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Monthly Archives for March 2008

It was a very good month. Dig in. Every entry is a classic.

Free Things

.flickr-photo { } .flickr-frame { float: left; text-align: center; margin-right: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Here’s a photo of the thing from our new camera. We responded to a Craigslist posting the other day that listed 3 free typewriters in a house over by San Diego State. Appearances indicated [...]

Here’s a word for you all to use this week

So, Richard Whitlock wrote a thing called “, or observations on the present manners of the English” in year 1654, in which he wrote the following:  Too severe Censurer (free of the Company of *Pish~mongers) that Pisheth at any thing not exact. This may sound a little fluttery, but Whitlock was talking about “pish,” the [...]

Losing

Dead Chess. I’m really terrible at chess, but I like to play (and lose). Or I guess that “liking” isn’t really any kind of verb I can use for my playing of chess because when I play my blood pressure starts on the increase and sweat materializes in my armpits and I can hear the [...]

My continued correspondence with David Plouffe

Today David wrote to me to interpret yesterday’s events in Ohio and Texas and (I think) to ask for money again (there’s a kind of predictable streak to his emails in that way, but he’s always been like that since he first started emailing me). Anyway, here are some of the highlights from his email [...]

Responding to David Plouffe

David Plouffe keeps emailing me personally to talk interpret Barack Obama’s election “victories” and “losses” and in his emails he perpetually makes a plea for money, which I firmly rebuff because I’m looking for work right now and I can’t afford it. Since David always neglects to respond to the issues I raise in my [...]