Part of Learning to Read

November 16, 2004
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Two blocks closer to Wilshire and work I find the most remarkable stash ‘hidden’ on top of a phone company transfer box. There’s a half-empty jar of “Goobers” (which appears to be peanut butter and jelly packaged in the same jar), the alternating ribbons of peanut butter and jelly rising up to the mid-point...

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Get the Message Way Down Deep

November 15, 2004
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Advertising messages now printed on your processed potato snack food. What next? I advise the Cereal Co to make and market “‘Licious Logo Lumps”, the sweetened cereal nuggets shaped like America’s favorite brand logos!

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Got Much Think?

November 13, 2004
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From here, a doo-dad that ranks words according to their commonality. “Got Much Think” are 100, 101, 102, respectively, in the ranking. I figure I’ve got just enough think to “produce various understandings” (625, 626, 627, (with a little license)).

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This Better Be a Hoax

September 9, 2004
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PARIS (AFP) – “A British-built robot generates its own power by gobbling flies, but it has a stinky downside — it needs human sewage as bait to catch the insects and then digest them.” Next up? An plan “to make the droid predatory, using the sewage as bait to catch the flies.” In the...

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Labor Day’s Come and Gone

September 7, 2004
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Put away your white pants and your vodka tonics.

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Twenty-one Ships Two Islands

September 4, 2004
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Twenty-one Ships Two Islands

… A Dozen or So Sailboats Anchored In The Lee Bluff Park at the foot of Redondo, looking south. 7:10 pm. (Said LMA of the startling number of container ships huddled beyond the breakwater, “It’s an invasion.”)

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