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Archive for January 2012

win a cotton-candy goat

On 19 January 2012

RELAX DON’T DO IT LT gave me a massage gift certificate for my birthday. Normally I hate massage (everyone hurts me ow ow stop that), but this place does both Thai massage and craniosacral. I had the latter once and loved it—afterward I felt like I had taken a very mild dose of shrooms and […]

luxated structure

On 11 January 2012

I CLOSE MY EYES TO IT One of the things Facebook really did right is the notion of unsubscribing vs. unfriending. “I do not wish to cause drama, but I simply cannot continue to view your Jesus/Tim Tebow/kombucha/pro-spanking/homeopathy baloney anymore. Not to mention the incessant Flaming Lips videos.” (Those Facebook sins are not all from […]

display command retreat

On 5 January 2012

WHALING’S THREE LITTLE WORDS I read another whaling book, a history of American whaling called Leviathan. In fact, now that I am Googling the book to make a link I see that the subtitle is indeed “A History of Whaling in America,” how about that. I already knew most of the whaling facts and accounts […]