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Tastes like babies!

By alex | Published: 12/31/2002
Eddie Izzard does a great routine in which he posits that if most strange meats taste like chicken, then babies probably do too. So, when trying an unusual meat, it makes some sense to say that it “tastes like babies”? Although the Japanese eat poisonous puffer (among a host of other scary dishes), and the […]
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My own private California

By alex | Published: 12/26/2002
Wish I had enough cash on hand to buy Bridgeville and set it up as utopia. Jamie and I actually bought a lottery ticket the other day–first time ever–but no luck. I guess I’ll have to wait on buying a town, they do come up now and again. Wired says Bridgeville has a thriving marijuana […]
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California dreaming

By alex | Published: 11/27/2002
It was a chilly snowy morning today, just in time for Thanksgiving. Finn loved it, and would have hoovered up the entire yard if we’d let him. As it is, he now has a belly full of snow and is curled up next to a heating register downstairs. Around the same time, I ran into […]
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Around Amsterdam

By alex | Published: 10/13/2002
Got a chance to look around Amsterdam a bit after the NERDI lecture. Julia hadn’t had a chance to do much touristy, so we tried to get a bus tour of the city to hit the major sites, but they were all booked. Instead walked over to the university that is hosting her for the […]
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