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My poetry career

By alex | Published: 9/3/2003
When I was a grad student, I entered the Poetry Bus Competition. I wrote a short poem on the way to school on the bus. This was not easy, since I tend toward motion sickness on busses. I was just cleaning out part of my hard drive and found it: Lost, perhaps, but for the […]
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Guns on board

By alex | Published: 8/28/2003
The Transportation Safety Administration released a barrage of PR today, hitting every news channel possible on what must be a slow news day. (Where’s Korea again? Oh, way over there.) Their message: airport screeners are protecting us from passengers carrying weapons aboard airliners. And boy are they! Since February of last year, they’ve seized almost […]
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Lost words

By alex | Published: 8/16/2003
Please do not use these words. They have been retired. (via Me-Fi.)
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Troglodyte communities

By alex | Published: 8/3/2003
I’ve been thinking a lot about living underground lately. Not in the hiding-out-from-the-law way, but in the standard, beneath-the-ground-house way. I have a feeling that my early interest in subterranean housing came as a 4th grader on a field trip to see Monetzuma’s Castle, a tiny city carved into the face of a cliff by […]
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