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Words, when spoken out loud for the sake of performance, are music. They have rhythm, and pitch, and timbre, and volume. These are the properties of music, and music has the ability to find us and move us, and lift us up in ways that literal meanings can’t. Do you see?
- President Josiah “Jed” Bartlet, […]

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TOBY
It was my argument a little while ago, when I was arguing in my head.
JOSH
It was a better organized thought in my head. Is she done?

 
BARTLET
I converted it to Celsius in my head.

 
BARTLET
Hang on, I’m doing math in my head.

 
SAM
I could’ve countered that, but I’d already moved on to other things in my head.

 
JOSH
I’m sorry, […]

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Primal Quest Montana - Race Day 4, originally uploaded by Brian Knight Photography.

Wow was that ever painful. I’d like to take this moment to track down and kick […]

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Consumer Reports has finished their annual auto tests and I just finished reading a quick summary of the Top 11 Worst Cars.
I gotta say that the write up for the Jeep Wrangler Unlimited, the #1 Worst.Car.Ever. (2008), is amusing:
Highs: Off-road ability
Lows: Everything else… (Ride, handling, braking, noise, fuel economy, fit and finish, visibility, front seat […]

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Things I might have written many words about had I actually sat down to write them at the time of the event and not now, several days later…
The Best 80s Movie Made In The 90s
Which movie? Why Point Break of course! Keanu, Swayze, Busey… friggin’ John C. McGinley! The […]

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Part I: Last Blood
Clicking to the Style section of the Post today you were confronted with a sort of weird image of the uncredited “Man Dancing in Club” from 1971’s Oscar winning Klute. Don’t remember that guy? Maybe you’ll recall Lincoln Hawk, the struggling trucker trying to regain control over his life and […]

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Looks like a deal has been reached (tentatively) and eventually I might have as much as $600 in my pocket to do with as I please. Instead of stimulating the economy though, I’ll probably end up like Charlie…

From Season 3, Episode 17 “Stirred”
Original Air Date: 27 March 2002
(Teleplay […]

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laundromat, originally uploaded by catbagan. used under a Creative Commons license.
This started off as a simple comment to this post. I was about to write something like “ha ha, that does sound like an excessive amount of laundry. ” But then I got to thinking about the subject a little more and it […]

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The daily digest of Twitter updates is dead, long live Twitter updates!
The Twitter experiment was fun and lives on in the sidebar.  So, if you want to know what I’m up to, or be mystified by the latest inside joke and/or West Wing quote (a whole subset of inside joking), then look right.  Or, click […]

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I began a much longer, way more detailed account of the weekend complete with jokes and nerdy allusions to Star Wars, but it is nearly 3am, and a school night, and so I present instead the following supershortweekendrecap…

My Car Sucks
My Car Is All Better
My Debt Ratio Sucks
My Car Kind Of Sucks Again
(debt ratio also […]

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