12 May 2004, 16:32 p.m.

Again, Free Bagels

Today my seat neighbor during the KQED pledge drive professed to have gone to school with one R. Kelly (some singer). He also flirted with women who called to pledge their support. Well, that's one …

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11 May 2004, 20:05 p.m.

Silly Word Munging

Will update Spam As Folk Art with reader submissions soon, really. Today I can't even compliment myself with the epithet of hack. Maybe tomorrow.

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11 May 2004, 11:54 a.m.

Probably No Connection

Over the past three days, I met The Poor Man and The Claw, and got a free "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer" mug as a "thanks for taking pledge calls" raffle prize from KQED. Also, …

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10 May 2004, 16:36 p.m.

Atari Bihari Vajpayee

A little joke. Anyway, Slate covers India's elections so I don't have to watch Namaste America and blink through the Hindi.

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09 May 2004, 9:03 a.m.

The Apple Cobbler's Children

My mother taught me frugality in buying shoes -- twenty dollars per pair, tops. However, yesterday I paid fifty dollars for a pair of black flats (work/comedy shoes). I required more than one reassurance from …

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09 May 2004, 8:26 a.m.

You're Not Scottish, Stop Macking On Me

Friday and Saturday had comedy stuff. Evidently people do not know who Robert Rubin is. Also, evidently there are unfunny male comics who will awkwardly try to pick up any given non-white-haired woman, regardless of …

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07 May 2004, 8:33 a.m.

I Be Walkin' Down The Street (to the Marsh's Mock Cafe)

I'm doing stand-up again. SAGE, a nice-sounding UC Berkeley mentorship program, asked me to do a $50/head fundraiser on the 26th, so between now and then I'm hitting area open mics (info may be out-of-date). …

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06 May 2004, 10:47 a.m.

Now I Have Seen Norm Howard

This morning I volunteered to take pledge calls for KQED-FM. Let me say that when you ask for public radio listeners who are willing to come into the Mission District at 6:30am to take pledge …

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05 May 2004, 16:56 p.m.

How Do Dead Godzillas Stomp?

Preparing for a trip to Japan? "After your bath put on your "yukata" robe which you can wear throughout the ryokan. Put it on left-over-right (unless you are dead)." "DO NOT PLACE YOUR CHOPSICKS STRAIGHT …

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05 May 2004, 9:12 a.m.

Hoji-Cha

Drinking "hoji-cha," a toasted green tea that a coworker gave me. The tea smells like some interesting intermediate of black and green tea, and he wasn't lying about the fuller flavor. I can really taste …

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