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TAR: You’re Off The Hook This Week

October 4th, 2005 · No Comments · Clan: McTiVo

Well, crap. I screwed up the priority on TiVo and Amazing Race: The Lame Edition didn’t record. On the other hand, we get to see Commander in Chief before Saturday, when it repeats. So every cloud has its silver lining.
Last season, and every season before that, this would have been a catastrophe on an [...]

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Father, Son, and Holy Shit

October 4th, 2005 · No Comments · Hot Off The Presses

Okay, usually I’m not one for seeing a lot of humor in blasphemy. But then I don’t see a lot of humor in intolerance from a son, when a famous father is known for… these types of things.
CNN.com - Franklin Graham sees?’revival’ for New Orleans - Oct 4, 2005
Graham, the son and designated successor [...]

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Sox Win!

October 4th, 2005 · No Comments · Hot Off The Presses

Either way, I’m PSYCHIC.
Okay, the Chicago White Sox are playing the Boston Red Sox today, first game of the AL division championships. Several of my cow-orkers are very excited and nervous just now.
Actually, the White Sox were doing alright until just now when I walked into the break room to watch a couple [...]

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Smoke Over New York

October 4th, 2005 · No Comments · Hot Off The Presses

A tanker truck exploded in flames in the Bronx a short time ago - I was watching live TV via CNN at lunch. They don’t know much about it and were carefully not saying “terrorism” or anything, but it’s totally disrupted traffic and rail in the Hunts Point area, near a bridge. Apparently Amtrak runs [...]

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Thankfully Brief Encounter

October 4th, 2005 · No Comments · Uncategorical Weirdness

I was accosted just now in the cafeteria here at work; a rather odd young woman came up to me while I was looking at some new brand of energy drink called “lost.” I wondered aloud if the world really needed a beverage for fans of a TV show about people and polar bears [...]

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