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Monthly Archives: August 2001

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Saturday, August 25, 2001

Yesterday evening I was walking over to Safeway to get some ice cream. Halfway through the Safeway block, I looked up and saw Lisa walking toward me. I was a little surprised – this isn’t her neighborhood. When I said “Hi, how you doing?” and she started to respond, the guy that she was walking [...]

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Some Other Day

Wednesday, August 22, 2001

Our fine summery weather has been replaced today with a consistent drizzle interrupted occasionally by minor downpours. A good day for reading, you say? Well on that note, I started Don Quixote again yesterday. I’m not sure I’ll get through it, since I’ve already gone in search of other reading material. First, I went over [...]

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Sense, Scale

Sunday, August 19, 2001

Catching up with Lisa yesterday, I was pleased to think about how she always has an ongoing secret project tucked away somewhere. She’s just finished a class in documentary film-making and today she’s competing in a triathlon. (Which briefly brings to mind my friend Cedric, who within a short period after I met him released [...]

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Broadway & Pine

Thursday, August 16, 2001

These are strange days and I’m starting to convince myself that this is a strange place. Appropriately, with this essay about the re-gentrification/suffocation of Pike/Pine (from nine months ago) and this current, less personal editorial about the simple degeneration of Broadway, the Stranger chronicles two contradictory phenomenon. How can they both be true? More on [...]

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A brick, sanded down to a red pebble

Thursday, August 9, 2001

Myrtle-Edwards Park, I sit down on the beach and soak in the sun. I laugh at my t-shirt and jeans, they’re practically my uniform, I never wear anything else. A nice breeze, I lay back against a log and read my book. A steady stream of joggers go by on the path above me. A [...]

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You Like Lists?

Tuesday, August 7, 2001

Six things that are true, one that isn’t true, and three books I own but haven’t read (in no particular order): 1. At the zoo, I saw a monkey slip between the bars of its cage into another cage. No one else noticed and I didn’t tell anybody. 2. Don Quixote 3. At a bar [...]

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List-maker’s Return

Tuesday, August 7, 2001

I’m not so much writing as I am listing. In place of 1, 2, 3′s, I’m using “I said”, “I went”, “anyway”, and “so”. Inspiration strikes, I may just as well compose a top ten bands list.

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Monday, August 6, 2001

There’s a little picture of a maple leaf on the label of the brand of maple syrup that I get, so I thought that it must be made in Canada. Then I realized that as maple syrup, it has an excuse to have a maple leaf on the label without being Canadian. But then I [...]

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Crushed

Wednesday, August 1, 2001

I got this email on Monday morning: “Guess what… you’ve got a secret admirer! Want to find out who it is? Just click to [URL excised]!” I immediately suspected one friend who might be teasing me. I considered calling her on it, but I had some doubt and wondered if someone else may have registered [...]

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