January 2010
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DC-ing You!
Man, I’m gonna tell you right now I didn’t learn shit yesterday. Oh, that’s not true, I learned that apropos of nothing and totally without trying to, I’ve managed to begin a gallery of photos depicting me drinking 40s on long-distance buses. Other than that, it was-
Wait, when did they change what nickels look like?
-diggy
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Be Seeing You!
”’Tis what it seems/
the thing imprinted through the seam of my jeans”
-Clipse
Today I learned that I’m not a number, I’m a free man!
-diggy
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Cheating, Pt. 1
Off to DC for the weakened…sorry, right “for the weekend”; not 100% sure between writing a site Bible and drinking until I forget how to use my fingers that I’m gonna get a chance to post. So instead, let’s do a rapidfire succession of things I’ve learned recently that weren’t full-post worthy, but still Awesome. We’ll call it Diggy’s Creating...
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The fields divided one by one
I guess this was bound to happen: today I learned this. But that doesn’t really count.
This morning, I checked my mail and found a “Save the Date” for a college friend’s wedding in Spartanburg, South Carolina. This is exciting, because it means I can take the Crescent. I love trains. The idea of eating up all those miles of track, speeding on a special highway to a...
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The Empire State
My, that those British are a grim lot. So today I learned about this fantastic series of propaganda posters the UK printed up in WWII. The notion was to promote wellness and mental health while being bombed to pieces during the Blitz. The first read “Your Courage, Your Cheerfulness, Your Resolution Will Bring Us Victory”, white letters on a plain red backdrop with the symbol of the...
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The Game
Tonight I learned that, despite my every intention and best efforts, I might just be stuck giving a shit about politics. Pretty much everyone I know who does this for a living — the doorknockers and the flacks, the people who have been doing it forever and will do it forever — they all feel like they were born with some time bomb in their DNA that compelled/sentenced them to a life...
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Never Meet Your Heroes
Today I learned that British heartthrob, drama-riddled junkie and all around human enigma Pete Doherty has cleaned up his act (wait for it)…thanks to Scientology.
This is why you should’ve just OD’d, Pete. This is why you should’ve just OD’d.
-diggy
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Black Gold
Whoa. Cool.
Today I learned about the Threepenny Opera, a jazz-inspired German opera from 1928, which itself is based on the old British Beggar’s Opera. It’s super popular, and has been performed in various languages and locales for 80+ years. Hidden throughout the play is a lot of lampooning of the upper class and aristocracy, some incredibly dark comedy and the coolest fucking...
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Re: Otis Redding
Yeah, that’s a nice song, but “That’s How Strong My Love Is” sounds like a smoke-filled bar at the end of the night when you were pretty sure she’d taken off with that gaggle of unremarkable young people an hour ago, but holy shit she’s still here.
Anyway, to get this back on topic, tonight I learned that if you’re making habanero fritters, a little beer...
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Andy is nuts. The best Otis Redding song is...
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Daleks in Brooklyn
Today I watched the last episode of “The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien”, and the last episode of “Dollhouse.” I can find a theme in a haystack, and if there’s one common element abounding about these days from both people I know and in the industry at large, it’s the lack of opportunity. People are that afraid to try new things? Why? When the status quo...
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Adaptation
Today I learned that there is a plant called the coyote tobacco (Nicotiana attenuata) that grows out west and flowers at night. The hawkmoth, which is apparently a thing that exists, pollinates it, but leaves behind eggs, from whence come caterpillars that like to eat the plant. Problem, yes?
Well, apparently:
N. attenuata strikes back in a novel way, according to scientists at the Max Planck...
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No Hook
You may get to the point in the day or life where you stack it up: the left is dead, Democracy is dead, love is dead and nobody cares. And I’ll drink to that, aye, shit’s horrendous sometimes, but-
Kanye and Hov kill it for life. Let’s pretend I learned it today. Let’s pretend when we learn anything at all. Let’s pretend that if we stick it out, grab our guts and...
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Off-ramp
I literally cannot remember a time in my life when I didn’t think I was going to spend the rest of it in politics. It always used to go like this: I’d graduate from college, take the first train to Washington, be the youngest person ever to do a series of Hill jobs, ???, run for President, serve two terms, retire at age 55.
Okay, I was kind of a prick. But even when things got...
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How the Borg Saved Christmas
Wow. I had forgotten how insane and exciting and bitterly disappointing elections can be. And thinking of the long-term political impact of the Special Senate Race up in Massachusetts can be downright frightening. It’s colored my day to think that a mismanaged campaign could lead to the end of Health Care reform and what kind of impact that might have on the Presidential election in 2012....
