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Archive for December, 2006

IS THIS THE REMIX?

Jimmy red car, and I don’t care.
Jimmy red car, and I don’t care.
Jimmy red care and I don’t caaaaaaaaaaaaare!
My monster’s run away.
As much as I hate the original in it’s historical context, I kind of like the remix.  It must be fun being a snot-nosed, cookie munching, song mangling three-year-old.  At least he’s not singing [...]

I LOVE YOU UNCLE CRAIG

For the last couple of weeks I had to steady myself everytime the phone rang revealing my mother’s cell phone number on the caller ID.  Somehow I knew that when the news came it would be my mom who’d break it to me.  That call I had been dreading came two days ago when in a strained voice she said “he’s [...]

CHRISTMAS: THE AFTERMATH

Sorry I haven’t posted anything in a week, but I decided that I needed to leave the laptop alone and hang out with the family.  We went to the zoo, a holiday train show and to Rokefeller Center to gawk at the tree.  The wife and I took in the Will Smith movie The Pursuit of Happyness, and we shopped [...]