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Month: January 2003

Secret Message #5: A Smile Is Just a Frown Turned Upside Down

Secret Message #5: A Smile Is Just a Frown Turned Upside Down

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Just because I’m hitting lemons doesn’t mean they’ve stopped hitting me… but here’s the big news: I will spend the weekend repeating history, and I absolutely refuse to let it get me down because (1) for the past three months I’ve lived like I was Anne Frank herself and (2) it’s become really uncomfortable walking on eggshells around the keeper of the nine circles. I’m light on my feet and very quiet, so quiet I’ve startled people when they suddenly…

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Odds and Ends #1: Lemon Drops

Odds and Ends #1: Lemon Drops

I’m in a good mood today. I hit a lemon out into the left field, and now I’m running bases. By this time next week, I should be extremely busy but home free, and I’ll talk about the details then. I’d had such different plans for the last two weeks; I meant to post another installment of topsy-turvy pictures (the graphics you see on this page), and I meant to post a few amusing entries (well… amusing to me anyway),…

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Mr. Sandman’s Gift To Me

Mr. Sandman’s Gift To Me

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I hadn’t had a good night’s sleep for a full week, so last night I treated myself to at least 10 good hours of it, all of it much needed, and for the first time in months I dreamed vivid dreams of nonsense, such a glorious gift of wonder and magic. I really have missed that. What did I dream? I dreamed that I journeyed in a dumbwaiter, and the dumbwaiter was a time machine. I went back in time…

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I Can’t Lemonade Stand It Any More

I Can’t Lemonade Stand It Any More

May You Live in Interesting Times. Though I put on a brave smile for everyone, most especially on this, the first month of the year, my personal life is quietly blowing up in my face. I won’t go into detail, but right now my life is a very large exploding bag of lemons, and all that yellow fruit is hurling outwards into space in a big bang, knocking me senseless on their way to create new worlds of trouble. Good…

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For H.E.’s A Jolly Good Fellow

For H.E.’s A Jolly Good Fellow

Today belongs to Human Encyclopedia. Long live Human Encyclopedia! H.E. is probably the funniest man I have ever known. Never a day goes by without him making a joke or some triple wordplay, and almost none of it is planned or set up in advance. If you’re discussing nuclear physics with him, he will find some way to make it slapstick funny. You can have an entire conversation with him, with topics ranging from politics to history, and there you’ll…

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