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"Recession" is spelled with a D
Two guys tuckpoint a window-well while blasting their ubiquitous contractor radio, tuned to the local NPR station.
The art of persuasion is dead
The square, white panel truck is labeled SEWER AND PLUMBING REPAIR, but I can't quite discern the painted detail until we stop at a light. An outlined slice of bread is smeared with brown, and surrounded by flies.
Logo: "Your shit is our bread & butter."
The quotes were in the original, so I fear matching letterhead.
And toast.
The end of the world is a journey
A junior high school librarian, located in a wealthy Chicago suburban district, just lobbed this query to her librarian peers. What to do when the principal installs a large-screen television in the library, to play CNN throughout the day? Does she have standing to object even if he agrees to mute the volume?
HERR KEPLER'S NOTEBOOK
Time is the bully anchor of the opposing tug-rope team.
The person with a happy home life tracks glitter through the world; the solitary person leaves snowprints.
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"The grasshopper warbler's song comes up out of the earth just as you think the day is quietening down. It has no prelude or warm-up: it starts midperformance, as if switched on by the dark, as it if has been singing like this beneath the earth until it was dark enough to come to the surface. As if, though we hardly hear it, this singing never stops."
A Year on the Wing (Tim Dee)
All writing and cartoons on this site copyright 2008-2010 Julia Martin, unless otherwise credited.
The person with a happy home life tracks glitter through the world; the solitary person leaves snowprints.
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"The grasshopper warbler's song comes up out of the earth just as you think the day is quietening down. It has no prelude or warm-up: it starts midperformance, as if switched on by the dark, as it if has been singing like this beneath the earth until it was dark enough to come to the surface. As if, though we hardly hear it, this singing never stops."
A Year on the Wing (Tim Dee)
All writing and cartoons on this site copyright 2008-2010 Julia Martin, unless otherwise credited.
Oh my God. I find televisions in bars bad enough.
ReplyDeleteMaybe the sewer and plumbing guys should sell their logo to CNN.
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