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They Might Be Giants, I Might Be Old

Every time I go to a general admission show I get stuck behind the Wall of Dude. The Wall of Dude is four to six guys, all about six feet tall, who stand shoulder to shoulder and do not move for the entire show. It does not matter where I am standing when the show [...]
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T Party

Back in the day, the only place one could get a concert t-shirt in Philly for a band other than Guns and Roses or Def Leppard was at a concert, or at Zipperhead, or that place in New Hope, the name of which I cannot remember. I went to lots of concerts and got lots [...]
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Mixed Thinks

I. In a yoga class a few weeks ago, a teacher read this from Krishnamurti: “Immaturity lies only in total ignorance of self. To understand yourself is the beginning of wisdom.” As a kid, I was praised for being more mature than the other kids, and while that may have been true, somehow I got my aloofness all [...]
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Old Tarts

For the past two days I have been simultaneously exuberantly happy about how things are going – my mid-thirties rock!- and slightly paranoid about some of things about which I am exuberantly happy. My mid-thirties are proving to be tarty, and while this is great fun, it also has me looking over my occasionally bare [...]
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Misbehaving Tuesday: Retail Therapy Edition

This Misbehaving Tuesday found me feeling a little off, getting kicked around by hormones and the weather. It being Tuesday and all, I decided it was time to bust out the pink wallet, which sounds provocatively euphemistic, but really: I have this little pink wallet that says, “shoe fund” on it, and while the [...]
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Sticky Situation

I have a thing about stickers. Every so often I come into possession of some stickers, usually as a gift, and I never know what to do with them. I think that bumper stickers are obnoxious; while people are entitled to express themselves by plastering evidence of their political and religious inclinations or their sense of [...]
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Heads or Tales

Earlier today Mr. Smile Hon posted this picture on Facebook: Instantly, I was reminded of a moment from high school. I was in a car with members of the calling circle, driving some one home at night. We were driving down a street of split level houses with large windows, when we passed a house with [...]
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Not To Put Too Fine A Point On It

They Might Be Giants’ Flood was one of those massively formative albums for me – silly, weird, accordion-centric, and out of the mainstream. I bought it on a bike trip to New Hope just before I turned fifteen, and twenty years later They are still my favorite band. (And I still have a massive crush [...]
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Time

In the car on the way up to Philly yesterday morning, it hit me again: there is not enough time. This has been happening a lot lately. Mortality has been hanging there; it’s an almost physical presence urging me on, to go, go, go, because there is no time to waste. It could be a big birthday [...]
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Days of Future Passed

Last night I was noodling around google analytics, and the date heading caught my attention. January 14, 2010 For just an instant, I was surprised. It looked like a date that should be in the future. So far, 2010 is proving to be a bit surreal.
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