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Seriously

Bless Roger Ebert for using the phrase "serious science fiction" is his print review of Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, even as a passing reference.

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A Big Tip of the Middle Finger...

...to the fellow who just had to push his way up the middle of the crowded stairs to the subway platform, between me going up and the woman with the baby stroller coming down. Here's to you, you long, skinny drink of turpentine.

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A Story About Someone Else's Ass

Do you ever read Dooce? Yesterday she related a story about someone else's ass.

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Spam Spam Spam Spam

It's 3:00 pm. Since 6:00 am my local spam filter has caught about 600 unsolicited commercial emails. And those are just the ones that made it through the server-level filter. I've gotten about a dozen real emails in that same period. That'

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Court and Spark

Joni Mitchell rulez.

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Flower Basket Etiquette

Okay, so a coworker's parent dies, and the office sends the coworker a flower basket, for which another coworker pays on her credit card. After the fact, the office manager asks everyone if they will contribute to the cost of the flower basket. With twelve contributors, it would

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1.2 Warned to Leave New Orleans

That's right—that's the headline of this AP wire story running at Salon.com: 1.2 warned to leave New Orleans I do hope that one-and-a-fifth person manages to get out of the Big Easy in time.

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Billy, Watch the Stairs!

Am I the dumbass who complained a few weeks ago about how the Borders at Kips Bay had removed their music section without warning? D'oh! There's an upper level, with wide stairs in plain view, and that's where the music section went to. ::smacking

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Move to Astoria!

You want to move to Astoria. You know you do. There's a beautiful house for rent that friends of ours own and are, extremely sadly, vacating: Beautiful 3 level home in Astoria The least we can do is try to get good people to fill the void. This

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Final Hours

I'm exhausted. I've been working 12 to 14 hour days for most of a month. Ella even had to come to the office with me Tuesday evening because there just wasn't anything else to do with her. Our project launches September 8 and has

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"Good Lord, No"

This morning Salon is reporting in an interview with Linda Allison that says her late husband, newspaperman and political consultant Jimmy Allison, got W. a job with the Red Blount campaign in Alabama as a favor to George Sr.: George W. Bush's missing yearLinda Allison's story,

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Ben Barnes on "60 Minutes"?

Salon is reporting today that former Texas lieutenant governor Ben Barnes will appear on 60 Minutes a week from Sunday to confirm that he pulled strings to get George W. Bush into the Texas Air National Guard during Vietnam: Ben Barnes to break silence on "60 Minutes"Barnes,

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