Help Support Laurenn McCubbin’s Sex Work Project On Kickstarter

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…In Which Our Author Realizes Something That Ought To Have Been Obvious Before.

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John Hughes RIP

John Hughes, director of films such as Pretty In Pink, 16 Candles, The Breakfast Club and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, has died at age 59 of a heart attack.

Thanks for teaching me how to be cool, guy.

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Helping Wolfram Alpha, pt. 1.

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Get a rope.

This made me sick to my stomach this morning (go to about 2:42 on the timeline):

In this clip, Representative Virginia Foxx (R – North Carolina) is arguing against H.R. 1913, a proposed bill that would expand the legal definition of hate crimes to include crimes based upon someone’s gender, sexual orientation, sexual identity or disability. [...]

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This is how you deal with smarmy local TV news reporters.

Via BoingBoing. This is the funniest thing I’ve seen all day. I love this woman.

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Thanks, Marty.

Early morning, April 4th
A shot rings out in the Memphis sky
Free at last, they took your life
They could not take your pride
–U2

A toast, to one of the best of us.

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Vids from the show

“Just Like Honey” (Jesus & Mary Chain cover)

“Heroin” (Velvet Underground cover)

These were the last two tracks I did. “Just Like Honey” was going to be the final song, but as you can see in the second video, an audience member asked me to do an encore.

For these, I had a random audience member named Joe [...]

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Yo-Yo Ma Shreds

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We live in the city of dreams…

Exhibit A: A column I wrote for the Las Vegas CityLife, all the way back in 2006:

Remember the months after 9/11? Imagine what would happen to this city if even a quarter of the tourists simply stopped coming one day. Las Vegas has precisely one major industry, and most of the people who work in [...]

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