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I thought this was pretty funny in, but it might be funnier out.
as far as the amount of spread, my personal opinion is that asshole ibankers and/or brits spread it too much, but that middle america spreads it too little

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The opening lines of a song I listened to on the train today:
I don’t miss where I came from
But each night I dream about being back home
When I wake up in the morning
I’m too tired, tired of being alone

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On the formulation of dreams:
first, we put in some random thoughts
then we add a little bit of reminiscences of the day
mixed with some memories from the past (that’s for two people)
love, friendships, relationships, and all those ships
together with songs you heard through the day, things you saw, and
also some personal…
From the opening scene of The [...]

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I like walking around, but Shanghai, at least where I was walking today, isn’t really suited to walking. Of cities I’ve enjoyed walking around before, I’d definitely put Boston and New York toward the top. I didn’t spend enough time in DC to walk around much, but it seemed more suited to a [...]

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I wasn’t really watching, just sitting in the room while somebody else was. I was not terribly impressed by what I did see.
One quote that I caught:
a: Do you ever want to go back?b: To Oxford? I’m not not clever enough. I’m not anything enough, really.

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I’ve been quoted, in French.
Clementine Gallot, a journalism student in NYC corresponded with me via email a little while ago, and this appears to be the article written about some foie gras business in NYC that it was all about.
The specific quote is
Russell Stadler, ancien étudiant de l’Université de Chicago, les soutient: « Je pense [...]

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I was listening to Snow Patrol’s Final Straw on the train home today. It brought back a bunch of memories from school as I was listening.
I first heard of them because I saw a quote of one of their songs in somebody else’s AIM profile, or maybe it was an away message, I don’t [...]

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I told him I was worried about getting a haircut because I won’t be able to effectively communicate with the cutter.
me: What’s going to happen, in my imagined scenario at least, is I’m going to go in, and make clear I want a haircut, and that’ll be ok, then I’ll get sit down, and then [...]

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From “A Bigger Bang“, in Guardian Unlimited:
It struck me that everybody on the net is sitting alone at a computer screen, and many of them are wishing they weren’t alone, while also, often, in some deep way, preferring that they are alone and being nervous of the alternative. Sit someone at a computer screen and [...]

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I am a big fan of the show [tag]Weeds[/tag].
Just now I rewatched the season finale of the second season, and I’m still sitting here thinking “Wow, what crazy shit. I don’t want to wait until next Summer!” But, this is unfortunately how it is, and so I shall wait.
Anyhow, [...]

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