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Monthly Archives: November 2006

The Siren Songs of Surliness

My dad may be an expatriate from Vietnam and all, but in many ways he’s vehemently Midwestern: he loves Budweiser, barbecue, guns, and Christmas music. The morning following Thanksgiving I stumbled into the kitchen, bleary-eyed and wanting breakfast, to be greeted with the strains of “music” blaring from the radio: B-98 FM, the station that [...]

Octopus Garden*

I haven’t been blogging much lately, but one thing I have been doing a lot is knitting. It seems as though I knit all the time, during every bit of free time I get in fact, but I will still never manage to get everything done by the holidays. Despite having a head start of [...]

Red States Lose

…not all that much, really. There’s lots of talk about how many of the elected Democrats are of a curiously conservative variety. Paul Morrison, our new Attorney General, was a Republican that switched party affiliations so that he could run against Phill Kline (blast that superfluous ‘l’, and may I never have to see it [...]

Uncle Quark wants YOU

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