December 2009
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I had a nice birthday and I love my friends.
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Guys I was like 99% kidding about random strangers showing up to my party by the way. Don’t do that. Unless you’re attractive and desperate.
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I saw Portugal. The Man last night at the Doug Fir. I’ve been aware of them, but never really listened to them. Hot poop they put on a great show. Half the time they reminded me of The Mars Volta, except I actually wanted to listen to them, and the other half they had kind of the normal good-indie-Portland-band thing going on. That’s probably quite possibly the worst characterization...
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Then We Came To The End, Joshua Ferris’ first novel is an entertaining quick read. I feel kind of bad that this book is the one that has reaffirmed that I don’t really enjoy fiction in most cases. The book was very well written, engaging, relevant to my life (it centered around the lives of a Chicago ad firm) but something about fiction just doesn’t do it for me anymore.
There...
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Bacteria Engineered to turn carbon dioxide into... →
No one better rain on my parade. This is amazing.
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I saw Metric for the first time at the Crystal Ballroom last night. Somehow I’ve been completely oblivious to their existence all these years, just really getting into them earlier this year.
They put on an amazing show, had the venue been smaller (or had I not been situated next to flailing-middle-aged-lady or bend-down-to-smoke-a-blunt-asshole) it would probably register in my top three...
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I just finished reading Stubborn Twig by Lauren Kessler. The book tells the true story of the life of a turn of twentieth century Japanese immigrant named Masuo Yasui and the family he starts in Hood River, OR. The story recounts life through the eyes of first and second generation Japanese Americans largely during the dark period of 1940’s internment camps.
Before reading this book I had...
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A little common sense before Obama's announcement... →