Spitball Army

Aiming to fill a hole in my filmic vocabulary, and to be on a more level standing with my Auteurs cohorts, I rented Stalker.

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The clickety-clack of the rear claws of one of my cats running down the hallway into the bedroom to find the source of the thud…

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Tom & John’s house at Christmas

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A home-owner using a blowtorch to melt ice on his back porch accidentally set fire to his North End triple-decker Monday, officials said.

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Kevin & Melissa’s house at Christmas

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One bittersweet discovery was a cardboard box of cassette tapes that must have been in the trunk of my car at one time. There was a Sting mix tape without even one Police song (huh!?!) and a Fats Waller mix tape (hooray for Fats!!), and four really mixed-up mix tapes titled “Fred FM,” volumes 1, 2, 4 and 6.

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During an overhaul of the basement this past weekend, I found a lot of junk. Most of it had been there for so long that it was irreparably damaged by moisture – moisture in the air, primarily, though there was some ground water damage on a few things. The majority of this stuff made its way into garbage bags and hit the road this morning when the trashmen made their rounds.

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4:14 p.m. CST
Election Day
4 November 2008
Birmingham, Alabama

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