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Archive for June 2010

refuse an eagle

On 22 June 2010

ALL THE ONE-SYLLABLE BAND NAMES I CAN THINK OF (IN A TWO-MINUTE TIME LIMIT) Ween Blur Rush Seam KISS Cake Phish Lush Yes Slint All Hole Bread Spoon Ratt Squeeze FEWER PENCILS, MANY MORE BOOKS, ZERO TEACHER’S DIRTY LOOKS School is out! No more first grade. I volunteered for an hour or so at the […]

counting backwards

On 15 June 2010

SMALL THINGS I DON’T LIKE 1. The fact that every PowerPoint presentation I have ever seen features seemingly random capitalization on its slides. 2. People being called “haters” for doing really innocuous internet things like DISAGREEING. 3. No rain during the week; rain on the weekends. SMALL THINGS I DO LIKE 1. When Muslim women […]

creeping dread, side of hash browns

On 4 June 2010

STUFF AND DENTISTRY; or, WHAT COULD BE MORE METAL THAN A MOUTH FULL OF BLOOD I saw an older gentleman walking up Michigan Avenue carrying a brown paper file folder labeled with the words FUCK YOU. It was not some punk-rock sticker or anything, it was just Sharpie’d on the file the same way you’d […]