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Thoughts/feelings that just might not matter:
Sorry for the late entry today. I had to recover from the 3-day mini-tour, which I shall discuss…now.
On Day 1, last Friday, sweet Maggie took me to the airport early in the morn. Righteous! For some reason, this was a heavy travel weekend, especially on Southwest. As you may know, Southwest Airlines absolutely rules, unless it’s crowded. It seemed like there were an awful lot of very young people and very old people, and they were fascinated with/confused by the whole transportation system. I honestly wondered if there was a Folks Who Struggle with Modernity convention in Portland. But I didn’t have to talk to anyone, and I got some reading done. Bonus!
One quick note, a teenage girl on a cell phone, talking & laughing loudly throughout her entire conversation, uttered the words, “You know, I don’t like being around retarded people, but I tried to take some pictures for you.” Your guess is as good as mine.
Anyhoo, Ms. Raina Rose picked me up in her hippied-out Dodge van, and we headed straight for Seattle. Coming from Austin, 92 degrees felt positively pleasant. I quickly learned that Oregon features zero sales tax and full service gas stations. Washington lacks both. We arrived several hours later at the Trabant Chai Lounge near the University of Washington. That’s where my adventure will continue tomorrow…
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Pics of Southpaw & his environ:
Exploring my outer dork on Flight 434 from Phoenix to Austin. World weary. Close to a nose pick.
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Lazy Links
Something way more entertaining that I can offer:
Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant in two “training” videos for Microsoft UK.
Check it out!
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Freshly-picked quotes from the ol’ reference collection:
Delusion is pretty major. The idea that someone can’t understand where they are in the world is interesting and very common. It happens in every place of work. I guess I’ve looked at music, theatre and films because that’s all I’ve known for the past 35 years. But I truly believe that you can arbitrarily pick something out of a hat and find something funny about it because the same characters inhabit and face the same troubles as everyone else. I went to a model train shop just to listen to the people talking. I thought ‘this is a movie in itself’. It was very deep, the way these adults were talking about their trains.
Christopher Guest on comedy
Spike Gillespie presents
A look at our past, / seventeen syllables and / three lines at a time:
John Travolta is
disco dance personified.
(What WERE we thinking?)
Thank you, come again!
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