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I should be allowed to print and issue my own stamps
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paulthomas
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I should be allowed to print and issue my own stamps
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if it were to happen, ideally the first wed hear about it would be an understated announcement on Sunday the 18th that the order of speakers was being changed and now Biden was going on Tuesday
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paulthomas
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man, you wouldn't think lightning bugs were real if you hadn't seen them
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it occurs to me that while the rock songs the old guy band played on the parade float yesterday were not as old now as the dixieland jazz played by the old guys at the parade when I was a kid were then, the gap between them is shrinking
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how dare this symphony orchestra play a song that features English Horn on this hallowed day!?!
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contemporary musicians should re-embrace the sound of the echoing, super rattley snare drum
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if you really insist on having your parade marshaled by an abstract concept you need to actually commit and construct a mascot costume that personifies the ideas and can wave from the back of a convertible
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the level of negative energy being thrown off by their table was immense at one point she told him she knew he could only conceptualize cheating in terms of sex but wanted to know if he understood the idea of an emotional affair and why it was a betrayal she picked up the bill
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tonight I witnessed a man in golf clothes and a fresh sun burn tell his fiancée(?) who coldly asked him if he wasn't enjoying the half eaten burger he ordered at the fancy restaurant, "No babe, I already had like 4 hotdogs today; I'm good" harrowing
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Biden should grow a mustache to seem younger and more virile
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re: the dyke march
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oooo, a neapolitan turkey loaf? fancy
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paulthomas
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excited to announce I have a new bit: pronouncing Pittsburgh like Edinburgh
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I get that in the song the line is supposed to evoke the banal ways we commodify a life but Courtney Barnett is right, "aren't pressed metal ceilings great?"
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how do you feel about halved cherry tomatoes that have been tossed in the pot along with diced ones? they seem to have figured out growing cherry tomatoes that taste good year round and it's become my go to way to zhuzh up a mediocre sauce
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just confirming you've had slices of a true vine fresh one from a garden or farmers market because your take is definitely the right one about pulpy, out-of-season, grocery store tomatoes, but fresh caprese salad is one of the best foods that has ever existed
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there's a space on the wall in my new kitchen that's calling out to filled with a portrait of a severe looking old sea captain or maybe a grumpy older italian man
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very excited to discover that my local grocery store stocks the real jalapenos that have flavor and heat and not that TEXAS A&M BRED TRASH
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the Surface Laptop is probably the best deal for form factor and quality (get the platinum with alcantara) but you might have temperature issues with long civ sessions because it's so thin ThinkPads are work horses do not get a dell, they're crap now
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people are right that the standard mac is your best bet but if you're more comfortable with windows then either get a X or P line ThinkPad or a Surface Laptop 5
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I think that conversation in the car in Evil Does Not Exist is the only time I've seen a character mention lock down as having affected his motivations
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I really like how Ryusuke Hamaguchi has taken time to address the pandemic in his last two movies nothing flashy but still making a point to acknowledge it affected people's lives
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you bring them a basin of water and perfumed oil and a scraper to clean themselves while you slaughter a lamb and prepare it along with tea and dates don't mess around with the rites of hospitality you never know when you're dealing with vengeful a bronze age deity
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we're reaching down right bouillabayesian levels of humidity outside right now
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on the off chance you haven't checked it out, hammonasset in CT is free for in-state vehicles, they've also got a bike path from downtown madison where there's plenty of free parking at the train station
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The Internationale is high level camp
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live your truth
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I so deeply respect an irish goodbye there's nothing better than realizing "oh that person is fully not here right now"
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oh yeah, I got like 6 'lol's for my photo of a certain speaker at a certain event it was very satisfying
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nope, but on reflection I'm really feeling like I'm more of a doodad guy than a doohickey one
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I once worked with an architect who described himself as a 'Mise Mouse' he also once casually dropped mid conversation "so, you remember the Hungarian revolution" and I had to be like "no Ron, I do not. . . that happened in the 50s" love that man
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Mies van der Rohe fucking rocks grids are the shit
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if all goes well, tomorrow I should be able to take a picture of something which I can then immediately blast out to four separate group chats where it will be received as a hilarious meme I'm pretty excited about it
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until this exact moment I had always heard it as "hold you in his arms, yeah you can feel his disease" I'm shaken
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spotted: in NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT walking away from UNION STATION around 8:47am
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spotted: in NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT walking away from UNION STATION around 8:47am
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not to dox him, but I just saw a man who looked exactly like Vincent Van Gogh's postman in Arles, France in 1889
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the more you think about it the crazier the concept of a fireman's pole is
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I spent the night in Fremont, OH and visited the Hayes Presidential Library which pretty much frames him exactly this way but they do have a locket with some of George Washington's hair on display, so it's a mixed bag
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as I age I think it's become time for me to start describing things as 'contraptions' and 'doohickeys'
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retvrn to Treasure Mathstorm
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my Charlie Day at the conspiracy board belief is that Gerwig and Baumbach intentionally wrote Barbie to be in conversation with Zardoz, they're two sides of the same coin
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you can't do that without liking the skeet
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why do people feel comfortable questioning my Lifestyle choices?(plan to get an e bike)
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the man hates rabbits
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since retiring my father has really leaned into his Farmer McGregor era
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I've always liked 'Jesus Christ' by Woody Guthrie where he reworks 'The Ballad of Jesse James' to be about secular socialist Jesus
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that or it has to rhyme, those are the rules
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if you write a poem and you don't set it to music you need to get over yourself
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