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New Year Filler

January 1st, 2007 · No Responses

You gotta have an art form you really respect. Be it playing football as a receiver, hitting baseballs, reading poetry, surfing big waves or painting, you need to witness this art form in person. Watch the people you respect most do the thing they do in person. Get that feeling in your abdomen, the feeling [...]

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Tags: Grave Generalization · Life · Music

Rain In My Butt

December 22nd, 2006 · 4 Responses

Why is everything such a pain in the ass?
Why is everything such a pain in my ass?
Why, when I got to (finally) clean the garbage out of my car, is the last piece of paper just out of reach from the curb side?
Why, when I step off the curb to get a better angle to [...]

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Tags: Grave Generalization · Life · Portland · Society · Vinceland

Da’ Meaning

October 27th, 2006 · 11 Responses

So Madonna wrongly adopted/ bought/ stole a child from Africa.
So Google is taking over the world.
So Bushie don’t know the Internets from the Intelligents
There’s not much we can do today about those things, except get smarter than they are.
Meghan and I watched NOVA the other night, I made her watch it. I am on the [...]

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Tags: Action Sports · Family · Fellows · Grave Generalization · Life · Society · Vinceland · Work

Oregon Assholes

October 11th, 2006 · 7 Responses

Been here almost 8 months, haven’t met an asshole from Oregon yet.
I know they exist here. I’m sure there are asshole barkeeps, asshole business owners, asshole politicians, asshole parking lot attendants, asshole post office desk clerks, etc… I just have yet to meet a complete asshole from Oregon.
I’ve seen asshole driving, mostly on the highways. [...]

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Tags: Grave Generalization · Life · Portland · Society · Vinceland

Days After Tomorrow

October 1st, 2006 · 12 Responses

Things are moving pretty fast these days. I think they’re moving faster than they did even in the early 1900s. My parents have seen TV go from the earliest crappy picture boxes to thousands of channels in HD, ITV delivered wirelessly through multiple devices.
I’ve realized, though that there are some changes going on around us [...]

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