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| Wednesday, July 19, 2006 |
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Your duopoly at work 
Attention Deficit Theatre, 1988
| | Back  in 1988, I was hanging with friends Tom and Peg Guild at my friend Steve Tulsky's house in Marin. The house was one of those with one floor on the front and about four on the back. Actually, I think it was one floor, period, with the back poised on poles about 40 feet high. In any case, it had a weak-looking railing on the deck, which gave me an excuse to launch into some kind of riff about weak balconies, "driftwood of the land" and plate tectonics, demonstrating the latter with "two conflicting cuisines" on dinner plates — all for Tom's video camera, which was one of those old VHS shoulder-mounted jobs, as I recall. Tom and Peg were visiting from North Carolina, so I performed mostly in dialect. |
| | The only unfunny thing about it was what The Kid said when he saw it. Papa, that doesn't look like you. he said. Not oddly, that is how I still look to myself, in what's left of my mind. |
Out in the garage
Short distance
| | Don Thorson has a new gig with Jajah, which has a new way to do VoIP over what we used to call "long distance": enter your number and the number you're calling on the Jajah website, and click on a button. Don: After you hit "call" , your phone will ring, your friends phone will ring - you both answer and you talk. You've basically instructed our server to make two local calls - which is one of the reasons it's so cheap. |
You too
Moron, the blog
| | Seems to me there ought to be a blog by that name. |
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