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Super Secret Agent Phone

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009

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I volunteer as a tutor at 826 Chicago. It is a pretty wild gig with kids running all over the place all ready to learn whatever I can teach them. The gig is ostensibly a creative writing program, but we work on homework and art and all manner of cool stuff. Lex goes (more than [...]

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LEGO + Lamp = Awesome

Friday, August 29th, 2008

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I just don’t know if there is anything I can say to this. It is a lamp. A lamp made our of clear LEGO blocks. Have I died? Am I dead right now and this is where you go if you’ve recently been a very good person who just happened to walk into a train? [...]

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Particularly Awesome

Friday, August 29th, 2008

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As though plushy microbes and Albert Einstein action figures weren’t enough, The Particle Zoo has gone and made something else to totally entangle my attentions. At around a tenner for each particle, it may be a while before you get them all – but you know you will need to get them all. You know [...]

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Coastertoast.com is Alive

Saturday, April 12th, 2008

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You’re out in the wild, doing your thang thang, and you get the approach. Maybe you’re at a bar and you should expect this, or maybe you’re just on the train on the way to work; you get that doe eyed look from someone you’ve never seen before – or perhaps you’ve met him/her only [...]

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Your Childhood Was a Goddamned Lie

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

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Lex and I took in a midnight showing of Transformers: The Movie last Saturday night at the Music Box. It was truly an event beholden of the markedly epic dreams I had as a child of doing things exactly like this when I became an adult. The idea that I’d be in the theater watching [...]

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