Tag: heroes
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The Black Swallow of Death
I know, you’ve missed me–I’ve been buried in real-world work again–but I’m swimming towards the surface. In the meantime, here’s a transcript, with some additions, from a Facebook post that’s making the rounds–a story too fascinating, exciting, and (sadly) unsurprising to not share with you. Do you know who this is a photo of? Chances…
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What Did You Do on Memorial Day?
I woke up, did some chores, went to the home improvement store to buy some gardening supplies, visited a friend to drop off a box of onion starts I’d grown from seed, ran by the grocery store, went to the feed & supply store to buy some tomato seedlings to replace the few that got…
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Friday Morning Rock and Roll Idols: The Dead Kennedys
What can I say about the DK’s? I never listened to a lot of hardcore, but at the risk of revealing that I am and always was a bit of a poseur, I’d call them “accessible hardcore,” owing to their intelligent, often scathingly satirical social, cultural, and political underpinnings. I missed out on the Sex…
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The Meaning of NaNoWriMo Part 1 of 2
Two days until NaNoWriMo, and I’m actually getting nervous–it’s good to feel nervous; the good kind of nervous. It’s good to feel the good kind of nervous, I just wrote–going to go far with this writing gig. If you’ve waded into the WordPress community–or Blogworld in general–you probably know at least a little about NaNoWriMo;…
Old Road Apples 