Tag: big
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Tunesday: Jill Sobule, Big Shoes
I just had a birthday, and with it came a little bit of reflection. I had a birth defect–the opposite of “club foot”– that was corrected by nighttime braces, adaptive physical education, and “big shoes”. Had I been born in a different time, I would have been a limping, foot-dragging awkward outcast, my feet so…
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Bad Books #5
Because I’m a devilish sod, I’ve collected A LOT of naughty books cover illustrations which I’ll start sharing daily a minute before midnight, “wordpress time.” (which isn’t the time where I live or, I suspect, anywhere but on the wordpress servers, but who cares.
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I Would Have Killed Without Pause or Thought…
…when I was a kid, if I had thought that it would get me one of these: Seriously, I’d have cut your throat in a Bangkok minute.
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Best Damn Quotes #2 Walter Sobchak
“Nihilists! Fuck me. I mean, say what you want about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it’s an ethos.” –Walter Sobchak, The Big Lebowski, by Joel and Ethan Coen, played by John Goodman
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Don’t Let Hollywood & Big Business Control The Internet!
Tell W3C: We don’t want the Hollyweb! “Hollywood is at it again. Its latest ploy to take over the Web? Use its influence at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to weave Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) into HTML5 — in other words, into the very fabric of the Web. Millions of Internet users came together…
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An Hour From Boise (another excerpt from an abandoned story)
There’s this pit of the stomach feeling, I know you know it, when you blaze over the crest of a slope on the highway with the Pogues blaring Streams of Whiskey from a dozen speakers and that big block Chevy 454 thundering backup, and the unmistakable profile of a Ford Police Interceptor crouches on the…
Old Road Apples 