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Blow 'em Away c Chuck Brodsky


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Added by mike whitney on June 14, 2009 at 5:14pm — No Comments

Folding a cat is easier

There is this Poe-like chill that creeps up on me like cheap underwear when confronting new technological toys. Even now, when translations have become more understandable, I dread reading manuals. Better to take ten times as long through trial and error - assuming I manage to avoid seeing smoke rise from the newest contraption before it blinks and goes black - then read the fucking manual. I have lost friends begging for help, a second and third time; I grovel; I try ingratiating, it's patheti… Continue

Added by mike whitney on April 7, 2009 at 8:12am — No Comments

Drop That Book and Assume the Position!

We didn't know POTUS was staying at the Beverly Hilton on Santa Monica Blvd; it was rush hours coming down the boulevard; sister Nancy was stopping and going; Shelagh and I - me riding shotgun for this last leg of the journey to West Hollywood Hills, where Uncle Dick and Aunt Ron reside si… Continue

Added by mike whitney on April 3, 2009 at 10:29am — 2 Comments

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