I gleefully rushed over with Annalise to show her her first real life mouse!  So we shooed Jinx away and crouched down and watched the mouse expectantly, to see it scurry and dart and squeak and wrinkle its little mouse nose and flick its little mouse tail and maybe eat a piece of cheese and just generally do what mice do.

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“I had a funny feeling as I saw the house disappear, as though I had written a poem and it was very good and I had lost it and would never remember it again.”

                      –Raymond Chandler

So I took Annalise to daycare.  I unstrap 14 belts and extract her from her baby roll cage and walk her up the sidewalk.  The Daycare Lady opens the door for me and we start with the small talk about the weather.  I put Annalise down inside the door and go into my pocket for the check for the lady.  She thanks me and then there’s more small talk.  So as I have a very low tolerance for small talk, when I’ve had all of it I can take I look down at Annalise, still standing dutifully in front of me, to tell her goodbye.

She’s staring past me toward some not-significant spot outside.  Her little eyes are flooded and brimming with tears and her little mouth is all twisted together and quivering.

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When you’re mixing up a cocktail of various things like vinegar and hydrogen peroxide and carburetor cleaner to make an elixir for the purpose of pouring it in your ears to try and unblock them after your debilitating two-week-long ear-slash-sinus infection, can you substitute teriyaki sauce for the vinegar?

Oh, wait, here’s the vinegar.

Yes, this is the kind of thing that goes on when my wife goes out of town.

Lorna Posley
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wrote:

Taylor has a voice that makes my body feel funny… in a good way. I try to dress like Taylor whenever I get a chance by copying her style lol. She is not like the other psycho party girls in Hollywood because she acts like a lady. Haters can continue hating and I will keep on loving Taylor! God is nice enough to give us Taylor and we shouldnt be wishing the worse on her.

Jan 31, 10:02 PM
in response to Required Christmas Viewing 1

(aside to camera) Speaking of psycho party girls…

But still, after all this time, I’m sure Taylor Dayne will be very happy to know that someone still cares.  (And so strongly!)  Was it Love Will Lead You Back that sent you over the brink into madness?  Yeah, that one almost got me too.

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The Biathlon is the coolest of all Olympic events, winter or otherwise.  I mean, dudes skiing around in the snow with sniper’s rifles slung to their backs, just skiing around and shooting things.  Figureskating?  YAWWWNNNNNNNNN.  Curling?  So you slide things over ice onto a target.  Well I think what you’ve got there is shuffleboard.  The luge?  I think if instead of a person, you dropped a big giant bag of flour onto the sled when the gun went off, its score would be about the same.   And there’d be a lot less unnecessary loss of life.

No, the biathlon is far superior to any of this.  But that’s not to say it couldn’t stand some improvement.  What sort of improvements, you ask?  Well I’ll tell you.
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BLUER THAN BLUE
michael johnson

after you go
i can catch up on my reading
after you go
i’ll have a lot more time for sleeping

and when you’re gone, looks like things are gonna be a lot easier
life’ll be a breeze, you know
i really should be glad

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