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Smoking with the Babe
We were just arguing over who he really was. He said that he was incorrigible. That’s the word they gave him. He just couldn’t sit still and didn’t want to read. He just wanted to play. Just a big bag of meat that wanted to run. The truth is that I worry about your health.… Continue reading
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Jibberish
Man Leaning on a Crutch with Left Arm RaisedAlexandre Hesse, French, 19th century Back when I used to play, I had this incredibly interesting habit of going for a walk with a baseball bat. It wasn’t like it was a tough neighborhood and I certainly don’t remember trying to represent myself as any kind of… Continue reading
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Sunday morning delicious breakfast meeting
Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Glad to see everybody here and in a good mood. We have a big week coming up. Week number seven. Do we have any lingering questions or commentary about issue number 6? We lost Lu San. Well, we didn’t lose him. He’s just not here at the moment. And… Continue reading
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Sunday morning meeting
Okay, let’s at least attempt to show that we are awake and alive and ready to go back to work. We are not awake or alive nor are we ready to go back to work. I understand that. I just want you to pretend. Fine. What’s the story, chief? Let’s just get some thoughts together… Continue reading
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Ballot initiative
It is up for a vote this week whether the phrase “If you can’t be reasonable, get off the planet.” should be considered reasonable for public offering. There are those who consider it violent to even suggest that another should harm themselves for the practical purpose of making the world a better place. However, there… Continue reading
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Early Sunday morning meeting
Good morning, good morning, good morning. Week five of the Utopian and week 20 overall. What’s the story? I think we’re getting better at this. We are and we are not. We have too much work to do. Yes, but we are better than we were. Okay, this is not the time to pat each… Continue reading
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Sunday morning fire meeting
Good morning good morning, good morning. I know this is a little earlier for some of you than you are comfortable with. But that’s what makes this a great newspaper.It’s not necessarily a great newspaper. It’s a newspaper and it might be great but we cannot say empirically that it is already great. I read… Continue reading
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Back in business
Good morning. Happy Friday and we’re not quite done yet. Yesterday I put a good solid dent in things and I’ve got a nice combination of creative work and bureaucratic make work to finish this number. Though it is not finished yet, you’re welcome to look and the new link can be found here: The… Continue reading
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Just in case
I don’t remember if I posted anything today. If I didn’t, today was a pretty good day. We made good headway on this journal. I think we’re going to make it. And we have this new blog. Things are happening. There’s optimism. That’s it. I didn’t really want to say more. I just have one… Continue reading
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Idea for a meme
Worker number four says “Shut the fuck up!” And hot darn it, we have got ourselves a merch business. This is on a t-shirt. Continue reading
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