Archive for April, 2005
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Tuesday, April 12th, 2005Today is my sweet patoot’s birthday. I’m not gonna gush about how awesome she is, except to say that she’s the best thing that ever happened to me, and that I’d probably be an infinitely more disagreeable person if we’d never met, which is saying a hell of a lot. In lieu of further public [...]
“Workin’ on the Night Moves.”
Monday, April 11th, 2005I had another one of those mornings today where I wake up at some ungodly hour (4:45 a.m., let’s say) and can’t get back to sleep. My father-on-law was staying on our couch, and he had a 6 a.m. flight to catch, which meant he’d booked a cab for 5:00, as surely neither the wife [...]
“Greatest Hits.”
Saturday, April 9th, 2005There were many things I didn’t enjoy about working the copy desk at our local paper. The hours were, like, 85 percent of those things. But there were some truly great parts of the job, and writing headlines was one of them. The best headlines come when both you and your supervising editor (who approves [...]
“The horror … the horror …”
Friday, April 8th, 2005Today, at long last, I’m pleased to present the final installment of our expedition some weeks ago to deep within the heart of east Tulsa. Pack your flak jackets; we’re going deep into VC territory today. (Click Charlene here to begin.)
RRRRRAAAAARRRRGHHH!!!!
Thursday, April 7th, 2005The other day at Target, Erin and I saw the greatest thing yet on the shelf full of new Star Wars toys: What’s so great about the new Chewbacca? According to the packaging and the Hasbro web site, the new Chewie features “Wookiee Rage!!! After spending another perplexing morning trying to figure out what the [...]
“Outage.”
Tuesday, April 5th, 2005So apparently some fucking cocksucker tried so hard to spam the wife and I that the activity nearly crashed the server it’s hosted on, prompting our hosting company to suspend our sites all day until I promised to be more vigilant about blocking spam. Apparently running MT-Blacklist sixteen times a day isn’t fucking vigilant enough; [...]
Attention/Salute/Pledge
Monday, April 4th, 2005No slideshow today, as I was too busy this weekend hooking up our fucking kick-ass new TiVo knockoff, courtesy of the good people at our cable company. (Subsequently, I was too busy watching things I’d TiVoed. Now I’ll never miss another rerun of “The Nanny!”) Here, however, is something chortle-worthy: Tomorrow morning I’ll be speaking [...]
A peek inside.
Friday, April 1st, 2005The conclusion to my whopping photo essay on mildly upsetting East Tulsa will show up here early next week, as it’s, as they say, “not done yet.” In lieu of said essay, I submit for your consideration a piece of typing paper my boss was forward-thinking enough to rescue from the trash can next to [...]
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