tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76978912024-03-13T13:47:09.198-05:00Away MessagesEmpTygerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15170320964272242561noreply@blogger.comBlogger2245125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7697891.post-15711081425252442222011-11-21T00:00:00.001-06:002011-11-21T00:44:05.029-06:00<span style="font-family: times new roman;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“A
classic is a book that one cannot read for the first time.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The swift-footed route ends in Homerathon; but that’s just
the first book of <a href="http://www.courttheatre.org/season/show/an_iliad/"><span style="color: blue;">An
Iliad</span></a>.</span></div>
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</div>EmpTygerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15170320964272242561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7697891.post-83165189944044735172011-11-20T00:00:00.000-06:002011-11-20T03:17:02.304-06:00<span style="font-family: times new roman;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Feeling warm, inside.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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</span>EmpTygerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15170320964272242561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7697891.post-216276115232006812011-11-19T00:00:00.002-06:002011-11-20T03:17:58.816-06:00<span style="font-family: times new roman;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRPOztxXWlQ"><span style="color: blue;">Happiness</span></a>
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=WWyI-58gpic"><span style="color: blue;">is
a</span></a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxIOUJ7by6U&feature=related"><span style="color: blue;">multisensory</span></a>
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiyPRqP5glY&feature=relmfu"><span style="color: blue;">expression</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“...Just
dance, gonna be okay...”</span></i></div>
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</div>EmpTygerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15170320964272242561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7697891.post-60360654021199765752011-11-18T00:00:00.000-06:002011-11-20T03:16:07.636-06:00<span style="font-family: times new roman;">
N<span style="color: black;">ews Feed : “on Washington Post
Social Media” :: Fortune Cookies : “in bed”</span></span>EmpTygerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15170320964272242561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7697891.post-25548916851614967232011-11-17T00:00:00.001-06:002011-11-17T00:57:09.964-06:00<span style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">The
extension fairy left a quarter under my pillow. (Q1)</span></span>EmpTygerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15170320964272242561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7697891.post-65371186776620088862011-11-16T00:00:00.000-06:002011-11-17T00:56:06.001-06:00<span style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">The
gyroscopic cycle between culture and counter will ultimately, like washing
machine and dryer, end in nihilism. Not all breaks are clean.</span></span>EmpTygerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15170320964272242561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7697891.post-45258074927801236852011-11-15T00:00:00.000-06:002011-11-17T00:55:05.275-06:00<span style="font-family: times new roman;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Wordplay is my trashtalk.</span></span>EmpTygerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15170320964272242561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7697891.post-5259677655942376482011-11-14T00:00:00.000-06:002011-11-17T00:54:38.610-06:00<span style="font-family: times new roman;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1124035/"><span style="color: blue;">Ides of March</span></a>
suffers from telling a famillar story oversimply.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While unfamiliar with the Howard Dean-based source
“Farragut North”, the Shakespearean parallels are intriguing enough, for their
divergences.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Brutus does not suffer any
nobility in betraying Caesar; Cassius no conspirator; Antony is stabbed not
spared.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Instead of tragic collapse, Rome
shuffles onward. </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Like perhaps Gosford Park, the film will be nominated and
forgotten within a year.</span></span>EmpTygerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15170320964272242561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7697891.post-62459396308964438632011-11-13T00:00:00.001-06:002011-11-17T00:57:38.042-06:00<span style="font-family: times new roman;">
</span><span style="font-family: times new roman;">Racing for cures, matching fundraising, money culled from the
taxed and extorted in order to fund efforts to provide further medical benefits
to a hypochondriacally overinsured plutocratic elite, of a society which
chooses to pour out wealth, ironically exhausting their gold in an attempt to transmute
lead into it, all in order to chase the alchemy of immortality.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For the ultimate irony is that this society is
so incompetent at economic evaluation that it fails at recognizing that it
already has found a cure for cancer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yet
instead of stopping smoking, people would rather opt to pay pounds of a
foot-stompingly presumably cure rather than a fraction of known prevention.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even when most sufferers will not even
benefit from their suffering; they will have to repurchase a presumably
discovered cure should it even be discovered.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Like the Northwest Passage, future historians will laugh at our folly.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<a href="http://unitedwithisrael.org/israel-develops-cancer-vaccine/"><span style="color: blue;">And yet,
maybe I am wrong.</span></a><o:p></o:p></div>
</span>EmpTygerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15170320964272242561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7697891.post-43259428083465677742011-11-12T00:00:00.000-06:002011-11-12T01:42:21.043-06:00<span style="font-family: times new roman;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">You
will be told if and when you are awkward; until then, put away your prism.<o:p></o:p></span></i></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Okay. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m going to make a pact
with you right now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We both need to
change our voicemails to not the automated one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Because I’ve been meaning to do it forever, and I imagine you have been
too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And I just remembered, hearing
yours, that it’s something I need to do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>So in the case that that’s your situation also, remember to change your
voicemail.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">I’m going to miss not having this in my pocket.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Why in English does it matter to distinguish between whether you’re
coming or leaving.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You know?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are languages that don’t do that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ciao, I think- oh maybe you just say that
when you’re leaving.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Aloha you say both
ways, shalom you say, you know, in greeting and in leaving.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why, in English, is it so important whether
you’re beginning a conversation or ending one?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Um.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Which leads me to wonder,
since we both are good writers but can’t really, like, believe that in
ourselves or the world, and we’re both good editors, which we kind of know- why
don’t we ever write a book, together.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Just an idea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Um.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We also have similar interests.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Um.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Anyway.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am glad you didn’t pick
up, because it means you’re asleep and I know you needed to sleep. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So I hope you are sleeping well and I will
talk to you later.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bye.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Prism
is wrong, I think. More like, awkward-colored cellophane.</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Happy makeup palindrome day because we missed the real one on
11/02/2011.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeehw</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">If I cared about twitter, I’d be using <a href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/2011/11/prweb8944255.htm"><span style="color: blue;">#notanonionarticle</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The
hashtag is the idea that you could put the title at the end of the story.</span></i></b></div>
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</div>EmpTygerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15170320964272242561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7697891.post-63813086605009838802011-11-09T00:00:00.001-06:002011-11-12T01:40:05.591-06:00<span style="font-family: times new roman;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“A
ship is safe in its harbor, but that's not what ships are for."<o:p></o:p></span></i></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Foulweather friends, guidance.</span></span><br />EmpTygerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15170320964272242561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7697891.post-65806229896656926182011-11-08T00:00:00.000-06:002011-11-12T01:39:17.753-06:00<span style="font-family: times new roman;">
In one year, too late, I fear the country unravels rather
than <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/post/time-for-young-people-to-vote/2011/11/04/gIQAMYxovM_blog.html"><span style="color: blue;">elegantly
the Gordian knot</span></a>.</span>EmpTygerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15170320964272242561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7697891.post-68059735317692291312011-11-07T00:00:00.000-06:002011-11-12T01:38:58.042-06:00<span style="font-family: times new roman;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Disappointed in Reuters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
For a</span>ny quotation at all from <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/08/us-mideast-netanyahu-sarkozy-idUSTRE7A720120111108"><span style="color: blue;">Netanyahu
in response</span></a> would have been delicious.</span></span>EmpTygerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15170320964272242561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7697891.post-47941773573149007262011-11-06T00:00:00.002-05:002011-11-12T01:38:23.263-06:00<span style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Don’t make too much light of it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Can’t stand the blinding sight.)</span></span>EmpTygerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15170320964272242561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7697891.post-18097650392772226662011-11-05T00:00:00.000-05:002011-11-12T01:37:36.608-06:00<span style="font-family: times new roman;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The plural of triceratops is hexaceratops.</span></span>EmpTygerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15170320964272242561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7697891.post-2752512174933919392011-11-04T00:00:00.000-05:002011-11-12T01:37:13.474-06:00<span style="font-family: times new roman;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://stevegobs.tumblr.com/"><span style="color: blue;">No iPad Touching.</span></a></span></span>EmpTygerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15170320964272242561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7697891.post-4334869314045971312011-11-03T00:00:00.002-05:002011-11-12T01:36:53.393-06:00<span style="font-family: times new roman;">
E<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">motional extortion: skip the kneecap, go straight for the
guilt and force it back until there's a crack.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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</span>EmpTygerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15170320964272242561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7697891.post-43547058650707547302011-11-02T00:00:00.000-05:002011-11-01T18:45:16.230-05:00A corresponding trope for archery away from being able to reimagine Robin Hood into current times.EmpTygerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15170320964272242561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7697891.post-5605835749815745862011-11-01T00:00:00.000-05:002011-11-01T18:49:11.675-05:00<span style="font-family: times new roman;">Tie Tuesdays.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman;"><em>"Cool, where do you go? There's a place on Waukeegan that's good."<br />I've just gathered mine from all over. A couple leftovers my father didn't want, that kind of thing.<br /><mutual confusion><br />We're not talking about the same thing, are we.<br />"Even watching you put on a tie, I assumed you were talking about Thai food."</em></span>EmpTygerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15170320964272242561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7697891.post-22808034253186821902011-10-31T00:00:00.000-05:002011-10-31T10:44:41.298-05:00<span style="font-family: times new roman;">Burning bright in dark places. Next year will be better, if not <a href="http://www.halloween.com/halloween-costume-quick-ideas.php">worse</a>.</span>EmpTygerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15170320964272242561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7697891.post-91542597262862326412011-10-30T00:00:00.001-05:002011-10-31T11:32:55.678-05:00<span style="font-family: times new roman;">Singled in the <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/style-invitational-week-943-ask-backwards--a-jokey-jeopardy-plus-movie-mashups/2011/10/24/gIQA5lohMM_story.html">SI</a>! And having been a while since undeservedly overlookeds:<br /><br /><em>"301 Dalmatians": What's black and white, and red all over.</em><br /><em>"Titanic and Norah's Infinite Playlist": And the band played on.</em><br /><em>"Cloverfield of Dreams": If you build it, he will come destroy the New York Yankees.</em><br /><em>"Peter Pan's Labyrinth": How the Boys got Lost.</em><br /><em>"Extremely Loud and Incredibly Closer": Four self-destructive lovers blame all of their problems on 9/11.</em><br /><em>"Thank You for Smoking Kong": The biggest lie ever told.</em><br /><em>"Pink Floyd--The Wall-E": A cute robot breaks down humanity's drug-induced hallucinations.</em></span>EmpTygerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15170320964272242561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7697891.post-36203170414742911322011-10-29T00:00:00.001-05:002011-10-31T10:40:35.035-05:00<span style="font-family: times new roman;"> <em>How much of Dad yelling at the cable customer support do you think is because he thinks the phone rep is responsible, and how much do you think is because it makes Dad feel better to yell?</em><br />
<br />
Beaten to the punch.</span>EmpTygerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15170320964272242561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7697891.post-30479375210137031512011-10-28T00:00:00.000-05:002011-10-28T03:17:04.063-05:00<em>“Some will win, some will lose...”
</em><br />
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There are 162 games in a baseball season. 5 in a division championship, 7 for the league.
9 innings in a game, 3 outs in an inning. Among all of which the ultimate outcome is weighted.
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<em>“...It goes on and on and on and on...”</em><br />
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Resilience is a virtue, that ability to hold on until fortunes, as quickly as they might have succumbed, are righted.
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<em>“...People / Living just to find emotion / Hiding somewhere in the night...”
</em><br />
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Game 7, 7:05p. <br />
Go Cards.
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<br />
<em>“...Don't stop believing...”</em>EmpTygerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15170320964272242561noreply@blogger.com