it was ushered in by paolo nutini:


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as usual, with the disclaimer that naturally many things in our life are far from rosy: things have been falling together pretty nicely ( Read more... )

most of us are given our primary names and a myriad of secondary names. some of us choose our own primary name, and often some of our secondary names. names are a funny thing ( Read more... )

i laughed out loud just now. twice. i'm reading the deposition testimony of one of our witnesses and he went to college in great falls, montana, which is where i went for a trial around halloween of 2009. i know it's the 3rd-largest city in the state, but still....

and so just after that i went to glance at the wiki page on great falls, and ( Read more... )

but great stories seem fabricated by virtue of their greatness ( Read more... )

in addition to giving me songs that fit the 'all alone awake at 4am on the day before halloween' (the specials - ghost town), in about a 5-song span, he shifted from one version of my sonata (i don't know who plays on that version) at song #18176 in the catalogue, to the version of the sonata performed by paul rosenthal and edward auer at song # ( Read more... )

i occasionally check my online fortune cookie. not as often as i have in the past, but few things i did i do regularly now ( Read more... )

despite hungering for more, i have to acknowledge being very fortunate that in four of the seven years i've lived in detroit (four in a row no less), the tigers have won their division. it's no mean feat this fourpeat. (outside of the evil empire) especially in this era of parity in which the world series champion from last season finished last in ( Read more... )

the greatest quarterback the detroit lions had ever had (they haven't had many great ones) was bobby layne. in 1958 when the lions traded him away to the steelers (another pittsburgh connection) he supposedly (and successfully) cursed the team with 50 years of failure ( Read more... )

i think it's just one of those odd coincidences that my epiphany has fairly to do in a few ways with pearls (i even inserted the word into my previous entry) and i did not recall, was only just reminded by wiki, that today is pearl harbor remembrance day. hawaii's in my blood, i've always said.