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Street talk
Last night I sat on a comfy red couch with my pals Amy and Amanda and talked about all the hilarious things that had been yelled to us by people on the street during our times in cities. Amy shared stories about the leering/catcalling street folk Downtown, and Amanda told us about the time the ubiquitous aggressive white lady (you can see her from Downtown to East Memphis, if you pay attention) tried to get…
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Conversations with the Rite Aid clerk — famous actress edition
Clerk [as I place a bag of cat food and a half gallon of skim milk (the official purchase of cat ladies everywhere) on the counter]: You look like the actress Karen Allen! I saw her on TMZ the other day. Me: Oh, really? Thanks! [stops to think of who Karen Allen is and comes up with the squeaking sounds of a vacant cranial mouse wheel] Uh, is that good or bad? I’m not sure…
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Surreality, cont’d
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’
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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It’s been a really weird day
Just a little bit ago, I was pulled up to a stop sign, getting ready to take a left onto Nelson from Cox, when I see this red Echo that’s heading east on Nelson screech to a halt right in front of the intersection. I think at first that maybe I’m pulled out too far and the driver thought he was going to hit me, but I look and, no, I’m not out in the…
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Snowtography*
So, I said I was ready for spring. And I am. But this snow … it’s awesome. I don’t want it to melt. In fact, I’m afraid to go to sleep because when I wake up tomorrow it might be gone. And then we’ll go back to the same bony black trees and dead grass and, gah, if it can’t be white then why can’t it be green already? [More photos here.] *I’m stealing Chris…
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Creepy
Storm stuff I totally forgot to mention: • Last night as the wind kicked up and howled around the buildings downtown, we watched with nervousness as the giant plate-glass windows that front our newsroom bent and bowed with every gust. I just kept imagining them flying out of their frames and into the newsroom, crashing into cubicles and giving out concussions. • On the way home, blocks and blocks of Midtown were pitch black without…
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