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| "My throat's a little scratchy this morning."
This is how it starts, in case you're new to my world. I push my chair ... |
| September 05, 2010 |
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| Yep, that's a menstruation joke as the title. Because we keep it classy around here.
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| September 04, 2010 |
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| We gotta be quick about this month's intro, kids--I'm supposed to be on my way to work right now, and I haven't even put... |
| September 01, 2010 |
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| Hey there, everyone. How's it going? Pretty great, I hope. Hey, listen, have you heard about this internet thing? Twitte... |
| August 30, 2010 |
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| August 30, 2010 |
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| One of my writing friends recently asked me to write something for his 'zine. I'm an ego whore, so I immediately agreed.... |
| August 23, 2010 |
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| Okay. Maybe my brain isn't firing on all cylinders right now. It has been a long weekend, and I don't get over brain dam... |
| August 16, 2010 |
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It's eight empty bookshelves and some self-righteous bitch bragging about how fast she reads.
A pack of unsmoke... |
| August 14, 2010 |
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| So it's time to wind down another Hate Week. Frankly, I don't mind that it's over. I find that the best way for me to g... |
| August 13, 2010 |
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| Usually I spend a lot more time preparing for Hate Week. Promotional postcards, posters, or spray-painted goats. This ye... |
| August 11, 2010 |
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| It has passed that time of night. I set myself a limit. If I'm still sitting here with a blank page in front of me when ... |
| August 11, 2010 |
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| I couldn't think of anything good to write, but then I remembered I drew this picture of a guy holding his penis. His pe... |
| August 10, 2010 |
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| The other day, one of my coworkers made this note card for another coworker. Working with a bunch of females is perfect ... |
| August 10, 2010 |
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| Writing a post about running during Hate Week is pretty much the easiest thing in the world for me. Because I am not goo... |
| August 09, 2010 |
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| I don't really have a motto, nor do I have words that I live by. But one thing I do have is the constant feeling of Karm... |
| August 07, 2010 |
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| It's August 6th, which means a couple things. One, that I haven't posted nearly as often as I'd hoped. Two, that Hate We... |
| August 06, 2010 |
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| It should not surprise you at all that I don't have very many Quotes. I am a slacker, which means that I slack. Here's w... |
| August 02, 2010 |
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| Hi there.
How's it going?
Pretty good, I hope.
So, I don't know if you noticed or not, but it's August. August... |
| August 01, 2010 |
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| Right in the middle of a great dream. One of those that you want to live in forever. Alarm sounds.
Bed's soft, temper... |
| July 30, 2010 |
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| Stop it, he goes, and I just laugh a hateful laugh and run my arm across another table, knocking every damn thing onto t... |
| July 28, 2010 |
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by Ray
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| So this is my third week. I ran Monday through Thursday the first week I started running. I ran Monday through Friday la... |
| July 26, 2010 |
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| A while back, I made a short little clip about Owl Cat. It was a spur of the moment thing, and even though it was really... |
| July 24, 2010 |
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| July 23, 2010 |
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| July 22, 2010 |
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| I wrote a new zombie story. I haven't quite decided if I'm going to post it here or not. Right now, it's available as a ... |
| July 20, 2010 |
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| I don't have much time to write about Day 5. The distance has increased enough that I'm going to have to wake up earlier... |
| July 19, 2010 |
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| More more more of the same.
No exciting weather, no drunken hobo to yell encouragement from the bus bench. Only more... |
| July 15, 2010 |
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| Will I write about this every day?
I don't know. I've made an agreement with myself that I am going to write every d... |
| July 14, 2010 |
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| The alarm goes off and I can't help but believe it. As much as I want to hit the snooze button, I can't--alarm is set wi... |
| July 13, 2010 |
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| I recently downloaded an e-reader application, and it's one of the few things I like about my stupid phone. What I reall... |
| July 12, 2010 |
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| I've been trying to figure out what to do about First Of The Month Quotes this month. The thing is, I only had four.
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| July 11, 2010 |
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| Do you ever wonder if you're a good person? I think most of us assume that we are, right? You get up in the morning, yo... |
| July 07, 2010 |
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| So I made it through Independence Day with my liver mostly intact, and barely any more brain damage than usual. Still ha... |
| July 05, 2010 |
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| Hey kids, hope you're enjoying your holiday (if you're Americans--if you're not Americans, you're probably used to being... |
| July 04, 2010 |
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| Hey everyone, it's July. Don't believe me, look at your phone or your calendar, or maybe even your watch, if it's fancy ... |
| July 01, 2010 |
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by Ray
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| how many gorillas do i have to smash before i finally save the girl?
i don't want to be a part of your world, i real... |
| June 30, 2010 |
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| I spent a lot of time writing this post the other night, but I made the rookie mistake of trying to post it before savin... |
| June 28, 2010 |
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| Do you ever do something incredibly stupid, but you still find it hilarious? I just spent five minutes making the worst ... |
| June 26, 2010 |
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by Ray
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| I know I need to post more, but right now I'm listening to Eminem's new album, and I just want to type whatever while th... |
| June 23, 2010 |
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| June 21, 2010 |
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| At one point, I mentioned a quickly thrown together book I was working on called Raw Dog. It seems like it was just the ... |
| June 21, 2010 |
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| Under the best of conditions, I generally don't take care of myself very well. I try, sometimes. There will be weeks at... |
| June 19, 2010 |
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| It's been a while since we did a music post, mostly because Trey was doing it, and he and his lovely bride recently rep... |
| June 15, 2010 |
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| Do you guys remember back in the old days, when cartoons were awesome instead of just stupid bullshit and flashing image... |
| June 12, 2010 |
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The sun breaks over the horizon,
and even to our sore eyes, it's treasure.
Another day, we've lived t... |
| June 07, 2010 |
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by Ray
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| "You think we're gonna be okay?"
I look at her, and I wonder how she can ask something like that. You know that expre... |
| June 07, 2010 |
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by Ray
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| I woke up this morning at 4:30. This was not on purpose, and I tried for half an hour to remedy the situation.
Appar... |
| June 03, 2010 |
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by Ray
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| At first, I thought it was my fault. But I soon realized it was not, mostly because I hate accepting blame. Instead, I b... |
| June 01, 2010 |
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by Ray
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| I have so many pens in my pen holder right now, and I don't know where they came from. I know that's not too exciting, b... |
| June 01, 2010 |
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| I wrote a post ... |
| May 27, 2010 |
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by Ray
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| I don't generally pull back the curtain on my writing, because I'm pretty sure nobody gives much of a shit. But I feel ... |
| May 26, 2010 |
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| I've been trying for the last twenty minutes to figure out something to write that would be entertaining, something that... |
| May 19, 2010 |
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by Ray
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| Monday morning, second cup of coffee, just out of the shower, and I find myself singing some made up song in a horrible ... |
| May 17, 2010 |
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by Ray
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| NOTE: You can blame Karen for this post. I was about to go to bed, completely okay with the fact that I had a bottle of ... |
| May 15, 2010 |
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by Ray
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| Hey! Even if you don't usually read poetry, you should read this. Because I'm head-fucked, and I feel like this is a sto... |
| May 13, 2010 |
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by Ray
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| I am a big fan of Joey Comeau.... |
| May 12, 2010 |
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by Ray
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| One a.m. and I'm just waking up from what I thought was going to be an all-night sleep. Woke for a moment--my princess s... |
| May 06, 2010 |
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by Ray
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| It's so stupid. Stuff like this always is.
But fuck it.
Sometimes stupid is exactly what you need, right? When the... |
| May 03, 2010 |
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by Ray
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| Did you notice the dramatic title of this month's FOTM Quotes? If you didn't, you should go do that right quick.
Tha... |
| May 01, 2010 |
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by Ray
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| It is way too early in the day to be this brain-bogged. Which is probably why I was surprised by the fact that it's a ne... |
| May 01, 2010 |
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by Ray
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| Dirt scuffed to dust, caught in the wind, a cloud of nothing, and she tells herself it's time to cry, but she doesn't b... |
| April 29, 2010 |
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by Ray
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| If you've been a regular reader for the past few years, you might remember me bitching about my back for what was probab... |
| April 27, 2010 |
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| It's another one of those picture-with-word things (idea ripped off ... |
| April 22, 2010 |
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A text conversation I had just now (I'm in bold):
"People in Canadian think you might be dead. Just a heads up.... |
| April 21, 2010 |
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| I'm lost. Whatever is supposed to separate the past from the future or the present, whatever's supposed to differentiate... |
| April 18, 2010 |
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by Ray
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| I know I have been exceptionally hard on you this past couple of weeks, and I apologize. But you have to understand that... |
| April 12, 2010 |
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| "Hell man, you wanna blow my heart apart, you have to at least look while you pull the trigger, you owe the heavens tha... |
| April 11, 2010 |
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by Ray
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| A couple weeks ago, I made some new posters for The Strangelands. I don't know why, really. I guess I figured that at so... |
| April 03, 2010 |
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| I have no idea how many FOTM Quotes I have, and since that's usually what I talk about in this first paragraph, I guess ... |
| April 02, 2010 |
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| So I'm naked right now. That's not really the point of anything, but I find it very distracting, and I knew that I would... |
| April 02, 2010 |
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by Ray
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| "You need to write the truth," he says. "Quit writing what you wish was the truth, and write the truth."
So here it g... |
| March 31, 2010 |
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by Ray
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| Okay...so this is a long, winding, nonsense of a post, but there's lots of good stuff, so try to follow along, okay? Or ... |
| March 29, 2010 |
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| Dear Bobby,
Hey, man, I got your postcard, and I just wanted to let you know. As soon as possible, because you really... |
| March 28, 2010 |
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by Ray
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| Before you read on, let's get one thing out of the way, shall we? I'm just some guy who sits around in his boxer shorts... |
| March 27, 2010 |
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| March 27, 2010 |
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by Ray
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| There's an unspoken rule in my life that I'm not really allowed to use pictures of friends and family members on this we... |
| March 22, 2010 |
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by Ray
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| So I'm sitting here at my desk, not doing anything, really. Looking at things on the internet, but not paying any attent... |
| March 21, 2010 |
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by Ray
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| "Alcohol isn't the answer," she says, giving me that look. Not quite disapproving, but almost, and mixed with sadness a... |
| March 17, 2010 |
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| March 16, 2010 |
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by Ray
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| I started the day out by dumping a partial shot of Scotch down my face and chest. I ended it by dumping some sort or sce... |
| March 15, 2010 |
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by Ray
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| So you probably already know it, but here in America, we switched over to daylight savings time last night. As much as I... |
| March 14, 2010 |
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by Ray
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| I've been seeing hastily-made posters up all over town lately, advertising stuff for SXSW, and since I was bored, I deci... |
| March 14, 2010 |
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by Ray
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| I don't generally watch TV or go to movies. I don't watch TV because I think most of what's on it is panda-fuck stupid. ... |
| March 13, 2010 |
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by Ray
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| She says hello, and I almost scream. I didn't know there was anyone else around. There shouldn't be anyone else around.... |
| March 11, 2010 |
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by Ray
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| So this is a total punk move, but I can't think of anything good to write, so I decided to just show you some pictures. ... |
| March 10, 2010 |
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by Ray
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| I generally try to spread my content out around the internet, which isn't nearly as gross as it might seem at first. Wel... |
| March 09, 2010 |
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by Ray
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| "You know what the problem is? I mean, you know what the real problem is?"
"Yes."
"Fuck you, you don't know." She g... |
| March 08, 2010 |
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| The other day, I saw a man in a wheelchair. He was morbidly obese, and he had no arms or legs.
One thing I want to g... |
| March 08, 2010 |
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by Ray
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| Usually when I write FOTM Quotes, I go through them all before I even start typing, just to see how many I have, what I ... |
| March 02, 2010 |
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by Ray
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| I'll tell you what, February got away from me. I kept hearing about things that were going to happen in March, deadlines... |
| March 02, 2010 |
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Last year, I did this thing where I wrote a story for a friend of... |
| February 27, 2010 |
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by Ray
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| "John Dies At The End" is one of the greatest books I've ever read.
I know that's a pretty strong statement, but it'... |
| February 24, 2010 |
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by Ray
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| Working on something that is taking up most of my time. Hopefully it will be ready soon. Until then, here is this thing:... |
| February 23, 2010 |
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by Ray
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| Lost limitations and forgotten dreams. Motivate me to immobilization. Dare you.
Hurt by things that can't be seen, se... |
| February 20, 2010 |
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by Ray
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| Today was a weird day. Even before the airplane crashed into a building in my neighborhood, I mean. After that happened... |
| February 19, 2010 |
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by Ray
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| I know what you're thinking. You're thinking, "Man, I wish there was one more place on the internet that I could see var... |
| February 16, 2010 |
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by Ray
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| Look, I don't claim responsibility for most of the things I do, okay? I mean, 78% of the time, my brain's working agains... |
| February 15, 2010 |
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| Well...
Here we are.
Three in the morning.
Three a.m. is the thinnest hour. The hour of monsters.
So hard to ge... |
| February 14, 2010 |
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by Ray
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This is BJ... |
| February 13, 2010 |
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by Ray
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Hey gang, I just got a notification from Lulu (the place where... |
| February 12, 2010 |
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by Ray
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| A while back, the Austin Chronicle had a short story contest. It had to be an original, unpublished work of a certain le... |
| February 10, 2010 |
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| February 09, 2010 |
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by Ray
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| Okay, so here's the thing: I got 39 minutes before I have to officially call it bed time. That'll put me at midnight, an... |
| February 09, 2010 |
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by Ray
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Carmex kisses and cotton candy whispers,
and a world worth of everythings
just waiting ... |
| February 08, 2010 |
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by Ray
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| What, what do you want to know, what do you want to ask? Look, you sit there and try to think up your question, and I'll... |
| February 03, 2010 |
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Hey you guys, you know how... |
| February 03, 2010 |
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by Ray
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| It was a strange month for First-Of-The-Month Quotes. When I first started writing down the bizarre things people said a... |
| February 01, 2010 |
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by Ray
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| It's February, which means only one thing: It's our birthday! I suppose it could mean more than one thing, like it's tim... |
| February 01, 2010 |
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by Ray
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| You might have noticed that I haven't been polluting this site with constant whining about my allergies like I have in ... |
| January 28, 2010 |
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| The other day, I had to carry a bunch of heavy-ass boxes up two flights of stairs, and then through an office building. ... |
| January 24, 2010 |
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| I didn't kill a dog today. I think it's important that you know that before we get started--it'll make things easier lat... |
| January 22, 2010 |
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by Ray
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| I can't swear to it, but I'm pretty sure I first heard rap music when I was about eight years old. It wasn't gangsta rap... |
| January 22, 2010 |
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by Ray
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| So I'm back. From my trip out of town. Because I went to, uh...you bastards didn't even notice, did you?
Well, anyway... |
| January 20, 2010 |
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| I know I've talked about it before, and I know the majority of you don't care, but The Strangelands has a Twitter page. ... |
| January 14, 2010 |
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| January 11, 2010 |
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by Ray
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| I ended up digging through some old files tonight, mostly to appease a friend of mine, but also because I was curious. I... |
| January 10, 2010 |
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by Ray
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| I couldn't remember if I'd ever had a gun against my head before. It seemed like I had, seemed like I'd had to, at one ... |
| January 09, 2010 |
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by Ray
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| 7:13 a.m.
My goal today is to write an entire post using only my phone. There are drawbacks--the main one being the lac... |
| January 06, 2010 |
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| my haunted everything slides right up next to me, smiles at me, but just for a minute, and dammit if i don't see my mom'... |
| January 05, 2010 |
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by Ray
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| Everything sucks at the moment. Caught a cold just in time to take it back to work with me. Can't find any of my quotes ... |
| January 04, 2010 |
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by Ray
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| You may have noticed that I was late getting this issue up. There are very good reasons for this, including, but not lim... |
| January 03, 2010 |
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by Ray
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| I don't have much to say, but I figured I should get a post of some sort up, anyway. So you get all kinds of pieces.
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| December 29, 2009 |
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| You may not believe this, but this is one Experiments In Energy segment I'd really rather not do.
I was having a fri... |
| December 26, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| Hey everybody, how's it going? Good, I hope. Me, I'm pretty excited--I just finished final-proofing my latest book, "Deg... |
| December 25, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| A tablespoon of sticky memories and a dozen burned roses:
Our behavior reeks of exploded airbags and spent fire extingu... |
| December 21, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| The blood smears messy across the back of my hand, and I can only laugh. Really? This is my life?
It's so stupid, it'... |
| December 18, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| I know a million things, and they aren't doing me a damn bit of good right now. When you look around, and all you see is... |
| December 15, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| The other day was my birthday. When my princess asked me what I wanted, I told her I didn't know, and I'd think about it... |
| December 11, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| Well heck, looks like the weekend's over, huh? I kinda missed it. I finally decided to force myself to sit down and get ... |
| December 07, 2009 |
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| December 06, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| I was out tonight, not for long, but long enough. Crowded bar--didn't realize it was a popular sports bar, and with the... |
| December 06, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| I wonder for a second if this is because there's something wrong with me. Shock? Am I paralyzed? I don't know, I don't ... |
| December 02, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| There are no quotes on my calendar this month, which really caught me off guard. I'm sure there have been times that I h... |
| December 01, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| I'm a little surprised that it's December. More than a little surprised, actually. I wanted to have my book not only pro... |
| December 01, 2009 |
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| So...Thanksgiving is over, you're settling back into your routine, getting ready for the work week, whatever. Not compl... |
| November 30, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| Her tears, that's what I can't get over. Who was it, Jerry Seinfield that made that joke? About how if all women had to... |
| November 27, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| Technically, it is Thanksgiving here in Austin, Texas. Not many people eating turkey yet, I don't think, because it's li... |
| November 26, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| Okay, holy crap you guys. You wouldn't believe how pumped up I am right now. You know how a while back I wrote a test fo... |
| November 24, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| I spent a rather large portion of my weekend proofreading stories for my next book, and I think it might be taking its t... |
| November 23, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| I was walking around in Target tonight, looking at toys and thinking about my Christmas list. And I realized something-... |
| November 22, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| The thing is, I was in a good mood. The day began, and I didn't feel too upset by that. The day continued on, and while... |
| November 20, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| Tell me what we're talkin',
Because you need to know as much as I do.
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| November 14, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| Pretty much my favorite thing about weekdays is The Charlie Hodge Halftime Show. I stumbled onto the show when I first ... |
| November 12, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| It's like looking into a mirror. One that doesn't show your physical self, but your insides. Not like organs and black ... |
| November 11, 2009 |
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| Back in August, I began compiling stories for a book. I even started writing a post about it, talking about how I knew i... |
| November 11, 2009 |
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| "Sending a kid. This is a low blow. You know that, right?"
He shrugs his shoulders and rolls his eyes just a bit, a m... |
| November 09, 2009 |
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| Here are some pictures I took on my recent trip to my home town:
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| November 08, 2009 |
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| The other day, I'm driving down the street, like I do, and I hear a song. Something about it catches my ear, so I strain... |
| November 07, 2009 |
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| So I was all excited about FOTM Quotes this month, because I have meticulously written down or typed all the messed up s... |
| November 05, 2009 |
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| So you might have noticed that I'm a running a little late this month. Well, I'm back from vacation now, and since I'm n... |
| November 05, 2009 |
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| This news would be much more striking if I'd been posting every day, but I'm going to be out of town for a few days, so ... |
| October 29, 2009 |
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| I was going to start this review out with something witty, maybe something a little dirty. Something like, "Reading Joe... |
| October 26, 2009 |
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| October 26, 2009 |
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Nothing incendiary tonight, kids.... |
| October 25, 2009 |
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| I did this with cropped screenshots for no particular reason at all:
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| October 22, 2009 |
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| In the movies, this is where it the guy would lean forward and begin mumbling, and the audience would be left out. Then... |
| October 21, 2009 |
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| I have a secret for you, and you won't like it and neither will I. But the deal is, there is no deal. The thing is, yo... |
| October 18, 2009 |
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| I have a camera in my phone, and I use it to take all sorts of mundane pictures every day. So there really should be a p... |
| October 17, 2009 |
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| "What do you want?" I ask.
"You bastard!" She screams. "You asshole!" My phone, it's a piece of crap, some puke-yello... |
| October 17, 2009 |
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| You wanna talk, le's talk, come on, le's get...it...ON!
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| October 13, 2009 |
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| I just now got brave enough to post this. I've almost posted it three times before. Each time, I write a little intro fo... |
| October 09, 2009 |
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| Here's what I got: a stuffy nose; a washer full of clothes that has to be put in the dryer before bed, a glass and a hal... |
| October 07, 2009 |
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| He slams the shot glass down so hard that it sounds like a firecracker. But it doesn't break. You gotta tilt it a littl... |
| October 05, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| Here's something you might not know: Any time you have blood taped to your desk, you're going to lose the argument. Any... |
| October 02, 2009 |
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| Here we are, in October. Are you enjoying it? I hope so. I'm a little angry about it, to tell you the truth.
I know I... |
| October 01, 2009 |
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| September 28, 2009 |
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| I had to go to the supermarket today to pick up some stuff. While I was there, I got transfixed by the various meats i... |
| September 27, 2009 |
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| "You know, I always thought I'd be more."
"More? Like what?"
"I don't know. Like, I thought that one day, I'd do so... |
| September 26, 2009 |
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| She keeps asking why, and I wish she would stop. Why why why? And I don't have an answer for her. Not a good one, anywa... |
| September 25, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| I'm not a big fan of getting haircuts. The last time I went to get one was just before my job interview. I took the lit... |
| September 24, 2009 |
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The ice-cold gin
settles in,
washing my insides like a cool spring rain at the end of a dusty day
and i... |
| September 22, 2009 |
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| September 20, 2009 |
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| I woke up early this morning. Determined. I had a plan. I went to bed early on a Friday night specifically so I could wa... |
| September 20, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| So I don't guess I've ever gotten around to telling you guys what my job is. I work at a print shop. Kind of. Actually,... |
| September 17, 2009 |
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| If you're a regular reader, you might assume that I write about pretty much everything that goes on in my life, no matt... |
| September 13, 2009 |
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| I still remember.
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| September 11, 2009 |
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| He keeps telling me he'll do it. He keeps telling us all. I'll do it, I'll do it! I'm crazy!
Over and over again, any... |
| September 10, 2009 |
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| Hey gang, how's your Labor Day weekend going? Good? Good, I hope. I sat around all day today, not really getting anythin... |
| September 07, 2009 |
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| The anger doesn't last, and for just a moment, that feels like the worst part--that I don't get to hold on to the anger... |
| September 06, 2009 |
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| This is the space I would generally use to apologize for the scarcity of First-Of-The-Month Quotes. But screw it. I'm bu... |
| September 01, 2009 |
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| You might have noticed it is September. I used to mark the month of September with the cooling temperatures, the beginni... |
| September 01, 2009 |
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| August 31, 2009 |
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| Last day of the month, there's no way I'm going to post something worthwhile. As I've mentioned before, almost all of th... |
| August 30, 2009 |
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| I made a mistake tonight. One that I have never made before. I wrote an entire post using only the story entry form. And... |
| August 29, 2009 |
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| I'm not really allowed to write stuff on this site about my friends and family, but sometimes I disregard the rules and ... |
| August 28, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| i know i've asked before, but i never remember your answer,
and i'm just now realizing it's because i don't care. do yo... |
| August 25, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| Flashes.
Of vision, of smell, of noise. What happened? What is happening? The panic builds up inside of me, no release,... |
| August 24, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| I'm not what you'd call a cheerful person under the best of times. Spending an hour in traffic after working all day doe... |
| August 21, 2009 |
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| I was emailed a YouTube link tonight. Demetri Martin. The text message sent to inform me of the email (because we live i... |
| August 20, 2009 |
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| August 19, 2009 |
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| Slick listening and heartburn heart-to-hearts,
Anyone can pretend to care.
Lead-painted love,
Destroying under the in... |
| August 16, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| One of the few stipulations I made when I got my job a while back was that I would not eat 88-cent hotdogs. See, I've b... |
| August 15, 2009 |
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| Author's Note: This post shows that it was written on the 13th, but that's because our server is weird. Rest assured tha... |
| August 13, 2009 |
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| Getting home from work to a hot-ass apartment? Check. Going to a math class and staring with glazed-eye confusion for t... |
| August 12, 2009 |
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| I woke up puking yesterday. Last night, I drank some NyQuil and went to bed. Shortly before, I texted Trey and told him ... |
| August 11, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| I'll tell you one thing kids: you sit down at the same desk, you turn on the same song, you feel the fan blow on your a... |
| August 10, 2009 |
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| I finally managed to get a few Hate Week 2009 postcards printed. I had originally planned on getting them printed by a ... |
| August 09, 2009 |
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| All right. So the site has been acting a little hinky lately, probably due to the fact that I've been telling pretty mu... |
| August 09, 2009 |
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| I want to talk to you about something tonight, kids. Before I do, I want to assure you that Hate Week isn't going to be... |
| August 07, 2009 |
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| So it's about 87 degrees in my apartment right now, and my air conditioner doesn't give a damn. I've been doing math ho... |
| August 06, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| You know what sucks? People who tell you about their dreams. I mean the dreams they have at night, not like their goals... |
| August 04, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| Who am I? It doesn't matter. You want to call me something, you can call me Jack, I guess. That's what they call me at ... |
| August 03, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| This was one of those rare months where I actually went out and did things. You know, stepped away from my computer and ... |
| August 01, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| Usually, I don't get too excited about writing the first "News" post of the month. Like, if this site was a porn movie, ... |
| August 01, 2009 |
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| Oh. Oh, yes.
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| July 29, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| I went into a tattoo parlor today. Aside from the woman with the ink gun and the guy she was tatting up, there were two ... |
| July 28, 2009 |
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| July 27, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| It's like this game we play, but it isn't a game, and both of us know it. It's a thing, a thing like Russian Roulette, ... |
| July 26, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| I wrote this longhand in a spiral notebook, using a pencil. I figured that if I was lucid enough when I got home, I woul... |
| July 22, 2009 |
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| July 17, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| Fuck. Stuck in stop-and-go traffic. 3 miles an hour. Nobody is ever available to talk during rush hour. Why is that?
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| July 15, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| I'd like to introduce you to someone.
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| July 14, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| I originally wrote this on Thursday, and I wanted to read over it before I posted it. Then I forgot all about it. I was ... |
| July 13, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| I got pizza tonight. I ordered it online, and then I drove to pick it up. When I got there, the guy behind the counter... |
| July 11, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| Look man, most of the shit I say on this website, it's better if you ignore it. But sometimes, there are things like the... |
| July 09, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| I know you guys don't read the poetry around here, which is why I decided to stick it on top of pictures.
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| July 07, 2009 |
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| July 06, 2009 |
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| Considering that I'll try just about any energy drink I can get my hands on, and considering how crude and juvenile my ... |
| July 05, 2009 |
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| Wow.The 3rd. This is the latest I've been with the Quotes since they became official. So instead of some lengthy intro, ... |
| July 03, 2009 |
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| I am at Burger King eating Burger Shots. They are not very good at all, but I'm mostly here for the air conditioning
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| July 02, 2009 |
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| Hey, gang, here's July. I got it for you. Because I care about each and every one of you.
Normally, I'd post whatever... |
| July 01, 2009 |
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You probably didn't know this, ... |
| June 26, 2009 |
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| June 25, 2009 |
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| June 24, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| The bad part is, like the really shit thing, is that people don't understand. Which means they don't believe.
You ca... |
| June 23, 2009 |
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| oh.
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| June 22, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| Happy Father's Day to all of you dads out there--way to not be smart enough to wrap that shit up, or at least pull out. ... |
| June 22, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| The thing is, it's 3:30 in the morning, and I've been staring at this computer for about sixteen hours now. The thing i... |
| June 19, 2009 |
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A while back, I did a picture strip thi... |
| June 18, 2009 |
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| So...been a while, huh?
Believe it or not, I actually have legit reasons for my absence and lack of posts. And, no, i... |
| June 16, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| My mom once asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I was eleven years old at the time, and we were driving throu... |
| June 09, 2009 |
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| I?
We or us?
Did you see? Did you lie, too?
Take away your lost soul. Find mine.
Dirty tears. Drink, drink, drink. D... |
| June 08, 2009 |
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| I'll sell you my soul for
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| June 08, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| This isn't a new Portly Boy story, so if that's what you were expecting, you're out of luck. This is a post telling you ... |
| June 07, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| I was recently trying to describe to some of my family what Twitter was about and why people are going all crazy about i... |
| June 06, 2009 |
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Don't ask me how, but the other night, I came across a w... |
| June 06, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| So classes have started, and this was my first week of summer school. I'm only taking two classes, and then I'll be fini... |
| June 05, 2009 |
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During my morning ritual of looking through the ads on craigslist, I c... |
| June 04, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| Uhg. You know what's stupid? Going to bed early. I hate it. I looked at the clock a while ago, and I thought to myself,... |
| June 02, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| I don't know what the hell I was doing at my desk through the month of May, but it was obviously disgusting. My calendar... |
| June 01, 2009 |
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| So...June. This is the month when life in Austin pretty much starts to suck nads. Everything is hot and wet--not like a... |
| June 01, 2009 |
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As long as you look at me like ... |
| May 31, 2009 |
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| It's midnight, I'm hot, and my air conditioner doesn't work. I blame Obama for the broken air conditioner.
Since befo... |
| May 28, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| Usually, I would just link back to this original post, but when I finally tracked it down tonight, I saw that it was all... |
| May 25, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| I hate this place.
I hate it.
What a bunch of freaks.
With their hate disguised as love, and their disgust disgu... |
| May 20, 2009 |
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| For a recent story, I needed to know how long it took to perform an abortion. I meant the medical procedure, but that's ... |
| May 18, 2009 |
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| I wrote this a while back. Probably last weeks sometime, I don't know. I didn't post it at the time because I thought th... |
| May 16, 2009 |
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| Darren sits on the cement steps in front of his house, and to the casual observer, he looks the same as he always does ... |
| May 15, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| There are a lot of things in life that I need more of. Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. Dollars. Elastic pants.
You know w... |
| May 14, 2009 |
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| "I need a favor."
"I told you," Mandy said, "There is no way I'm doing that."
I felt a familiar stirring in my crot... |
| May 13, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| I was looking at a Batman comic today--a collection from the 30's and 40's, when he was brand new--and realized that al... |
| May 12, 2009 |
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| May 08, 2009 |
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| "I don't..." The tears make it hard to form a complete sentence. Well, not so much the tears, but the sobbing, the runn... |
| May 06, 2009 |
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| Don't...
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| May 02, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| Remember last month when we didn't have any First Of The Month Quotes? That sucked. We don't have that problem this mont... |
| May 01, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| Welcome to May, everybody. Be honest--you weren't sure if I was gonna make it, were you?
Well, here I am, and here yo... |
| May 01, 2009 |
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It's stupid, I know,
But sometimes, I really wis... |
| April 23, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| We aren't real big about advertising around here. Basically, we pimp our own little products and that's it. And even the... |
| April 20, 2009 |
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There are
a billion th... |
| April 17, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| You look around, right? Search through old files, skim through internet pages, whatever. Grab your phone and scroll thr... |
| April 16, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| Where have you been? Did the government get you? Because I know you were talking about the job with the census people. D... |
| April 13, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| Mink didn't want to wake up. Wouldn't have, except for the throbbing in his head and the twisting in his gut. He grabbe... |
| April 12, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| I was supposed to be taking a nap. I didn't get any sleep last night, and I've got a ton of stuff to do tonight, so I wa... |
| April 08, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| I just finished writing a couple of pretty big pieces, so I'm taking a break from the serious story-telling for the ni... |
| April 07, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| I started this story a while back, when I accepted an odd sort of a challenge. A friend of mine came up with three rando... |
| April 05, 2009 |
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| April 03, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| You know how some websites do a practical joke on April Fool's Day? Like they'll change the whole layout or post a messa... |
| April 01, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| So it's April. Like you didn't know. I find April interesting mostly because it's the beginning of the name-after months... |
| April 01, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| Cheap liquor, greasy in the reflected light, splashed carelessly into a shot glass and pushed over scarred wood, throug... |
| March 29, 2009 |
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"So this is how it's gonna go?" She asks. "This is how you're going to en... |
| March 29, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| You may have noticed lately that the site has been loading kind of slow. There's a technical reason for this, and Trey e... |
| March 27, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| I was talking to my sister earlier, and I told her that my princess and I went for a walk yesterday and almost got caug... |
| March 26, 2009 |
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| March 25, 2009 |
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| March 23, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| You may have noticed that I haven't been posting much lately in the last week. Spring Break.
Usually, this break mean... |
| March 22, 2009 |
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| March 16, 2009 |
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| March 15, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| Towards the end of last year, a friend of mine began harping on me because I wasn't writing as much on The Strangelands ... |
| March 12, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| I don't know why I decided to be a killer. I was bored, mostly, and I know how terrible that sounds, but that’s what it... |
| March 10, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| God help you if you're relying on me to keep you from messing up, but don't forget to change your clock, if you live in ... |
| March 09, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| I went and watched the movie Watchmen yesterday. I was trying to be responsible and watch my online lectures, but the p... |
| March 08, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| Hey man, what's up, what's goin' on? What, as they say, are the haps?
You don't know and neither do I, and as much as... |
| March 05, 2009 |
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| Every morning, I wake up and tell myself that I’m going to start going to bed earlier. Because honestly, what the hell ... |
| March 04, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| Typing out First-Of-The-Month Quotes makes me happy. It's easy, because the stuff is already written down, so I don't ha... |
| March 01, 2009 |
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| So March, huh? I don't have a lot to say about March, really. I mean, I'd be lying if I said I wasn't kind of glad it's... |
| March 01, 2009 |
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| I hear the music before I open the door to the building. Shit.
"Hey!" he yells from his bedroom.
"No, dude. ... |
| February 28, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| I mentioned a while back that I was going to try to write something for each section this month. I thought the difficul... |
| February 28, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| I wrote this story for an internet friend. Her birthday is coming up, and I let her pick three words and/or phrases to i... |
| February 25, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| On my way home from school, I was going to stop and get the mail. I was listening to a mix CD I made like ten years ago,... |
| February 23, 2009 |
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| February 19, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| One a.m. rolls around and memories roll in, and whiskey rolls down the throat. Headphones on, blocking out the world, ... |
| February 17, 2009 |
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| February 16, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| Right now, it feels like a troll clawed his way through my eyes, trudged with dirty feet to the very top of my brain, a... |
| February 16, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| The music's thub-bumpin' so hard I can feel it from the back of my eyes to the bottom of my nutsack, and the coke's kic... |
| February 15, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| He meets her in a bar, not because he's there to hit on women, but because he just went through some stuff, some pretty... |
| February 13, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| I wake up, and immediately know that something is different. I stand slowly, and that gives it away. In my world, you d... |
| February 12, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| It isn't a smile, not exactly, because he's straining too hard to display a true smile. Sweat drips from his forehead o... |
| February 11, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| This section was originally designed to display the weird randomness pulled from the police blotter section of The Canad... |
| February 10, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| "Do you know what it is to dream?"
"I have dreams all the time. Just last night, I had a dream where my toilet came a... |
| February 07, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| Chainsaw tears,
Ripping and cutting,
Hurting.
Without mercy--only noise and anger.
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| February 05, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| All day, I have checked to make sure my eyes aren't bleeding. In case you have ever wondered what kind of a freak I am,... |
| February 04, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| You may be wondering where me and my drunken sidekick have been. Unless, of course, you're a normal human being, with ... |
| February 03, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| So I'm looking at my calendar, where I always write down FOTM Quotes, and there's all kinds of shit here that I don't k... |
| February 01, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| Welcome to a new month, Strangelanders. February, I believe it is. I don't have much use for this month, really. I mean... |
| February 01, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| January 31, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| As we all know, I don't try very hard this late in the month. At anything, really, but especially not when it comes to p... |
| January 31, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| I recently had the following text message conversation.
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| January 29, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| I've been trying to think up something worth ranting about, something worth writing about. Nothing has come of it. I us... |
| January 28, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| "Jimmy, why don't you wait up in your room, okay, buddy? Your mommy and I need to talk about some things."
Jimmy nodd... |
| January 26, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| My show was on, and my DVR had been screwing up, so I couldn’t record it. I know that’s a stupid reason, but there it i... |
| January 23, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| It's called Death Race and it stars Jason Statham. If you think you're going to get an intellectual movie, you need to ... |
| January 21, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| Inauguration Day, and I have to be honest with you--I got goose bumps listening to President Obama speak.
I'm not a ... |
| January 20, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| A long time ago, Trey started a story called She Walked In. Either because he was hoping to give other writers so... |
| January 19, 2009 |
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by Ray
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Strange that a man such as you
Can die.
Stranger still that
You live.
Sweat-sloppy romance and
Mad-moon all... |
| January 18, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| I've started like twenty short stories lately, and have yet to finish any of them. So instead of a story, you get an ins... |
| January 16, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| The thing is, this was almost a rant about how chick authors suck. I was going to generalize and stereotype and rant an... |
| January 12, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| I am going to make this short, A) because I really need to post something, but I can't think of anything good, and B) be... |
| January 10, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| Believe it or not, I used to be funny. I used to post on this site pretty much every day (sometimes even more than once... |
| January 07, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| look, man, we're all fallen stars, we're all lost rockets, we're all whores without johns and toilet stalls without graf... |
| January 06, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| You see the scars, you can't help but wonder what caused them, you can't help but fill in the blanks. You can't help bu... |
| January 05, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| You're probably getting sick and tired of me writing an intro each month talking about how I don't have many FOTM Quotes... |
| January 02, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| Happy New Year, everybody. We just got back from our vacation (gone for almost two weeks), and I've got all kinds of stu... |
| January 01, 2009 |
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by Ray
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| Three in the morning, just returning from a drug run to the convenience store down the street. Mucinex, throat relief sp... |
| December 30, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| Christmas morning, and it seems like an exceptionally noisy one, especially considering the fact that I'm the only one a... |
| December 25, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| Today did not go as I had planned. At all.
I have a nine-hour drive back to my home town tomorrow, and I was supposed... |
| December 22, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| Honestly, there is no honesty. We talk of bonds, or of friendship, or of love, but I'd sell you out in a second and you... |
| December 21, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| Sometimes—not often, but sometimes—I forget about how much I hate people. Going out during the holiday season quickly r... |
| December 18, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| You have no idea how excited I've been for this moment. Ever since I told you I was writing a book about zombies, I hav... |
| December 15, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| I'm two classes down, which means only three to go until I'm done with the semester. Which is a good thing.
A while b... |
| December 10, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| a hundred started stories, a thousand lost ideas,
clouds of stolen magic tickle my neck
and my brain,
but nothing co... |
| December 08, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| December 04, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| "Why are you so sad?"
"I'm not sad," I tell her.
"Yes, you are. And you lie about it."
I feel her stare on the si... |
| December 02, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| I was told to inform you that my friends haven't stopped being as funny, it's just that I was always either really busy... |
| December 01, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| It's December. You know--the most wonderful time of the year. Or the hap, happiest time of the year. Some bullshit like... |
| December 01, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| Like this, like you look out the window, and it's all beautiful, and you can barely believe that you exist in such an in... |
| November 29, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| It's kind of a holiday tradition for me to stay up the night before Thanksgiving and write about sticking my hand insid... |
| November 27, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| I gotta tell ya, kids, I'm kind of excited. Almost...cheerful. I've got a full five days before I have to go to class a... |
| November 26, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| I'm feeling much better, and I wanted to write a post for you tonight, but I had to get caught up on all the shit that p... |
| November 24, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| So in case you haven't heard from my mom, I've been sick again. I got sick Sunday night, on the last night of her visit,... |
| November 20, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| So listen: I know it has been a while since I last posted. I had to register for classes, which involved a lot more hust... |
| November 16, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| One thirty in the morning, I just finished up my most recent school project. In all fairness, I got sidetracked a little... |
| November 11, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| Last night, I wrote a post whining about one of my teachers and about my future in general. It wasn't funny at all, and ... |
| November 10, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| So I'm still dog-puke sick, which is just really outstanding, I assure you. I got over the stomach stuff--apparently tha... |
| November 07, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| The following was originally posted on November second. Honestly, it's not even worth re-posting. But what happened was ... |
| November 07, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| Here’s a quick way to tell if your weekend is going to suck: Your princess, who is an elementary school teacher, comes ... |
| November 05, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| It isn't something we want, it's something we need. She's muttering, it's hard to understand what she's saying, with h... |
| November 04, 2008 |
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by Ray
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Hey, tick toc... |
| November 02, 2008 |
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by Ray
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Instead of an intro this month, I'm just pasting in segments of an email convers... |
| November 01, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| So it's November. Got that Thanksgiving thing going on this month, if you live in the States. If you don't, too bad for... |
| November 01, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| Hey everybody. Happy Halloween. I was hoping to get some sort of scary story written for today, but it didn't work out. ... |
| October 31, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| My first draft of this post got wiped out by a strange incident with the backspace key, and to be honest, I'm kind of gl... |
| October 30, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| Not much in the way of words tonight, but that is a-ok, because I realized I had some projects from school I hadn't show... |
| October 29, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| I didn't have class tonight because the instructor was sick. I was pretty pleased when I found out, not because I have a... |
| October 28, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| So I’ve been screwing with Dreamweaver and CSS for about eight hours straight now, and I’m pretty sure it was a mistake... |
| October 27, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| Here's the thing: I'm an idiot. I think we all know this by know. It's not an excuse, it's just a fact of life.
Mayb... |
| October 24, 2008 |
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by Ray
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Starlight stereo,
Playing songs of past memories
And forgotten answers.
The world looks like cigarette smoke ... |
| October 24, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| So where we at tonight, kids? You doin' all right? Doin' good? Good.
My cockhole neighbors are tromping up and... |
| October 23, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| I'm at that weird place where I should be asleep and I want to be asleep, but I just can't be asleep. I had to stay up l... |
| October 21, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| I'm supposed to be doing homework right now. But something was bothering me. My last post. What if someone came by, like... |
| October 17, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| So listen: I don't really have anything worth writing about, but I'm not sleepy. Which is weird, considering that I wok... |
| October 17, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| Okay. I want to take this moment to assure you that this site is not going to turn into an exercise log. But I generally... |
| October 16, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| I got up this morning at five (okay, a little after five, but just barely). I got dressed. I brushed my teeth.
And I ... |
| October 14, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| I'll be honest with you kids--I'm not in a fantastic way at the moment. The night, it took a sinister turn at some poin... |
| October 14, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| “Look at you,” She says.
“I’d rather not,” I tell her, my words slurred, my eyes unfocused.
“All hydro’d out and st... |
| October 13, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| Okay, so we already know I'm a little biased against this crap, but just to show you how fair I am, and because I'm bor... |
| October 11, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| Well kids, it's Thursday night, and you know what that means: Science Night!
What do you mean, you don't know what I'... |
| October 10, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| So a while back, I had this huge art project (okay, it wasn’t really that huge, but it seemed like it to me because I s... |
| October 09, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| The little blue light isn't mocking me, not quite, but it's getting dangerously close. I only see that little bastard w... |
| October 09, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| I think you'd be lying if you said you didn't think I had seen my share of she-male porn. I also think you'd be lying i... |
| October 08, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| "We're starting late and we're letting out early."
This is where a lot of people would say that the words were music ... |
| October 07, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| Did you guys register to vote yet? Did you watch that debate? And most importantly, do you really think I care?
What ... |
| October 03, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| There will be a new post here shortly. No, seriously. It might not be very good, but it will be here. Trust me.
...
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| October 02, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| I don't have any clever sort of introduction for the Quotes this month, and honestly, I barely even have any quotes. Bu... |
| October 01, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| Man, I was just on my way to bed. You know how you get right before bed, your eyes are all tired, and you're practicall... |
| October 01, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| I spent the day doing homework, so I don't really have anything for you to read. Except that rik texted me, so I have th... |
| September 29, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| is it daytime yet? shit no! don't even play like that, actin' like the sun's there and it's time to take action, take re... |
| September 28, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| I've been meaning to write this post for a while, but I keep putting it off. Which is weird, because there's really not... |
| September 27, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| we dance like we're instructed, each and every day it's like those footprints telling us where to step and dammit if we... |
| September 25, 2008 |
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by Ray
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Usually, I don't write about the people I go to school with. I wro... |
| September 24, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| wreck your humanity, it doesn't hurt. history, it's just another flag point, and we've all missed it. dance with me arou... |
| September 21, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| Look, let's not even play around: I'm freakin' tired. I mean, I'm an idiot for even being awake right now, and sitting ... |
| September 16, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| So I did a search of our website, using that little Google thing up in the upper-left corner of the page, and discovered... |
| September 15, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| Autumn nights, beer bottles in hand,
Air crisp with the smell of fallen leaves
And anticipation
Of promise or heartbr... |
| September 14, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| The numbers, they’re out to get me, I can tell. Don’t tell me no, what, are you in on it with them? I knew, by the w... |
| September 13, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| I’ve already whined about being busy, so we’ll just skip over that part for tonight. We’re all busy, it seems like late... |
| September 12, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| Morning.
... |
| September 07, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| I mentioned at the first of the month that rik and I did a little recording. I think I have something like two hours of ... |
| September 06, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| 3:20.
In case you're wondering, that's a.m., as in the morning. A surprising twist: ... |
| September 05, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| Once again, I find myself too busy to write a proper post, and have to resort to using pictures of my school work in ord... |
| September 03, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| Too much.
The thought has gone through her head before, many times in her life, but it has never been ... |
| September 02, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| I was a little worried about the First Of The Month Quotes this month. It was like mid-August, and I only had one or tw... |
| September 01, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| As a child, I had a love/hate relationship with September. On the one hand, it meant that school started, and that made... |
| September 01, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| I just wanted to remind everyone that I will soon be taking the Hate Week shirt out of our shirt shop (I'd add a link to... |
| August 30, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| Been a busy, busy week, kids, and it doesn’t look like it’s going to slow down any in the months to come. Quite the opp... |
| August 29, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| So I went back to school today, and the two classes I went to were pretty rockin'. Not sure how tomorrow's going to be, ... |
| August 26, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| School starts tomorrow. In eleven hours, I will be hauling my tired ass into class for another semester of humiliation.... |
| August 25, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| One of those days, kids, which is strange, because it really shouldn’t have been. Yesterday’s plan: Do some laundry, ea... |
| August 22, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| Junior High, and fuck me if it wasn't worse than anything I've had to deal with in adulthood. Third grade was worse, of... |
| August 20, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| Every time I go a few days without posting something, it feels like I’ve gone weeks. This is probably due to some stran... |
| August 18, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| She asked, What kind of monster are you.
I’m the kind of monster who comes to your home in broad daylight, with... |
| August 16, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| 1) That I liked Crystal Pepsi. It was clear but it tasted like Pepsi…kind of. I mean, it’s not like it was world... |
| August 15, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| I wrote this last night while deep in my cups, but didn’t want to post it for fear that instead of being funny or ent... |
| August 14, 2008 |
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by Ray
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(A post dedicated to my sister Leslie--the biggest fan of the Olympics ever)
Gymnastics...
That one girl just ke... |
| August 13, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| With Hate Week winding down (only another 24 hours or so until it's over for the year), I figured I'd go ahead and post ... |
| August 12, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| Hate Week isn’t all about me bitching about my car catching on fire and me having to deal with scumbag car salesmen. It’... |
| August 12, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| Whispered wishes into make-believe ears, almost as pointless as throwing hard-earned cash into a well. The dark hides h... |
| August 11, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| I will be back shortly. rik is supposed to post while I'm gone, but she's terribly unreliable, and probably won't. I'm j... |
| August 09, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| What sucks is that it’s Hate Week—my time to shine—and I’m too busy gathering source material to write any of it down. ... |
| August 08, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| It was recently suggested that we use each month’s tagline on a limited-time t-shirt in our shirt shop. For example, th... |
| August 08, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| This is making the rounds on the internet today, so some of you may have already seen it. But in case you haven't, and i... |
| August 07, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| I get asked a lot why I would start and/or continue something like Hate Week. “A lot” being relative, of course, consid... |
| August 07, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| I was in the shower this morning when I remembered that today is the first day of Hate Week. I have some pictures made ... |
| August 06, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| Guess what yesterday was, kids!
If you guessed Monday, you’re partially right. Also, August 4th would have worked fo... |
| August 05, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| Overwhelming is an understatement. It’s not a cloud, it’s not a wave—it’s just everything, all of the sudden.
She tol... |
| August 04, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| I decided to try to be a regular human and go to bed last night. I did that thing like regular people do, where they re... |
| August 03, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| Since my princess got her wisdom teeth removed, I’ve spent a lot of time watching TV. I try to keep her in bed most of ... |
| August 02, 2008 |
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by Ray
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The first of the month is a time for sharing. Sharing our experiences and our love all the nasty, messed up shit... |
| August 01, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| I totally forgot it was time for a new issue until I saw Lynne Grey’s latest post and saw that it was dated August 1st.... |
| August 01, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| Ah, what a day. I’m not entirely sure what I had expected, but I’m pretty sure it didn’t go according to plan. I slept ... |
| July 30, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| In the comment section of another post, someone asked about a FAQ section to answer questions about posting. I'll talk t... |
| July 28, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| So you may have noticed a lack of posts around here the last few days. There are a few reasons for this, but the main o... |
| July 27, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| In case you were wondering what I just got through doing, I just got through reading all about kangaroos. Not so much b... |
| July 23, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| You learn things as you fumble through life, you know? You learn stuff about the world you’re fumbling through and you ... |
| July 20, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| I just got back from watching the new Batman movie. If you haven’t seen it yet, I suggest you run out and do that. Righ... |
| July 18, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| Childhood hallucinations gone awry. I’m not well into my cups just yet, but I will be shortly, and nothing’s going to s... |
| July 17, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| I know we all get spam in our email boxes, and most of us probably get the same kind, so it’s not really worth writing ... |
| July 15, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| The sun sets. The sky blazes like a spilled rainbow, violet inkblots of clouds splashed across dazzling streaks of oran... |
| July 14, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| Tell me you want me. Tell me you need me. Tell me you love me. Her mouth doesn’t say it, but her eyes do. Desper... |
| July 12, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| “You know, right? About the drugs and the counterfeiting thing and the debit card scam?”
“Yeah, man, I know.”
“And ... |
| July 11, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| Damn and damn and damn. I got no new story, nothing interesting to say, and I already used up my bad poetry thing for th... |
| July 10, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| I had this dream last night. I was walking through a hallway, and I came upon a dimly-lit room. There was nothing but a... |
| July 09, 2008 |
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by Ray
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In a million words or less,
Tell me how I’ve found you,
How I’ve helped you,
How I’ve loved you.
In a millio... |
| July 09, 2008 |
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by Ray
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| Man, I had really planned to spend some time writing a quality post tonight, but just before I began, I remembered that... |
| July 07, 2008 |
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| They go, “Clear!” They go, “Get away!” And I wish that I could. Something like lightening hitting me in the chest, an... |
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| Happy Fourth of July, Strangelanders. I hope you’re all out getting drunk and catching things on fire right now, as you... |
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| Began writing in class:
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| I don't really have anything ready for your viewing/reading pleasure tonight, but since I've really been trying hard to ... |
| July 02, 2008 |
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| I was messing around with Photoshop today, and decided to make an “Air Strangelands” logo to go with the
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| The worst part of the First-Of-The-Month Quotes is writing an introduction for them. Because it’s really unimportant, a... |
| July 01, 2008 |
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| Hello, and welcome to July. Thank you for choosing The Strangelands as your carrier, and we hope you enjoy you your tri... |
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| All right, we’re done moving. We went to do our apartment walk-through today, but there was no one in-charge enough to ... |
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| I'm finishing off my move this weekend, in case you're wondering why no update yesterday. Yes, I realize I've been movin... |
| June 28, 2008 |
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With all due respect to hurt:
What…love?
Shit.
I been there. Her name was Candy, but she wasn’t near as swee... |
| June 26, 2008 |
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| Hey gang,I put up a couple new designs in the shirt shop. You can go over there if you want to see what I put them on (I... |
| June 25, 2008 |
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| Like what? Like lighting through my soul, man. She’s moving out there, on the dance floor, under the flashing lights an... |
| June 24, 2008 |
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| There was supposed to be a post here.
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| June 23, 2008 |
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| It’s been kind of a strange day. Not incredibly odd, but a little…off. I dropped my princess off at her school, and as ... |
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| I went out onto my deck this morning with a cup of coffee. I don’t particularly like taking coffee outside on the deck ... |
| June 20, 2008 |
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| So I’ve got shit for writing ideas tonight. Normally, I’d just cop out and post a lousy poem, but since I did that last... |
| June 20, 2008 |
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| We all fall, like angels crashing to the ground from a broken whiskey bottle, with handfuls of glass. We don’t know how ... |
| June 19, 2008 |
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| Depending on how astute you are, you may have noticed our new wall of pimping over on the right side of the main page.... |
| June 17, 2008 |
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| You know how sometimes I write about abusing my penis? It’s time for another one of those stories.
I bought some new... |
| June 16, 2008 |
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| You should know better by now. You really should. I don't know if it was the wine, or if you just got caught up in the e... |
| June 15, 2008 |
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| I'm in the middle of moving, so I haven't really been writing. I had to do something with the time I didn't have interne... |
| June 14, 2008 |
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| Posting via cell phone sucks. Go screw, Time Warner. Bastards.... |
| June 13, 2008 |
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| True story:
I’m at class this one time, and the teacher is telling us about some new reality show, I think it might h... |
| June 12, 2008 |
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| Her hair dances in the wind, as beautiful as a child’s surprised giggle. She was out of the car and into the field bef... |
| June 11, 2008 |
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Another Sunday night, accompanied by the familiar feeling of unease that has followed me since childhood. Man, I hate... |
| June 09, 2008 |
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“I might be a bad person.”
“Why do you say that?”
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| June 08, 2008 |
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I like the internet. Sometimes, I’ll just sit around thinking about how wonderful and amazing it is. You ever do that... |
| June 08, 2008 |
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| June 07, 2008 |
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I had to buy some shoes today. Mine are all worn out, and they constantly squeak, like I’m comic relief in a spy movi... |
| June 06, 2008 |
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1:30 in the morning, my breath tastes horrible. Not tired, but I know I should go to bed. Drunk girls, playing in the... |
| June 05, 2008 |
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Alarms ringing in his head, and no matter how many times he hits the clock or answers the phone, the ringing continue... |
| June 04, 2008 |
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| You remember a while back, when I did that picture of a
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| Since my last post was a little hardcore and unpleasant, I decided to lighten up a little bit with this one. I’m back i... |
| June 03, 2008 |
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| I was just reading through my hometown newspaper, and I saw something that bothered me. It bothered me enough that I d... |
| June 02, 2008 |
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I can’t think of a clever way to introduce the FOTM quotes, so I’m just going to give them to you:
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| June 01, 2008 |
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| Welcome to June, Strangelanders. I spent the day moving to my new apartment and clothes shopping with my princess. It’s... |
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| April 01, 2008 |
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| While You Were Away
I took a drink
Of angry ice cubes
And soggy gin.
Stars burned out,
And love... |
| March 30, 2008 |
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| Before I get into any sort or ambling tonight, I have to give huge props to
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| Okay, so I finally managed to get a story finished. It’s damn long, though, so I’m going to wait until next month to p... |
| March 27, 2008 |
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| Sometimes I wonder if I was ever normal. I think back to my childhood, and it seems pretty normal, but then it occurs t... |
| March 21, 2008 |
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| It isn’t always lonely in the dark. Sometimes the shadows keep me company, the night sounds keep me thinking. But ther... |
| March 20, 2008 |
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| Sorry, kids—another day down, and I still haven’t finished any stories. I’m trying, I really am. Real life has been ha... |
| March 19, 2008 |
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| Hey, Ray, it’s been a while since you whined about some sort of health problem. What gives?
Well, since you ... |
| March 17, 2008 |
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| I recently bought Adobe Photoshop. I’ve heard that you can do the same stuff with open source software like |
| March 17, 2008 |
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| “How long do sperm live?”
This is how conversations start when you have friends like mine. The tragic part is, a sim... |
| March 16, 2008 |
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| I sent rik a couple of pictures that I had been working on in Photoshop—one of a nastier version of the
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| Back in the old days, I probably would have just tacked this down in the comment section like I... |
| March 14, 2008 |
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| Okay, this is going to be a let down, due to all the
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| We have this candle, I don’t know where it came from, but it’s been sitting there on the shelf for a while, now, ... |
| March 12, 2008 |
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| I never thought I’d be that guy. I’ve seen them before, maybe sitting in a booth at IHOP, over ignored cups of coffee,... |
| March 11, 2008 |
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| You know how I’m always whining about not being tough enough? I was looking through my old footlocker this afternoon an... |
| March 08, 2008 |
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| We drop the wrong habits;
We learn to leave the things that don’t make us money,
That don’t get us ahead in life.
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| March 07, 2008 |
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| It’s already time for another Photoshop project. This time, it’s logos. We’re still in the beginning stages, where we... |
| March 06, 2008 |
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| When I first started this semester, the instructor of my digital imaging class went on and on about how there were goin... |
| March 04, 2008 |
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| The worst thing about this month’s First-Of-The-Month quotes is that I’ve had to omit some of them. There were several... |
| March 01, 2008 |
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| So it’s March. Believe it or not, I don’t have a whole lot to say about that. I mean, there’s St. Patrick’s Day, if y... |
| March 01, 2008 |
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| You know that guy I bitch about who sits next to me? He came to class last time smelling like cat piss. And not just a... |
| February 27, 2008 |
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| There’s this thing called Twitter, you may have heard about it. I recently discovered it through a website called |
| February 25, 2008 |
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| All right, I posted a few more sound clips you can listen to if you want. It’s rik and I again, but it’s different fro... |
| February 24, 2008 |
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| I drank some bad gin tonight. Pretty much all gin is bad, really, but this was bad in a different and irritating way. ... |
| February 22, 2008 |
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| For my Web Design class, we had to sign up for a blog on WordPress. As many of you know, I am not a big fan of blogs. ... |
| February 21, 2008 |
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| Note: We started this 2 Heartbeats business a long time ago. For the uninformed: it... |
| February 19, 2008 |
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| The house has a thick atmosphere of booze, not in the miserable, pathetic way of a drunk contemplating suicide, but rat... |
| February 18, 2008 |
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| Here’s the deal, kids: I have to be out of town for the next couple of days because a certain best friend of mine has ... |
| February 13, 2008 |
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| Hey kids, sorry to leave you so long with that last post about animals having sex. I’ve been extremely busy doing stup... |
| February 12, 2008 |
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| 12:33 am on a Saturday morning, and I just finished up my homework for the night. This wouldn’t be so bad, except for ... |
| February 09, 2008 |
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| I’m going to tell you a story, and I hope that I can relate to you at least a fraction of the humor it involved. I’m g... |
| February 07, 2008 |
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| Kind of an awkward day, really. I was doing fine this morning, right up until I had to leave my house. The roads I ta... |
| February 06, 2008 |
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| So I’m supposed to be doing school work today. Technically, I was supposed to do it yesterday, but the allergen-laden ... |
| February 02, 2008 |
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| I still haven’t gotten a new desk calendar. I tore off the December page at the first of January, fully expecting to g... |
| February 01, 2008 |
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| People sometimes ask if it feels weird to put my writing up where everyone and anyone can read it. They ask how I can ... |
| February 01, 2008 |
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| “We went to that movie The Bucket List. Afterwards, BJ goes, ‘Great, now there’s gonna be all kinds of old peop... |
| January 28, 2008 |
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| They never warn you
About
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Place;
In grade school,
When they show you the films,
When they pass around... |
| January 25, 2008 |
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| I don’t like people. I think we all know this. Sure, there are a select few that I’ll suffer because they’re awesome,... |
| January 25, 2008 |
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| Tickle me on my spider-web sanity;
Listen and laugh at my hopes and dreams,
And my march through the mountains
That y... |
| January 22, 2008 |
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| I’m worried about my brain. Not too worried, really—slightly concerned, is more like it. Usually when my brain isn’t ... |
| January 20, 2008 |
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| Classes have started back up, which means I’m a full-time student once again. Not worth writing about, really, but I’m... |
| January 17, 2008 |
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| April 14
Vulture Point, that’s what the town-people call it. Called it. It ain’t much, but ... |
| January 14, 2008 |
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| I decided to make a frozen pizza for dinner tonight. I’m a fan of the DiGiorno Ultimate. I used to really enjoy their... |
| January 13, 2008 |
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| I was in the supermarket yesterday when I heard a voice I recognized. It wasn’t recognized in the way a friend or loved... |
| January 12, 2008 |
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| Drunken rambling, episode 43:
Were you ever really there, or just hiding in your boredom? Is there such a thing as a... |
| January 11, 2008 |
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| I recently mentioned that my princess read th... |
| January 10, 2008 |
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| So I put together another book. You can find it here, if you’re in... |
| January 09, 2008 |
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| Waking up, eyes red and aching…again. Headache of a million mourning brain cells. How many they’re mourning for is an... |
| January 07, 2008 |
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| I recently bought a shitpile of journals. I would like to think it’s because something monumental is about to happen i... |
| January 06, 2008 |
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| I’ve been doing a lot on online shopping lately. Some of it was Christmas shopping for others, but most of it was Chri... |
| January 05, 2008 |
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| I went to the supermarket tonight to get some candy. I needed lemon drops, you see. I was tired, and wanted to go to ... |
| January 02, 2008 |
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| I didn’t realize until just now that I have to get a new desk calendar. In years past, this was something I did when I... |
| January 01, 2008 |
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| Happy New Years, Strangelanders. Hopefully, most of you were able to usher in the new year with more debauchery than ... |
| January 01, 2008 |
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| I went home for the holidays, and for a brief second, I was foolish enough to think I’d made it out unscathed. I shoul... |
| December 31, 2007 |
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| Merry Christmas, Strangelanders. I'm visiting my hometown at the moment, and my internet access is sporadic, so I'm not... |
| December 25, 2007 |
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| There was nothing important about my day, or maybe there was. I don’t know, and I don’t really care. The point isn’t ... |
| December 21, 2007 |
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| December 21, 2007 |
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| So what you have to ask is this: Is it forbidden because of how wonderful it is? Or is it so wonderful because it’s f... |
| December 16, 2007 |
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| For my birthday, my princess got me a gift certificate for this place called Planet Replay—a place where you can get us... |
| December 14, 2007 |
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| Over the course of my life, I’ve come to realize a few things, none of which are important. One thing I find a little ... |
| December 09, 2007 |
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| She glances in my direction and I avert my eyes: to the chalkboard, to whatever nonsense the professor has just writte... |
| December 08, 2007 |
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| I was talking to Trey the other night, and somehow the subject of dreams came up. I think it’s because we were discuss... |
| December 07, 2007 |
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| So there’s obviously a lot to love this time of year—bright, festive Christmas lights, jovial decorations, the general ... |
| December 05, 2007 |
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| Update 12/04/07
I rarely go out to the movies. It’s not because I don’t like i... |
| December 03, 2007 |
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| December 02, 2007 |
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| The First-Of-The-Month Quotes!
“If you don’t like watching two teenage girls mugging down at nine in the mo... |
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| UPDATED
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| December 01, 2007 |
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| It’s not always, but it’s enough.
Dark things in the mind that bring tears to the eyes, lost times that bring feeli... |
| November 30, 2007 |
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| It isn’t madness, exactly, but it’s definitely a kissing cousin. The city isn’t alive, not any more than it usually is... |
| November 28, 2007 |
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| Ah, the night after Thanksgiving. I trust you did your share of eating and slothing around on the day of thanks. My m... |
| November 23, 2007 |
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| Traditionally, I spend the night before Thanksgiving writing about how I’m going to be elbow-deep in turkey ass before ... |
| November 22, 2007 |
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| It certainly would explain a lot of things. I didn’t believe it for a second, because you’d have to be batshit insane ... |
| November 21, 2007 |
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| If you’ve ever been looking at something of mine on this site, and suddenly found yourself thinking something along the... |
| November 18, 2007 |
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| This is a total cop out post. As much as I revel in the power of my pain medication, I have to admit that it’s shit on... |
| November 16, 2007 |
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| I did a little movie watching over this past weekend. DVDs, of course, because going to the actual movie theater means... |
| November 13, 2007 |
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| written 11/09/07
I’ve been going to the chiropractor for quite a while now. I was skeptical in the beginning, ... |
| November 11, 2007 |
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| Let’s just be honest with each other for a second here, okay? I’ve had too much to drink. You know it and I know it. ... |
| November 09, 2007 |
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| So today is my last day at work. Honestly, I don’t know how I feel about that. On the one hand, this is the job that ... |
| November 08, 2007 |
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| “Do you even know what you want out of life?” Mary asks.
“Does anyone?”
“Beside the point. I’m asking if you |
| November 06, 2007 |
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| I had a few minutes to kill before heading out to my Algebra class, so I figured I’d just write a quick little somethin... |
| November 05, 2007 |
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| After you read through this month's quotes, you might realize something not very funny. That would be my list of thing... |
| November 01, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| I’ll be honest with you—I’m putting a lot of pressure on November this year. October ended up being mind bogglingly di... |
| November 01, 2007 |
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| I should be in my hometown right now, anticipating going trick-or-treating with my nephews. Instead, I'm getting ready ... |
| October 31, 2007 |
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| Paula didn’t realize she had zoned out. She had been working in the area she called her serenity garden—a self-made po... |
| October 29, 2007 |
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| I was talking to a guy at work today, and somehow we ended up talking about bacon. Because it’s me, this course of con... |
| October 27, 2007 |
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| “I was watching this thing on TV the other night, and they asked a bunch of world-famous chefs what they would have if ... |
| October 26, 2007 |
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| I went to the chiropractor the other day. For the duration of this post, I will refer to him as “the doctor,” because ... |
| October 25, 2007 |
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| I try the door, hoping that it’ll be locked. If it is, I have to pick the lock, which takes around ten to fifteen seco... |
| October 21, 2007 |
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| “Where is he?” I ask because it’s my job to ask. I hate my job.
“Three-eighteen—up the stairs and take a left.” ... |
| October 21, 2007 |
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| Sorry, kids—between school, work, and pain, I haven’t had much time to write. I’m hoping to be back in full effect soon... |
| October 19, 2007 |
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| I haven’t posted anything in a few days—I think we all realize this. There was a reason for this, believe it or not. ... |
| October 15, 2007 |
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| “We could have been a movie together. We should do that next.”
I stare down at her, wondering if she’s joking. At t... |
| October 10, 2007 |
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| Last week, while I was dealing with some of the worst physical pain I’ve ever endured in my life, I missed a test. In ... |
| October 09, 2007 |
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| I was bored and Vicodin-ed up one night and wrote this for submission to an online humor magazine. I don’t have anythin... |
| October 07, 2007 |
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| It’s three in the morning, which has never been my favorite hour of the day. I used to have all kinds of theories abou... |
| October 06, 2007 |
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| Foul things are afoot tonight, children, whether you know it or not. Sit still, breathe deep, can you not feel it? It... |
| October 03, 2007 |
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| I have a new bit over at Strange Noise if yo... |
| October 02, 2007 |
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| I woke up this morning because of a pain in my leg. It felt like the beginnings of a cramp, so I stood up quickly, hop... |
| October 01, 2007 |
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| Let’s face it: you don’t click on the First-Of-The-Month Quotes to read my introductions. You click on them to read a... |
| October 01, 2007 |
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| October, finally! I love October. I’m not sure why, exactly, but I’m guessing it has something to do with the fact th... |
| October 01, 2007 |
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| When I’m at work, I sometimes have to go to the part supply place next door to get stuff. When I walk in, there’s a hal... |
| September 30, 2007 |
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| So I had a test in my Speech class this morning. Because I’m something of a super-genius in all things that aren’t alg... |
| September 29, 2007 |
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| I don’t how she can manage to move so fast in her oversized combat boots, but she busts hump like a champ, which is goo... |
| September 28, 2007 |
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| I had planned on writing something upbeat and relatively happy this evening. On my way out to my last class, as I swit... |
| September 27, 2007 |
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Long day of brain-melting education, so I got nothin’ for you tonight. Luckily, ... |
| September 25, 2007 |
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| All right. Maybe you’re all sick and tired of listening to me carry on about a Strangelands “podcast,” which is, funda... |
| September 24, 2007 |
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| I went grocery shopping today. And for something like the eighth time in a row, the retarded girl bagged my groceries.... |
| September 23, 2007 |
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| “I ever tell you I could fly?”
I glance at my watch, hoping that it’s closer to closing time than it feels. We still... |
| September 21, 2007 |
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If you’re reading this, you should probably just go re-visit the <... |
| September 19, 2007 |
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| I’m not nearly as smart as I need to be to tell you this. Sorry.
That said:
We at The Strangelands have recently... |
| September 18, 2007 |
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| Back when I worked at Circuit City, there was this guy everyone liked who worked in the TV department. Customers liked... |
| September 16, 2007 |
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| You know all that crap email you get? That used to be my job...
Vaginas!
Please forward this messa... |
| September 16, 2007 |
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| I’ve been sick. I feel too rotten to bitch and moan about it right now. I have made an interesting discovery, though,... |
| September 13, 2007 |
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| I can only pretend I don’t see it for so long. The name on the envelope—my name—is written very neatly, very carefully... |
| September 10, 2007 |
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| Up and at ‘em like a mad bastard, I woke up late, my stomach a little queasy from the previous night—not enough sleep, ... |
| September 09, 2007 |
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| The gum doesn’t cover the scent of the booze, but it gives it a minty companion smell, so it’s easy to make the mistake... |
| September 09, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| Don’t look for a concrete answer—I’m the angel on each shoulder. On one hand, I promise instant gratification a... |
| September 08, 2007 |
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| bloody fingers and hope,
scraped insides and raw emotion
and hateful love
abandoned, finally.
broken fingers ... |
| September 08, 2007 |
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| It’s not that it’s terrible, really, and it isn’t like there aren’t worse things out there. Hell, man, pretty much eve... |
| September 06, 2007 |
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| If you check this site with any sort of regularity, you may have experienced page-loading problems lately. Maybe the oc... |
| September 06, 2007 |
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| We aren’t lost, not really, but we’ve lost so much. We’ve lost hopes and dreams and laughter and friends and familiarit... |
| September 05, 2007 |
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| Have you ever wanted to make the worst mistake of your life? Don’t lie.
You ever stop to think that maybe Pandora ... |
| September 04, 2007 |
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| I deliver to eight different stores, all owned by the same company. Each summer, these stores put “help wanted” signs ... |
| September 03, 2007 |
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| So last summer, I was working with this guy named Brian. One day, we’re in this stupid-hot warehouse, pulling cases of... |
| September 02, 2007 |
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| UPDATE: I went through and changed the links so that they now lead to Podbean, which is... |
| September 02, 2007 |
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| I don’t know what’s up with First-Of-The-Month Quotes. I really don’t. I used to consider myself lucky if I ended up ... |
| September 01, 2007 |
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| Okay, so I see we’ve all made it to September. Good job, team. September’s not my favorite month of the year by any m... |
| September 01, 2007 |
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| Death just breathed down my neck.
Typing, listening to music, and suddenly my headphones are filled with the sound ... |
| August 29, 2007 |
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| My first day of class was on Monday. It was not, by any stretch of the imagination, what you would call successful. I... |
| August 29, 2007 |
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| I’ve been kicking around the idea of some sort of Strangelands audio version for a while now, but I wasn’t really sure ... |
| August 27, 2007 |
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| I started writing this post on Thursday night. After finishing my drink, I was even more exhausted than when I started ... |
| August 25, 2007 |
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| My muse is still off somewhere, maybe on vacation; or maybe giving unprotected blowjobs in a dark alley for twenty buck... |
| August 23, 2007 |
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| Carey once told us a story from when she was wor... |
| August 22, 2007 |
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| I’m sitting on the couch. She’s sitting in the chair on the other side of the living room. That’s how it goes, I gues... |
| August 20, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| Most of you know that I hate Sunday evenings. For those of you who don’t: I hate Sunday evenings. I also real... |
| August 19, 2007 |
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| Life has seriously been getting in the way of things, as far as writing goes. Nothing important enough to talk about, ... |
| August 18, 2007 |
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| “I don’t think I’m going to be able to be a robot ninja monkey like I had planned.”
“…What? Are we talking about Hal... |
| August 15, 2007 |
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| Brothers at the drive-thru,
Brothers in arms,
Everyone wants gum and a smile;
Dried out wit, brittle and tasteless.
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| August 12, 2007 |
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| Disclaimer: I wrote this story a while back and then lost it. It should in no way b... |
| August 12, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| You may have noticed that my posting has waned over the past few days. The reason for this is because I’ve been out fi... |
| August 11, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| Been a while,
Been a while,
I hate to fail,
But I feel that I must.
You know where I live,
You know where I l... |
| August 09, 2007 |
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| I handed her a cup of coffee, pitch-black and strong enough to wake the dead. As she reached out for it, her baggy t-s... |
| August 06, 2007 |
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| So it’s been sort of a strange weekend. Not good in a weird way, and not weird in a good way. Just…bleh. I went to b... |
| August 05, 2007 |
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| I’m not sure if I find writing cathartic, or if it’s the drinking that I do while I’m writing that helps so much... |
| August 03, 2007 |
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| I don’t really have much to say about this month’s First-Of-The-Month Quotes. Some are dark, some are funny, some are ... |
| August 01, 2007 |
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| August. Oh, August. How I hate this month. I can’t think of one thing good about it. Oh, wait—I think Trey’s birthd... |
| August 01, 2007 |
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| Note From Ray: I could have sworn I posted this a long time ago. I think what happen... |
| July 30, 2007 |
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| July 29, 2007 |
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| “Hey, wait, pull over here!”
“What? Why?”
“I need some aspirin. Or beer. Both. Pull over here.” He jerked the ... |
| July 28, 2007 |
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| I woke to frantic pounding that I didn’t understand. I looked at the clock on the front of my DVD player and saw that ... |
| July 27, 2007 |
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| “Look, I’m not saying Hitler was a good guy, I’m just saying that he had some really good ideas about how to…okay, it’s... |
| July 26, 2007 |
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| The cliché thing would have been a cup of sugar—that’s always how it goes with neighbor stories, right? I didn’t need ... |
| July 25, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| Two things: 1)They stopped carrying my brand of gin at my local liquor store. It wasn’t necessarily good gin, but eve... |
| July 24, 2007 |
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| It’s the end of the weekend, which is always my least favorite part of the weekend. I pissed away the last couple of d... |
| July 23, 2007 |
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| When you wake up first thing in the morning with chewing gum in your pubic hair, there’s really no need to wonder what ... |
| July 19, 2007 |
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| Every ice cube tray in the house is empty, the water pitcher sits on the counter, bored, warm, and dry. The only bottl... |
| July 18, 2007 |
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| “On a roll this morning, saving the day; tipping my worn baseball cap to the ladies and driving a giant motorcycle into... |
| July 16, 2007 |
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| Dried lips; scratched, infected heart.
Loss.
Laughing at the mirror, crying in the shadows,
Lousy logic, stupid senti... |
| July 14, 2007 |
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| July is turning out to be quite the crap month if you’re fiending for a little Ray postin’. Sorry about that. I’m sti... |
| July 13, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| I recently went back to visit my hometown for the 4th of July, and it was kind of weird. To tell you the truth, it’s a... |
| July 09, 2007 |
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| As I’m walking out, the lady at Whataburger goes, “You have a God blessed day.” Bles-sed, two syllables, have a God bl... |
| July 08, 2007 |
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| Because I’m on vacation from June 30th until July something or other, I’m actually typing these First-Of-The-Month Quot... |
| July 01, 2007 |
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| It’s not that I don’t have anything to say about July, it’s just that because I’m such a very important person, I don’t... |
| July 01, 2007 |
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| I'm off to start my vacation, kids. I'll have your First-Of-The-Month Quotes and your intro to July posted tomorrow, bu... |
| June 30, 2007 |
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| It’s weird, you know? You live your life, you try to do the right thing, you try to do good…
And what? Like, you en... |
| June 28, 2007 |
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| I’m not a hundred percent positive, but I’m pretty sure I’m going to be all over the place tonight, jumping from subjec... |
| June 27, 2007 |
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| Usually, I try to use the weekend to get caught up on my Strangelands posting, and maybe write a few extra posts that I... |
| June 25, 2007 |
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| So I’m sitting at my desk the other day, and I hear a giggling behind me. My princess was in the living room, perusing... |
| June 22, 2007 |
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| Note from Ray: I wrote this a while back for submission to a humor site. It had to b... |
| June 21, 2007 |
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| “Tell me about the girl.” He wasn’t giving me a look, exactly, but there was something there, like he was watching to ... |
| June 18, 2007 |
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| It’s Father’s Day, Strangelanders, so make your calls, send your cards, whatever. I’ve actually been looking for a car... |
| June 17, 2007 |
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| Just for the record, I know this is a bad idea. When I wake up tomorrow, the alarm blaring in my ear, and I see that t... |
| June 15, 2007 |
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| So I’ve been trying to eat healthy lately. Not really a diet, but more of changing my eating habits thing. Part of th... |
| June 14, 2007 |
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| I recently bought this movie on Ebay. Actually it was a set of movies—nine movies on three discs, I got it for fifty-f... |
| June 12, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| I don’t want to be thrown away, but that doesn’t mean I won’t understand. Help me with my emotional baggage, and then d... |
| June 11, 2007 |
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| It’s 12:30, I’m tired and pissed off. I somehow managed to miss my window for sleep, which almost never happens. My s... |
| June 10, 2007 |
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| “Hey.”
“What?”
“I know this is silly, considering, but…”
“What?”
“I always thought there would be music.... |
| June 09, 2007 |
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| UPDATED
Dear California,
Thank you and thank you and thank you.
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| June 08, 2007 |
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| Note from Ray: I entered a flash fiction contest the other day. The guidelines said ... |
| June 07, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| I got an unusual letter in the mail yesterday. Not a letter, actually, but rather a postcard in an envelope. And not ... |
| June 06, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| I’ve been sitting here for about ten minutes, listening to old Pearl Jam songs (the only kind of Pearl Jam songs to lis... |
| June 04, 2007 |
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| I would like to tell you something, because that’s what I do around here, is tell you stuff. I just made a drink. I d... |
| June 04, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| This month marks the one year anniversary of First-Of-The-Month Quotes. Can you believe it? A year of scribbling down... |
| June 02, 2007 |
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| Ah, June. I don’t really have much to say about June, except for mine doesn’t seem to be going all that well so far. ... |
| June 01, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| Dear Gatorade,
Propel fitness water? Not a good idea. I’m not sure what you had in mind when you started out, ... |
| May 30, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| Ugh. It isn’t writer’s block, because there’s always something to write about. But everything wants to turn in... |
| May 28, 2007 |
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| If I was honest, I would admit that I don’t know what to cringe at first. As it is, I’ll boast that I had the situatio... |
| May 26, 2007 |
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| Sometimes I try new things and it works out. Other times it doesn’t. Sometimes my princess tells me, “That’s one of t... |
| May 23, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| I'm too tired to post anything real tonight, but did I tell you I got hit in the face with a box the other day?
I got... |
| May 21, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| I got around to posting some pictures of Rob’s party, if you’re the kind of person who’s interested in that sort of thi... |
| May 20, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| I’m not going to claim that I always try to be normal, but sometimes I do actually attempt it. I went to bed at a reas... |
| May 20, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| Hanging on past the right time,
Like a bumper sticker on a used car—
Let it go, move on.
Shredded credi... |
| May 19, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| So I made it back, in case you couldn’t tell. And listen: It was a hell of a time. There will be pictures, but due t... |
| May 17, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| Ah, but the return trip is never as fun, is it?
Even though I’ll be returning to my princess, and I miss her fiercely... |
| May 16, 2007 |
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| “I got a new SkilSaw.”
“Oh, yeah?”
“It’s great. It even has padding, like on athletic equipment.”
“I wrote abo... |
| May 11, 2007 |
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| So many and then some...
Printout on one piece of paper, read it, study it, this piece of paper is your mother now, y... |
| May 10, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| Low-rent fool, sipping suds of generic window cleaner, hoping against hope that this will be the time that they can’t p... |
| May 08, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| I was listening to the radio the other day at work, and the lady was doing the thirty seconds of news or whatever. I w... |
| May 07, 2007 |
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| I hate when I finally survive ‘till the weekend, and instead of getting to do anything fun, I have to spend my time rec... |
| May 06, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| I’ll be honest with you: Usually, the biggest thing going on on my desk calendar is a food stain of some kind. I’m no... |
| May 01, 2007 |
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| Ah, May! The month of…of, um…man, I don’t know. It’s been a long day, and I don’t really feel up to being clever—you ... |
| May 01, 2007 |
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| Chatter, chatter, chatter,
A shark that drowns when it
Stops swimming…
What happens when you
Stop talking?
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| April 28, 2007 |
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| I wonder if I’ll write about this. That’s my first thought as I dangle about twenty feet above the unforgiving ... |
| April 28, 2007 |
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| I go, “I missed a call.”
She goes, “Who from?”
I go, “Wasn’t it supposed to rain tonight?”
I pick up the phone,... |
| April 26, 2007 |
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| If you would have asked me this morning if I had ever written a post about the weird stuff I see while I’m driving my d... |
| April 24, 2007 |
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| If you don’t live in a city filled with dirty stinking hippies, you might not realize that today is Earth Day. There’s ... |
| April 22, 2007 |
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| “What is, ‘Madonna and eat yogurt,’ Alex?”
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| April 18, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| Sometimes I hurt for the world. As I type this, it is 11:40, Monday, April 16, 2007. And it is one of those times.... |
| April 17, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| Jeremiah Bennington cocked his head as if the silence told him something that it concealed from others. He shook his h... |
| April 16, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| A short while later, the bells over the shop door jingled again. Jeremiah Bennington looked up from his work and smile... |
| April 15, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| Wait…lost?
I remember pacing small grocery store aisles
On a Sunday evening, dreading Monday out of habit.
A... |
| April 14, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| Jeremiah Bennington looked up from his workbench when the bells above the door rang. Each one was a different size and... |
| April 14, 2007 |
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| I need a haircut, probably.
I’ve had a pretty wicked widow’s peak since I was a little kid, and as I’ve aged... |
| April 12, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| I wish I had more answers and better reception and longer battery life. I wish I had more booze and more knowledge and... |
| April 10, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| All right, so I guess it’s time for me to drop some cash on this Portly Boy book thing. I’ve been saving up to buy an ... |
| April 09, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| It’s April here in Austin, which apparently means forty degrees and ice pelting my windows all day long. I haven’t che... |
| April 08, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| “Is this what makes you happy?”
He ignores her and holds up a piece of cardboard to one of the many passers-by.
“... |
| April 06, 2007 |
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| Frantic touch and splintered harmony,
We have nothing left but our loss,
And nothing to lose
But what we have left.
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| April 06, 2007 |
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| I don’t have kids of my own, but I have my sister’s. I don’t technically have them, I suppose. Like, I don’t f... |
| April 04, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| Trey’s back, and in position to fix the kooky tag line of the front page, but he told me tonight that he likes the way ... |
| April 03, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| I’m glad it’s a new month. Not because I have anything against last month (although I do, since those bastards moved u... |
| April 02, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| I had all Saturday to come up with something good to put up on the new issue. I went to bed early most of last week, s... |
| April 01, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| Trey’s in Houston this weekend, and I have no idea what the hell I’m doing around here. Which means that of cou... |
| April 01, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| I woke up at six thirty this morning, without good reason. I wanted sleep, but my body goes, “No!”
I was up and at ‘... |
| March 31, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| “I got a line in my pocket, I’m lyin’, I got a nine in my pocket, and baby, I’m just dyin’ to cock ‘im, he’s ready for w... |
| March 28, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| I named her Stephanie Megan, and she was the most beautiful baby that has ever graced the planet, or that ever will. I... |
| March 27, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| My mom moved in with me for a while, and my wife’s parents got a hotel room at the place down the street, and they help... |
| March 27, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| I was right there with her, even though we weren’t sure if that was a good idea—I’ve never been good dealing with the s... |
| March 26, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| He just stares at me. I stare back. I’m not sure if he’s thinking about taking the money or if he’s thinking about de... |
| March 26, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| Another note from Ray: The following was cut/pasted from what was at one point... |
| March 25, 2007 |
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| Note from Ray: I wrote most of this story last night, but before I could finish it of... |
| March 21, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| It’s like a million important ideas, all crashing together, but it all sounds like laughter. With weirdness: God w... |
| March 20, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| Note from Ray: I wrote this Sunday evening, but wasn't sure if I wanted to post it be... |
| March 20, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| “What’s in Harveyville?” he asks.
I laugh. It hurts but I can’t help it. “The crossbone soulless jailhouse and Congre... |
| March 17, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| I was talking to a coworker today about my lousy truck, and how it’s a dangerous piece of shit. I was telling him abou... |
| March 17, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| I’d say “rats,” and leave it at that, but I think we all know me better than that. If you looked at the little avatar ... |
| March 17, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| It’s late. I should be in bed—work tomorrow, and Mr. Jenkins is getting sick and tired of seeing me show up to the Mon... |
| March 14, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| My princess came down with a pretty bad cold last week. She works with children, which means when she gets sick, it’s ... |
| March 12, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| I got a new CD today, and thank goodness, because sometimes you have to hide. Turn on the tunes, knock back a glass of... |
| March 08, 2007 |
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by Ray
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The thing ab... |
| March 07, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| Lost excitement and hidden adventure and withered soul—effervescent nothings skipping through the dark alleys and nesti... |
| March 03, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| I’m on a budget. For some reason, my princess has decided to turn the world into numbers. My hate for numbers is just... |
| March 02, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| I was just about to go to bed right now. It was a long lousy day, and when I got home, I saw that the maintenance men ... |
| March 02, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| An odd thing happened to me today. You know what? That’s not true. It wasn’t all that odd, and it didn’t really h... |
| February 28, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| Dropped faces and haunted places, do you ever know who you are, or why? I walk, hidden from polite society by bad brea... |
| February 26, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| I once ate an apple that tasted like summertime.
I have wiped away grime-mixed sweat that signified more than m... |
| February 24, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| Note: I wrote this story last summer. I took it down because I had entered it into a ... |
| February 22, 2007 |
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| My pizza cutter is always dirty. Rarely do I eat pizza, but when I do, I always have to hunt down my pizza cutter. Wi... |
| February 21, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| It’s three in the morning, and I’m just hanging out with my honey-sweetened cup of green tea, wondering if I’m going to... |
| February 18, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| I caught a little flak because I haven’t posted anything in a while. On one hand, that’s sort of cool, because it mean... |
| February 17, 2007 |
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| “I just realized that I can rank the females I’ve dated in order of love, and the girl that used to give me handjobs af... |
| February 13, 2007 |
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| So it’s like, what? 11:35? Doesn’t matter, really, but that’s what the clock says when I slump down onto the bed.
“... |
| February 07, 2007 |
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| So you may have noticed that underneath this post, there are a shitpile of short story posts all with the title ... |
| February 05, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| The funny thing about First-Of-The-Month quotes is that they’re not so hard to find, but they’re hard as hell to rememb... |
| February 02, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| Well kids, it’s February, which means a couple of things. It means we made it through the post-holiday recovery month ... |
| February 01, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| As the month nears the end, I get really bad at posting anything worth a shit. The way I figure it is, rarely do peopl... |
| January 31, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| Do you hurt like me, I wonder?
Do the memories burn ... |
| January 30, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| Luckily, the Evil Judge was focused on the car as it rolled away—hard not to be a little mesmerized by it, actually, wi... |
| January 28, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| For some reason, my sisters seem to be sending this little questionnaire all over the place. I generally don’t h... |
| January 27, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| In case you’re wondering why the only thing I’ve been posting over the last few days is short drunken nonsenses, odd bit... |
| January 24, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| Why? ‘Cause I’m drunk and losing.
When you think of a smile, does it matter who it belongs to? How many lost m... |
| January 22, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| Lip service,
—more than one meaning—
Because she just wants to be loved,
And because I’m an asshole.
Too many ... |
| January 20, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| Something’s been bothering me for a while. I guess It’s been bugging me for about 26 or 27 years now. Here’s what it ... |
| January 19, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| Did you know that if you’re ever in Austin, Texas, and you’re up at one in the morning on a week night, and you’re bore... |
| January 16, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| So here’s the deal: I spent most of yesterday writing, working on a story that I really thought I would have finished ... |
| January 15, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| Drowsy and lunatic, I don’t know what I’m looking at, but I know it can’t be what I thought. I hear the buzzing of some... |
| January 14, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| As I type this, the clock is just rolling over to tell me that a new day has begun, and that Hate Week is over once mor... |
| January 13, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| So after days of not getting any sleep, I finally broke down and decided to schedule a doctor appointment. To be compl... |
| January 11, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| Four thirty in the morning, I’m up and freakin’ at ‘em, choking on my own defective immune system, contemplating the ra... |
| January 10, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| Looking back,
Seeing missed opportunities,
Failures,
And lost futures.
Getting old:
Youth scoffs at me
In d... |
| January 07, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| All pumped up for Hate Week, but not sure what to do? No problem! As always, you can look to the dashingly handsome w... |
| January 07, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| 12:45 a.m. January 6, 2007. Hate Week has officially begun. I celebrate by knocking back a shot of whiskey and a shot... |
| January 06, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| Terrible anticipation,
Ripping the envelope,
Knowing what’s inside,
Dreading.
A dozen lost memories,
Some hid... |
| January 04, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| I had about a million ideas for posts throughout the day, but once I actually started working on them, I realized they ... |
| January 03, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| I got a new desk calendar, what with it being a new year and all, and I gotta tell you—it’s a little strange. I had th... |
| January 02, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| According to my brand-spankin’-new desk calendar, it’s 2007. Accordin... |
| January 02, 2007 |
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by Ray
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| “Man, I will never give you shit about your allergies again.” We’re about five seconds into the conversation, and asid... |
| December 31, 2006 |
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by Ray
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| Note from Ray: I was looking through my recent Word files today and found this. I thou... |
| December 28, 2006 |
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by Ray
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| You know, I bitch and moan a lot, but I have it pretty good.
I hope you all had a good Christmas, if that’s your th... |
| December 27, 2006 |
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by Ray
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| “Give it back.”
“No.”
“Do it... |
| December 22, 2006 |
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by Ray
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| He steps into the circle and looks around. The feeling in his stomach is familiar, but it’s not something he’ll ever r... |
| December 21, 2006 |
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by Ray
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| “So what you’re telling me is that you’re a bad guy. I gave birth to a bad guy.” She opens a packet of sugar and dump... |
| December 19, 2006 |
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by Ray
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| I’m not real sure how many of you drop by this place during the weekends, but I generally post some stuff because 1) I ... |
| December 18, 2006 |
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by Ray
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| I look across the parking lot, and I can’t tell if Arnie’s alive or dead. Probably he’s alive, because I can’t imagine... |
| December 16, 2006 |
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by Ray
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| Darkening immediately, the entire night to ponder and to make mistakes. We will never remember the smiles and the kisse... |
| December 15, 2006 |
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by Ray
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| I’ve been staying up entirely too late recently. I just haven’t really been able to sleep. I’ll get in bed, get all u... |
| December 14, 2006 |
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by Ray
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| RING!...RING!...RING!...
“uuuh…hello?”
“You know what your problem is? You got no passion. You got no idea about h... |
| December 14, 2006 |
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by Ray
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| I decided to read my book today. To tell you the truth, it wasn’t really something I was looking forward to, and I was... |
| December 13, 2006 |
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by Ray
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| I was talking to Trey a while back, and we were discussing this website. “You know, I was thinking about it,” he said,... |
| December 12, 2006 |
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