archives for Thursday 12 July 2007

the thrill of free trash bags

Thursday 12 July 2007 | I like a cookie

I thought this morning of JGo’s snicker-inducing post as I stood patiently in line with the elderly of Santa Fe this morning to receive my free garbage bags from the city. Unsurprisingly, at the last minute the clerk didn’t want to give them to me, because my utilities will be shut off on the 18th. [...]

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cats and dogs and women and men

Thursday 12 July 2007 | 4 cookies in the jar

New breakfast discovery: Nutty Rice cereal, made by Perky’s Natural Foods (no kidding), sweetened only with fruit juice yet curiously satisfying, maybe because of its crunchy brown pearliness. Cane sugar 0, Unnarrator 1. And suddenly, there are fleas. Fleas! Anyway there are flea bites, on me. And probably their infant cradles lurking in the carpet. [...]

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let us now praise famous men, part three and absolutely final

Thursday 12 July 2007 | I like a cookie

If this continues we’re going to have to rename the blog the Unreliable James. But this is really really it, I swear on Hamlet’s father’s grave. Obviously my brain is just gearing up to return to grad school, where I will of course post incessantly and not write on any required topics. First, Agee in [...]

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