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FWIW

Posted by Brendan on January 15th, 2011 filed in life, meta

I have felt GREAT since I imposed a news blackout on myself. It’s been freeing. I’d expected the blackout to be over by the time Sam went home in early January, but then I had Elvisfest, which didn’t leaveme any time to get back into the swing of the news, and then I started t [...]

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Revenge of the Van

Posted by Brendan on November 25th, 2010 filed in Philadelphia, comedy gold!, life, man-with-a-van, meta, plain pitiful, random

After completing the $5.00 repair on the van, which had shut me down on the George Washington Bridge in the middle of the 1998 post-Thanksgiving rush, my vehicle was a lot more reliable (although every once in awhile the engine had this strange way of continuing to crank a few times after I shut the [...]

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Return of the Van

Posted by Brendan on October 31st, 2010 filed in biography, life, man-with-a-van, meta

In the last post, I mentioned that the minivan would be back. Here is the second chilling tale of the van.
After making the inaugural trip to Philadelphia, and losing the muffler in the process, the van and I began our daily relationship driving back and forth to my advertising job. It was a [...]

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A Long Time Ago, I Interviewed to be a Smut Peddler

Posted by Brendan on October 29th, 2010 filed in Philadelphia, life, meta, random, writing, youtube

A NATIONAL PORN conglomerate based in Center City was raided by the FBI, the IRS and local authorities early yesterday, but federal officials remain tight-lipped about what exactly they were seeking.
The feds, carrying search warrants, descended on the corporate offices of National A-1 Advertising, on 7th Street near Chestnut, about 9 a.m., reported AVN.com, an [...]

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Deep Thought

Posted by Brendan on October 21st, 2010 filed in biography, life, meta, personal well-being, punk rock, youtube

At my friend’s bookstore this afternoon, a guy overheard me mention my birthday.
“Congrats,” he said. “My son just turned 14. Do you remember what it was like to be 14?”
“Actually, I do,” I replied. “in fact, I’m as angry now as I was then, if not angrier. And i’m angry about the same things.”

It’s [...]

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I’m 40 Now

Posted by Brendan on October 21st, 2010 filed in biography, life, meta

I was really hoping I’d find a video on youtube for this song, which I’ve been saving up for today.
There were barefoot dreams of catching outlaws
There were school dreams of catching footballs
There were young dreams of finding great romance
There were armies and I took the chance
There were avenues of glory and some deep despair
That put [...]

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6:20 Wake-Up Call

Posted by Brendan on October 13th, 2010 filed in BAH, Philadelphia, general complaining, life, mentally ill, personal well-being

AAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUGHHHHH OHGODOHGODOHGOD GET OUTTA MY HEAD, GET OUTTA MY HEAD.
“Oh Jesus-fucking-Christ,” I said, bolting upright in bed. It was 6:20 this morning, and the neighbor’s grandson was pitching one of his legendary psychotic fits. The banging on the wall suggested he was trying to dislodge whatever was in his skull through sheer force [...]

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Light Blogging this Weekend

Posted by Brendan on October 1st, 2010 filed in Rock-n-roll, family, life, meta, pop

I am in Montreal and have limited access to the intertoobs (and the keyboard is set to French, which makes apostrophes look like this: è…
and makes question marks look like this: É
Anyway, visiting with the teachers, hanging out with Sam, and hitting a bunch of shows tonight at the Montreal Pop Festival.
I love [...]

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DISGUSTING STUFF THAT MEN DO

Posted by Brendan on September 20th, 2010 filed in BAH, anger, life

I swear to God, men are conditioned to behave like animals when it comes to basic bathroom hygiene. I use that word “conditioned” deliberately, since your average men’s room is a fucking disgrace: there’s typically piss all over the floor, unflushed toilets, stalls that afford you barely a modicum of privacy. So given the [...]

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Sparrows and Hawks

Posted by Brendan on September 14th, 2010 filed in life, meta

There’s an old chinese parable by Chu’ang Tzu, a Taoist philosopher of the 4th century BC, about a gigantic fish that turns into a bird. Chu’ang Tzu is infamously difficult to read, made more complicated by stylistic conventions in which English writers incorporate Chinese terms into the text, so I’m going to offer my [...]

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