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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 [...]

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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. [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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