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31/10/08

Alton, six days old

27/10/08

Gambling & one blogger's endorsement

hi readers. first of all, congratulations to Brian on his amazing and beautiful news. he is a father now, and i look forward to him "blogging" in a frank & self-reflective manner about Fatherhood issues, concerns...Brian!—are you gonna read this?

anyway. i just wanted to share with you a funny independent AD which relates to our upcoming national election. i won't be voting for john mcCain on 11.4.08—not really because of gambling (mostly because he's a dickhead who has run a mendacious/racist campaign—have i used too many em dashes here?), but i might not even get around to casting a provisional ballot for Barack in NY: i'm keeping my powder dry for bed-stuy stoop celebration on inauguration day!

26/10/08

Bud Carew McMüller (nickname)

This is my new baby, Alton Pendragon. Click his face for some news from his mother.



So far, the boy's nicknames include...
  • Bud Carew.
  • Little Chumpler.
  • Young Sportsman (my dad's nickname for him).
  • Champ (Joe Biden's nickname for him).
  • Chauncey Warblechin.

22/10/08

"Order Holiday Lefse Now" — a blog post about lefse that is not about the pervasive stress I feel (and am sort of ashamed about feeling)

On the afternoon of August 12, 1995, I walked into a house in Toledo, Ohio where everyone was talking about lefse — a sort of potato-based tortilla that's very popular in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Norway but unheralded (and virtually unknown) in northwest Ohio, where I lived for 13 of my first 18 years.

  • "Is the lefse ready?," someone said.
  • "When do we get to eat the lefse?," someone said.
  • "Lefse? Yummy, yummy!," someone said.
  • "When do we eat lefse?," someone said.
  • "Will the lefse be ready soon?," someone said.
  • "Hey Brian, have you had lefse?," someone asked.

No. I had never eaten lefse. I'd never even heard of the stuff.

  • "Nope, I haven't eaten lefse," I said. "But I'd like to try some."
  • "You've never eaten lefse?," someone said.
  • "Not yet," I said.
  • "You've never eaten lefse?," someone said.
  • "No," I said.
  • "Do you want it with butter and sugar?," someone asked.
  • "Sugar yes, but no butter, please," I said.
  • "No butter?," someone asked.
  • "No thank you," I said.
  • "I can't believe you don't want it with butter," someone said.
  • "I'd prefer not to have butter," I said.
  • "What?" someone said.
  • "I'd rather not have butter," I said. "But sugar, sure."

I ate the sugared, butterless lefse — I ate it warm, which is a good way to eat homemade things that are supposed to be eaten warm — and I enjoyed it. It was delicious in the way that I bet a fresh homemade tortilla stuffed with sugar would be delicious.

After that first lefse encounter, I never ate another bite of lefse and I never heard another peep about lefse or thought another thought about lefse until today, when a friend from Minnesota mentioned lefse in an email.

  • "Tickets [to the play] are going faster than Grandma's lefse," the friend's email said.

THE END

15/10/08

Honda Contrary

Honda plans to release its first 100% electric car — the Honda "Contrary" — in 2013. Can you believe this? The Honda "Contrary"? It's like a bad pun.

I can already hear the conversations (the commercials?):

MAN 1: Say, friend, I like your new car. Very sporty. Very slick. I bet it guzzles gasoline, though. Right?

MAN 2: Honda Contrary, my friend. Honda Contrary. This car is 100% electric.

14/10/08

Fragonard, Jean-Honoré Fragonard

08/10/08

Sugar of lead

Sugar of lead is a real thing.

Sugar of lead
Color of night
Quantum of solace
Milk of magnesia
Syrup of ipecac
House of tartan

07/10/08

Some books...

Some books encourage me to feel bad.

Some books get touched by bugs.

Some books get "foree," even though that word does not yet have a public meaning. That word ("foree") is copyright me.

Some books get thrown in the trash.

05/10/08

até o sol raiar

i think the first monday morning this vid (of a film!) came into my life was two weeks ago tmrrw. i need to start storing up motivational acorns like this for the oncoming fall/winter

04/10/08

world's tallest jpeg down-arrow



from the crude futures series "world's tallest jpegs"