Category: random thoughts
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Notes toward an Autobiography
I have developed a new obsessive-compulsive behavior. Before I can read a magazine, I go through and remove all the blow-in subscription cards. After that, I go from cover to cover and tear out any advertising (or advertorial) printed on stock heavier than the rest of the magazine, typically cologne/perfume samples and tobacco ads (I’m […]
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Countdown to Mexico: 3 days.
Last night: dreaming of running out of pesos.Dreaming of bacterial food, of getting lost in Mexico, misunderstanding the taxi situation. I did not sleep well. Three days until Mexico. This won’t be my longest international trip. I spent 22 days in Europe when I was 16 and two weeks in Belgium when I was 18. […]
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The Compulsion to Repeat Sounds
C. Dale linked to this article, in which a self-professed life-long lover of poetry laments the reduction of poets writing what he calls “rhyming verse.” It always irritates me when I hear this discussion, not because I think rhyming is lame, but because people are obsessed with repetition when it comes to rhyme. And they […]
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