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Are train romances dead?

nobody@vox.com(Red Headed Stranger) — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 13:37:29 -0800

Great photo and note on a recent obsession of mine at Treehugger.

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This is hilarious, hits a little close to home...

nobody@vox.com(Red Headed Stranger) — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 12:24:17 -0800

THE children whispering and fidgeting in front of the stage at Union Hall in Park Slope, Brooklyn, looked like any kids awaiting, say, a storyteller. Then Zora Sicher and Hugo Orozco, the two 11-year-olds who make up the band Magnolia, climbed onstage and broke into a hard-driving original song called “Volume.” It was clear this was not quiet time.

“Wooooo!” a dreadlocked woman shouted from the back of the room, where a crowd of adults, many in vintage concert T-shirts and cardigans, looking like kids themselves, cheered and sipped bloody marys.

For this set of performers and audience members, indie rock is as familiar as a lullaby. “We like punk, classic rock, metal, riot grrrl,” said Hugo, an elfin-face sixth grader from Brooklyn, who was given her first drum set at 7.

New York Times, 11/19/06

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Call me Inert today

nobody@vox.com(Red Headed Stranger) — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 11:03:25 -0800

Etymology: Latin inert-, iners unskilled, idle, from in- + art-, ars skill -- more at ARM
1 : lacking the power to move
2 : very slow to move or act : SLUGGISH
3 : deficient in active properties; especially : lacking a usual or anticipated chemical or biological action
synonym see INACTIVE

Thinking of You

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Last week's haiku on the No 7 bus

nobody@vox.com(Red Headed Stranger) — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 19:35:54 -0800

Pink

Talking nu metal
With boy I don’t remember
Sigh, not my best move

Third doom show this week
This town has no pretty boys
My ears are bleeding

Nannytown: no fun
Noon: Order coffee and beer
Waitress: suspicious

Cosmopolitan?
When did you become fancy?
I wished, “old man drink.”

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my first haiku since 6th grade

nobody@vox.com(Red Headed Stranger) — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 06:11:14 -0800

Pineapple express
Will Oldham show is sold out
I watch Wholphin doc

So I need some practice I'm rusty.

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I'm inspired to waste time in a new way!

nobody@vox.com(Red Headed Stranger) — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 20:41:44 -0800

Done with long letters and mysterious packages East, definitely done with Web 2.0 and making a fool out of myself via Web 2.0, too busy with S to knit or sew, unable to garden in the winter, likely 86ed on the potlatch due to aforementioned Web 2.0, I have found a new hobby: haiku. My inspiration. Here's an example (not mine):

"Good drinking game
Guess which college she went to
Brown or Oberlin?"

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wet

nobody@vox.com(Red Headed Stranger) — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 03:00:23 -0800

Etymology: Middle English, partly from past participle of weten to wet & partly from Old English w[AE]t wet; akin to Old Norse vAtr wet, Old English wæter water
1 a : consisting of, containing, covered with, or soaked with liquid (as water) b of natural gas : containing appreciable quantities of readily condensable hydrocarbons
2 : RAINY <wet weather>
3 : still moist enough to smudge or smear <wet paint>
4 a : DRUNK 1a <a wet driver> b : having or advocating a policy permitting the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages <a wet county> <a wet candidate>
5 : preserved in liquid
6 : employing or done by means of or in the presence of water or other liquid <wet extraction of copper>
7 : overly sentimental
8 British a : lacking strength of character : WEAK, SPINELESS <thought him wet and violence petrified him -- William Golding> b : belonging to the moderate or liberal wing of the Conservative party

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soak

nobody@vox.com(Red Headed Stranger) — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 13:49:09 -0800

Pronunciation: 'sOk
Function: verb
Etymology: Middle English soken, from Old English socian; akin to Old English sucan to suck
intransitive verb
1 : to lie immersed in liquid (as water) : become saturated by or as if by immersion
2 a : to enter or pass through something by or as if by pores or interstices : PERMEATE b : to penetrate or affect the mind or feelings -- usually used with in or into
3 : to drink alcoholic beverages intemperately
transitive verb
1 : to permeate so as to wet, soften, or fill thoroughly
2 : to place in a surrounding element (as liquid) to wet or permeate thoroughly
3 : to extract by or as if by steeping <soak the dirt out>
4 a : to draw or take in by or as if by suction or absorption <soaked up the sunshine> b : to intoxicate (oneself) by drinking alcoholic beverages
5 : to cause to pay an exorbitant amount

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bittersweet

nobody@vox.com(Red Headed Stranger) — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 05:25:08 -0800

Function: adjective

1 : being at once bitter and sweet; especially : pleasant but including or marked by elements of suffering or regret <a bittersweet ballad>

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allure

nobody@vox.com(Red Headed Stranger) — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 05:22:19 -0800

Function: noun
: power of attraction or fascination : CHARM

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