• Did Red Bull Jump the Shark?

    October 14, 2012

    Today, a guy named Felix Bumgartner safely jumped from a balloon in outer space, back to earth. His only equipment was a special suit and a parachute. It was pretty
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  • Ode to W.W.

    October 12, 2012

    We wake up and type words into blank spaces hoping that they latch on somewhere. Like filament from a spider. Before this, we kept our words mostly to ourselves. Or
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  • Efficiency

    September 23, 2012

    If you knew you had an hour to live, I bet you wouldn’t waste a second. And yet in daily life, we waste so much time on stupid shit. Like
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  • turning on the mundane

    September 18, 2012

    when I dropped her off for soccer practice, she smacked me on the lips and banged into my tender nose. causing a little blood to appear. i said goodbye. told her
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  • Dear @BestBuy, You Used To Love Me

    September 16, 2012

    12 OCTOBER UPDATE: After several unanswered emails, and tweets that have fallen on deaf ears, it’s clear to me that Best Buy has given up on my appeal for them
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  • Dry

    September 11, 2012

    I woke up at 4 am today. Didn’t intend to. But that’s what happens when your work is so important that you stress out over your ability to make ends
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  • What I Want

    September 8, 2012

    I want one of those kick ass memory foam mattresses for a king-sized bed with mosquito netting where my whole family, including my dogs, can hang out on Sunday mornings
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  • Under

    September 7, 2012

    Preface: Next week I am due to have sestoplasty surgery for the third time in 30 years. The last time I considered it was in 2001. That’s when I wrote this (fictional) story.
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  • Welcome To Charlotte

    August 30, 2012

    Summer 1994. I was driving south on I-77 with my girlfriend. We were leaving Pennsylvania on our way to Florida for a vacation. After hours of driving through mountains and
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