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Monthly Archives: July 2008

Born Standing Up

Friday, July 25, 2008

Steve Martin’s autobiography wasn’t as funny as I was expecting. I assumed it would be the same flavor of wacky banjo silliness as he’s done elsewhere, or the SNL Wild and Crazy Guys-type goofiness. It’s not. He’s calm and introspective, even sedate, in his analysis of his own life–the events which shaped him, family, career, [...]

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The Revolution

Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Finally. Ron Paul wrote a book explaining what he thinks on pretty much every political subject, focusing heavily on economics. It’s easy to understand–he doesn’t pull out any huge words or difficult concepts, and he explains himself and what he proposes we do as a country. I’ve been frustrated with the lack of political options–especially [...]

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Let Us Quickly Hasten to the Gate of Ivory

Monday, July 7, 2008

Thomas M. Disch committed suicide a few days ago, and I watched all the writer and artist bloggers to whom I subscribe mourn his passing. I hadn’t read anything by Disch until today and, honestly, hadn’t heard of him either. He was a poet, a short story and novel writer, and critic; he won several [...]

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Busking with the Bulls

Wednesday, July 2, 2008

Last weekend, Tofer, Philip, Brad and I, as Dapper Dandy and the Good Day Sirs! (sans Amy) went busking outside the Durham Bulls stadium.  We roamed around for a bit, looking for a good spot.  There weren’t too many people around, so we started playing outside Mellow Mushroom, but got chased away by a Segway [...]

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NeoBudget

Tuesday, July 1, 2008

So I found an efficient, very cheap way to keep track of my budget.  And I’m all about cheap (or free) things. It’s a site called Neobudget, and it’s based on the envelope method (which they explain).  It took me a little while to get into it, because I’m lazy, but budgeting by envelopes is [...]

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