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Maxwell, "Simply Beautiful"

2008-07-02T01:42:57Z

Duringi the Al Green tribute on this year's BET Awards, one of my favorite singers performed one of my favorite songs. As with when he covered Kate Bush's "This Woman's Work", Maxwell's got the chops to actually best an artist while covering th...

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they don't run these ads in the U.S.

2008-06-29T05:59:30Z

As ever, Yahoo's latest efforts are baffling, inexplicable, but still somehow charming. It's like the place is run by an overeager six year old who has no ability but lots of enthusiasm. Anyway, Yahoo Mail's latest brilliant marketing move is "he...

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photo of the day

2008-06-25T14:04:48Z

Because I haven't done one of these in a while, either.

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customer service @ your library

2008-06-25T13:27:26Z

library, originally uploaded by jessiqua. (It's been a minute since I posted over here in Vox-ville, but seeing as how I haven't had the "how much can I talk about the things about my job that annoy me" discussion with my boss yet, "bette...

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the one where i jump ship (sort of)

2008-06-22T02:31:21Z

Look. I'm back with a real live site using traditional blog type software. I've been doing this for awhile so we'll fore go all the pleasantries and just reference a post I wrote on vox back in December. Speaking of vox, i'll probably keep it aro...

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tyrannosaurus dash

2008-06-19T02:21:33Z

My wife has me doing the holy shit 100 pushups thing, which basically ends every other day with doing pushups until you collapse. as a result, my arms are now useless and vestigial, like a tyrannosaurus, and my giant head has only a walnut-sized b...

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about:robots

2008-06-18T06:39:23Z

(We have come to visit you in peace and with goodwill!) About:robots, about about:robots About:robots, about about:robots About:robots, about about:robots About:robots, about about:robots About:robots, about about:robots About:robots, about ab...

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A theory: Hillary's Dean Scream

2008-06-05T05:47:33Z

I should blog this idea while it's still (barely) timely. Yesterday, I was on a plane home to NYC and everyone on the flight had CNN on and was watching, first, Hillary Clinton's non-concession speech and then Barack Obama's acknowledgement that h...

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On being Boddhisattva of the gender non-Euclidean

2008-06-02T19:44:55Z

(inspired by Sarah Dopp) If gender hath its own geometry, its Euclidean arc the eye can mark, then the non-Euclidean girl or guy may also some new queer discussion spark. If boddhisattva be what you are called, it's not a label I'd consider dumb...

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The only problem with Andrew Anker...

2008-06-02T04:42:26Z

...is that you can't make a joke about him that's as good as the truth. "How would you define sexually explicit?"

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