November 2008
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John Allison's top ten records from this year that... →
John Allison thinks “Never Hear the End of It” was Sloan’s best album and now I can’t trust anything or anyone anymore.
royal city adventure squad
Yesterday The Sherry and I packed our pinscher and our selves and our restless energy and our Scrabble savvy into The Golden God (which is what I call Sherry’s Grand Am) and struck out onto the open road…
SOUTHBOUND!
To Guelphtown, where water was falling from the sky and everything was warm and beautiful.
We wore our black leather coats. We looked really tight.
Tudor and Laura...
your armpits smell like the tortured souls of...
Sometimes when I’m looking for a job I fantasize about working in the Mennen underarm deodorant branch of Colgate-Palmolive. It would be my job to smell fresh, lively, natural things, like “glaciers” and “lightning” and “spring rain” and “tsunami” and “fresh sport” and then figure out how to make people’s armpits smell like...
NY Times: How Much Is Your Vote Worth? →
“This [electoral college] system, along with the winner-take-all practice used to allocate most states’ electoral votes, creates the potential for an absurd outcome. In the unlikely event that all 213 million eligible voters cast ballots, either John McCain or Barack Obama could win enough states to capture the White House with only 47.8 million strategically located votes. The presidency...