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Turns out demolition derbies are awesome.
I had never seen a demolition derby before. They are dangerous, and they pollute, but they are awesome. People lavishly decorate giant 70's and 80's cars, and then each participant smashes his car into other people's cars, until either (a) his car can't move or (b) no one else's car can move. In the first minute of the event we saw a car get ( Read more... ) -
Quintessentially Boston moment
We were in a crowd walking home from a Sox game at Fenway, and we stopped at an intersection to let an ambulance go by. The ambulance was in full-on emergency mode, its lights flashing and its siren beeping and whooping, as it stopped in the middle of the intersection so the driver could ask us who won the game. -
5 signs you opened your vegan ice cream shop prematurely
1. You don't have any decorations.
2. You don't have a printed menu.
3. You don't have a sign.
4. The only drinks in the fridge were left there by the construction crew.
5. The employee who's there to scoop out the ice cream spends five minutes trying to scoop some for you, and can't.
The vegan "Wheeler's Frozen Desserts" has claimed ( Read more... ) -
Your fearish vision of exquisite misery -- It threw me
I've been a bit down today because my favorite band broke up. It happened in 1994.
I just found a comprehensive fansite for Tribe, the local band that rocked my little high-school world. Their music was energetic and melodic and dark, with tight arrangements and a mesmerizing singer. I always regretted that I didn't actually go see them play ( Read more... ) -
Backwards day
Last night I fell asleep early, slept deeply for three hours, then woke up and couldn't fall back asleep. If I haven't slept well I'm usually a wreck; I'll try to get through work without incident today, but when showering just now I washed my hair with something that was not shampoo, so I better not get my hopes up.
EDIT: The fact that I found ( Read more... ) -
Self-intervention
Over the past couple weeks life has gradually decayed into being "what happens when you're waiting for the next KDice game to start." (It's an online board game similar to Risk.) I've played 34 games in the past two days. Today when I listened to "Truce" by the Dresden Dolls it reminded me of the time I eliminated the red and green players ( Read more... ) -
The blog post that might just save my life
Mostly I'm posting this to force myself into action. You see, our dryer has a problem. A fire problem. It's not on fire, nor has it been on fire recently, but it smells like fire some of the time when it's running. It creates a sort of charcoal or kerosene smell that wanders around the apartment like it's looking for somewhere to sit ( Read more... ) -
Spores + MoldEX + 15% bleach solution <> insight
Congratulations are in order to ndanukiwi, who recently explained that the reason she hasn't posted in two and a half months is that she's pregnant. Having not posted for four months, I now feel obligated to stick my head up and assure people that I am not, in fact, having twins ( Read more... ) -
Chicago recap
Komodo dragons! Drama-hogging comedians! Ancient roman speculums! Ferris wheels! Midnight airport bulldozing! Poorly designated dance floors! All this, and a not-to-miss picture of the best rehearsal dinner ever in this Chicago wrap-up ( after the jump. )
