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I can’t possibly be expected to get any work done from this day forward

By theogeo | June 18, 2008 by theogeo

The Spore-izing of my life begins … now. This here’s my first try, aptly named Darwin. (If I had to guess, I’d say probably half of the first batch of Spore creatures will be named Darwin. Originality never was my strong suit.) And this here’s Scrap Heap: Download the Creature Creator trial version here. Unless you’ve got a slightly old Mac (my four-year-old dinosaur doesn’t stand a chance). Then you’re screwed! Check out the Flying…

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You had to be there

By theogeo | June 16, 2008 by theogeo

While playing Apples to Apples tonight, the green apple card called for “cruel.” Someone threw in “Martha Stewart,” which is funny for its own reasons, of course. After it was all said and done, the youngest nephew explained why he had done so: “Casey had told me that she was going to ban hunting!” My sister did a spit-take.

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The importance of proper letter spacing, vol. 2

By theogeo | June 11, 2008 by theogeo

It’s not as bad as this, but it makes me wonder if there is an epidemic of church signs with questionable letter spacing. Which, yeah, obviously, I’m sure there is. I’m trying to figure out if there’s some play on words I’m not getting, or why the words would be arranged this way, and I’ve got nothing. All I know is that telling people they can come be apart of the church family isn’t a…

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Describing Billie

By theogeo | June 11, 2008 by theogeo

I’ve been on a real Billie Holiday kick lately. I attribute this development to something akin to typical mid-twenties labor pains and the fact that it’s already nasty hot and it’s not even summer yet. Putting a Billie Holiday record on has roughly the same effect on a room as turning on an oscillating fan and taking off a couple of layers of clothes. The only way the setting could possibly improve is if you’ve…

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Hitched

By theogeo | June 11, 2008 by theogeo

This weekend I got to witness two fabulous people get hitched in style as the sun set over sleepy Decatur County, Tenn. (site of the last wedding I went to, oddly enough; apparently Parsons/Decaturville is right up there with cinnamon rolls and oysters as an effective aphrodisiac). It was classy and sweet and funny and genuine and all sorts of nice things that made me feel pretty silly for being so (supposedly) unsentimental. I loved…

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Oh, and?

By theogeo | June 4, 2008 by theogeo

:) UPDATE: Um, I was afraid this was going to happen. Note to Newseum: It would be super duper awesome if you’d create permalinks for the daily front page analysis. That way, when bloggers link to, say, the analysis of all the Obama nomination front pages, they don’t come back the next day and see that their link now goes to some malarky about hockey. So, anyway, my smiley was a brief and lazy way…

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While you were sweating

By theogeo | June 4, 2008 by theogeo

Holy hell, it got humid fast. I don’t care if “quickly” is preferred standard English grammar there or not. When you’re talking about humidity, you spit the words out and get it over with and then go back inside and take a bath in iced tea. Mmmm, iced tea. Anyway, I would like to sit and write and write about lots of different things, but my eyes are still dilated from the eye doctor this…

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Surreality, cont’d

By theogeo | May 29, 2008 by theogeo

I notice that BetteDavisLies over at Complacencies of the Peignoir has a post up about strange encounters of late. (If you’re not already reading this blog, may I politely insist that you do so immediately? It’s good stuff.) I have an incomplete and unoriginal theory about the strangeness that periodically seeps through the linen-wrapped Southern spring and summer days: It’s all about the heat. We all go a little more nuts the higher the mercury…

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Jive talkin’

By theogeo | May 23, 2008 by theogeo

I’m convinced that the neighborhood Rite Aid is a magical place after 11:30 p.m. It is guaranteed that if I go there as midnight approaches, something wacky is going to happen. If these strange encounters keep up, I’m going to have to start up ithappenedatriteaid.blogspot.com (don’t any of you bastards steal my idea!). Anyway, last night’s trip for shampoo and gum and face wash was no exception to the wacky late-night Rite Aid rule. I…

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If Twitter was a horse …

By theogeo | May 21, 2008 by theogeo

I’d fucking shoot it. I would have tweeted this nugget of nonsense but, surprise, I haven’t been able to get it working all day.