November 2010
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WatchAs promised.
Ineffectual karaoke tricks (Halloween edition).
“Dead Man’s Curve,” by Jan & Dean, can easily be sung to the tune of Bobby “Boris” Pickett’s “Monster Mash.” It makes it sound twice as ghoulish, and it only works on Halloween.
October 2010
22 posts
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House numbers.
1 digit.
You imagine a tiny street, crisscrossing a grid. Utter darkness, completely hidden in the shadows of taller buildings nearby. The houses are seven inches apart. Probably cobblestones. The street is named for a person that has been dead for over 300 years, or for someone on the Mayflower (Brewster, Winslow). The very rarest, the most exotic, especially in the Midwest. I have never lived...
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vickyj asked: Somehow, despite never having fired a single air traffic controller in your life, now there's an Andy Sturdevant International Airport.
-Where is it located?
-What are some notable features?
-What is the three letter airport code?
-Why should I fly into Andy Int'l?
-Where is it located?
-What are some notable features?
-What is the three letter airport code?
-Why should I fly into Andy Int'l?
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Nine couches currently for sale on...
Lakeland, $300
Northeast Minneapolis, $50
Bloomington, $125
North Minneapolis, $50
Lino Lakes, $155
Location unspecified, $50
South Minneapolis, free
Richfield, $30
Chaska, $200
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The surest sign that your blogging hiatus has...
It’s when you have a dream about writing something on your blog. Last night’s situation was even worse, because I dreamt that I awoke from a dream where I’d wanted to write about something. What was my subconscious burying under two layers of dream-ether? Actually, it was three layers, because the dream referred to in the dream-within-the-dream referred to a movie I had seen.
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Dream city.
Below is from a short story by Mickey Hess (you can read it in its entirety here). Mickey is an old friend of mine from Louisville now living in Philadelphia that I’ve written about on a number of occasions:
After I moved to Philadelphia, I had a series of dreams about Louisville, Kentucky geography. I would drive around town, kind of watching myself from above, planning the shortest...
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