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  • We bought ice creams at Purdy's but I couldn't eat mine, my mind is alwas churning, always trying to crane its grey matter to peek around the corner at the pile of Life's to Do lists: tholse lists that, if addressed, will pay for the education of my son, the roof over our heads.

    blog: December 2007 2007

  • We bought ice creams at Purdy's but I couldn't eat mine, my mind is alwas churning, always trying to crane its grey matter to peek around the corner at the pile of Life's to Do lists: tholse lists that, if addressed, will pay for the education of my son, the roof over our heads.

    blog: A Letter to 42 2007

  • Belting, exploded from a reinvented T.N.T. bombingpost up ahoy of eleven and thirty wingrests (circiter) to sternbooard out of his aerial thorpeto, Auton Dynamon, contacted with the ex-pectant minefield by tins of improved ammonia lashed to her shieldplated gunwale, and fused into tripupcables, slipping through tholse and playing down from the conning tower into the ground battery fuseboxes, all differing as clocks from keys since nobody appeared to have the same time of beard, some saying by their Oorlog it was Sygstryggs to nine, more holding with the Ryan vogt it was Dane to pfife.

    Finnegans Wake 2006

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    December 31, 2008

  • The layer of grime that accumulates on the outer surface of windows fitted with non-removable flyscreens.

    December 31, 2008