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Yes! I am going to learn all about classical music, blues, and jazz while at work, thanks to Pandora radio. I've always wanted to be someone who knew more about these things than I do. Murakami is constantly writing about jazz records, and I want that kind of banal, estoteric knowledge (although -- ha! -- Aman and I were totally able to whip out ( Read more... )

Everyone seems down lately. Everyone I know on LJ has written some variation of this recently: The winter, the cold. Bleh. Made some new year's resolutions and already haven't kept them. Bleh. Hate life. Bleh. It makes me sad ( Read more... )

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There are strange men crashing about in my kitchen, allegedly turning my stove back on because it had been turned off when some sort of gas leak had been discovered in the building earlier today. I'm kinda sick and was trying to go to bed, and none to happy about this interruption, and also, uh, none too happy that there was a gas leak in the ( Read more... )

Wednesday JANUARY 23rd
Kimya Dawson
Crooked Beak
2318 18th St NW
Washington, DC 20009
7pm
www.crookedbeat.com

Hilary campaigns in a heavily Hispanic neighborhood in Nevada and is, if Jennifer Steinhauer of the NYT can be believed, is greeted with cheers from residents for lines such as "All of our problems are interconnected, but we treat them as if one were guacamole and one were chips”?

Interrrrresting.

Normally, Garrido v. Krasnansky, a divorce case playing out in Vermont family court, would be of little interest to anyone but the couple involved. But the court has ordered the husband to stop posting blog items about his wife and their crumbled marriage, possibly turning an ordinary divorce into a much broader battle over free ( Read more... )

I'm buying a refurbished iPod from the apple store, but I'm having a hard time making a decision. 4gig blue 2nd-generation nano for $99 or 30gig black 2nd-generation regular for $159? I mean, it seems like, well, for an extra $60, I might as well get an extra 26 gigs, but ... it is an extra $60, and do I really need 7,500 songs on my iPod? Wouldn't ( Read more... )