July 2011
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Jul 31st
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Saxual Helium
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about learning to play the saxophone, just so I can lay down the kind of smooth-ass solos you hear in the fade-outs of songs like Lou Reed’s “Walk On The Wild Side” (the progenitor of the smooth sax outro solo in American pop music, in my view), Springsteen’s “Dancing In The Dark” (maybe not quite relevant here, since...
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Jul 28th
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Reblog this if you're from Texas.
sincerelyrichard: I need more fellow Texans in my life here on Tumblr.
Jul 28th
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Most hyperbolic album title on my iPod
Definitive All-Time Greatest Hits by John Denver
Jul 27th
Jul 26th
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Milab Strauss
That name came to me in a dream last night, in which I saw The Tree Of Life a third time and discovered it was actually directed by this Milab Strauss character.
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Jul 25th
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Jul 25th
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“I believe God made some valid points about my... →
Jul 22nd
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Maybe my two least favorite words in pop culture...
“Zombie apocalypse.” No one thought it was cool back then, no one thinks it’s cool now. 
Jul 22nd
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Jul 21st
Jul 20th
I heard that!
“i love this watertpark because there’s alot of mexican’s” - a Yahoo! Travel Contributor, 3/3/11
Jul 20th
I just laughed at a woman who got off the elevator and said “Hey Jude” - as in actually saying hello to someone named Jude - only to be met with blank stares and silence from everyone else in the elevator. Come on, people! That’s a little funny!
Jul 20th
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Jul 19th
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Songs I have listened to roughly 15-20 times in a...
Robyn - Call Your Girlfriend Chumbawamba - Tubthumping Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Perpetuum Mobile more to come, I’m sure
Jul 19th
Jul 16th
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My dad's favorite joke circa 1994:
Dr. Quinn, Mexican Woman.
Jul 15th
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Jul 15th
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ListenI’ll admit, until yesterday I thought Real...
Jul 13th
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Taco Tuesday and the chill of death
Tonight, for the first time in my life, I could not finish the taco plate at Rosa’s. I don’t even recognize myself anymore. 
Jul 13th
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Jul 11th
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Jul 10th
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Jul 10th
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Jul 10th
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Jul 10th
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Jul 10th
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Jul 10th
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“Film comedy’s answer to Uncle Kracker.”  - Glenn Kenny, my favorite film critic, gettin real about Kevin James
Jul 8th
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Jul 6th
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Just had a sudden memory of being in a grocery store in Tomball, TX, with my mother, after seeing the movie Tom And Huck and being really giddy, hanging onto the side of the cart and jumping around in the aisles. 
Jul 5th
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Currently working on a Groupon for an Endangered Wolf Center in Missouri whose sales record contains some of the greatest sentences I have ever read. Such as: “Throw back your head and howl “Ah-WOOOOOOOO!” Do it again. “Ah-WOOOOOOOO!” Doesn’t that feel great?” and: “If you’re lucky, the wolves and pups will howl right back, ghostly laughter...
Jul 5th
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Jul 1st
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Jul 1st
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