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@Lileks
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Writer, ex- columnist for @StarTribune because hey, the ash-heap waits for all, mid-century pop-culture enthusiast, hater of "quirky" last lines in online bios
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Joined January 2007
RT @Louaye1980: After watching the country reject radical liberal Kamala Harris, Jen Psaki is now doubling down by scolding Dems over not c…
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Watching what might be the best Christmas movie of the 21st century, "Arthur Christmas."
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Me: Well, let's just run the lawn mower for a few minutes to get the fuel out before I store it away for the season, just a tablespoon in the tank) (20 minutes later: puts a twist-tie around the deadman's switch to make the next 20 minutes easier)
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Raking the leaves, and the wind whips up - the one remaining tree with leaves makes its final drop – it's like cleaning the Augean stables during an E. coli outbreak
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Introducing Notes From Highway 10 - by James Lileks
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I'm carefully preparing my lawnmower where it's long hibernation (tying bungee cord to dead man's switch and letting it run until it's dry)
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The kid just tried to take an entire handful of candy and I gave him a look like Walter Mathau at the end of Pelham 123. Worked
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Running about 40% unprompted "thank yous" with the trick-or-treaters tonight. The rest are reminded to utter an insincere rote statement of gratitude
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On the way to England I sat next to a woman who held her phone with both hands and scrolled with her nose
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I added some bacon fat to the hamburger and tried to shape it into patties, but I basically have a Meat Blizzard
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@stribcbrown Wretched news. It was always a great read, and we know you had 500 more in you. Substack it!
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Coldness, ranked: 3. Core sample of an ancient glacier 2. The empty space between galaxies 1. Unexpected lawn sprinkler water on your back
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I blame the unseasonably warm weather for previous nonsense tweet. A phone loose in baggy shorts gets up to all sorts of mischief. It also activated Amazon and put 25 lbs of powdered eggs into my cart
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The good thing about having a white dog: after a brutal, feral combat with a raccoon, you know where to apply the ointment. Criminey.
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