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Entries from January 2008

Dear Neighbors,

January 9th, 2008 · 1 Comment

I don’t know much about exterior illumination, but I do know this:
Christmas lights blanketing a house two weeks before Christmas is lovely, hopeful, and heartwarming. Christmas lights blanketing a house two weeks after Christmas is depressing, sad, and lazy.
What, pray tell, are you celebrating ten days into the New Year? I’m pretty sure, [...]

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Your Pants Made Me Homeless!

January 5th, 2008 · No Comments

I don’t know about where you live, but here in the Land of Lincoln, a popular sartorial choice is a particular type of pants often referred to as “jeans”. A popular manufacturer of these jeans, should you believe what you see on the television, is a company called Levis.
A recent advertisement for these Levis [...]

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Brrrr.

January 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

Today is horrifically cold. The sort of cold that makes you want to kill the next person you see and bathe in their warm blood before it freezes. It makes waiting for the bus that much more pleasant.
Apparently, the next phase in the Chicago Transit Authority’s grand scheme to make it impossible [...]

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Happy New Year To All! (Except You, PA)

January 2nd, 2008 · 2 Comments

I hope everyone had a delightful holiday season, with the exception of the residents of PA (pronounced “puh”) whom I’m sure suffered through their usual misery in that pathetic excuse for a hellhole that some, apparently without irony, call a state of this great union. PA is sometimes referred to as the Keystone State [...]

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