Monthly Archives: November 2003

Army Men

James Lileks decided to vent his anger over the dead American soldiers in Iraq not by crying out for the kind of state funeral that Italy had for it’s war dead. No, clever warblogger that he is, Lileks decided to … Continue reading

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Atrophy

From Robert Carswell’s Pathological Anatomy, Illustrations of the Elementary Forms of Disease. On display at the University of Glasgow’s Special Collections Library. [bless you, solipsistic gazette]

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The Dying Plant Epidemic

A fragment from the Hellish Horde episode of Freddy Mock Man, a junior high comic from 1986.

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Dose of Reality

Even though I am getting fewer Pakistani mortgage offers, my anti-spam hobby will probably need to give way to a new video game. A veteran speaks out in the name of futility: THIS IS NOT A HOBBY. If you want … Continue reading

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LJ Parody

In some ways, LiveJournal is one of the more powerful and convenient “online communities” around. Unfortunately this is partially due to it’s insularity — a walled garden approach to community building. Walled gardens can be pleasant, unless the gardener starts … Continue reading

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Warrior

Crawling out from a SimCity binge (fortunately it was version 3 — version 4 might have put me under for the Winter…) and looking for another expression of digital monomania, I started hunting spammers. Not the spam sent to the … Continue reading

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Crazy Deficit Spending

Schwarzenegger Campaign Ad: Now, here is my plan: audit everything, open the books, and then we end the crazy deficit spending. A week before Schwarzenegger’s inauguration [LA Times]: Massive Loan for State Weighed Aides for Gov.-elect Schwarzenegger float the idea … Continue reading

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Burning Down the House

The citizens of San Diego stuck to their anti-tax guns even while those damned liberal fire fighters spent decades warning them of massive impending brush fires Officials often ignored warnings on San Diego fire danger SAN DIEGO – Fire officials … Continue reading

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Mind Power

Over the last few months of non-blogging, one post has continued to gather comments — this post from July about a craig’s list want ad for someone with telepathic powers. So far about six or seven desperate seekers have left … Continue reading

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Revision

Among the reasons I started writing in this medium was so I could have some forum to vent my rage and confusion, particularly in the wake of a “preemptive” American war. It gave me some way to argue with the … Continue reading

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