January 2012
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death and gatherings
Someone dies. Someone close, someone loved. Someone who was ready to go.
How do you react? Tears? Sorrow? Immediate mourning? Relief?
I go into action. My mind does not like to process death until long after the death occurs. Instead, it gets down to business. What are the funeral arrangements? Do you need me to cook anything? My son needs a suit. And a haircut. It’s going to rain and snow...
it was the best of times, it was the worst of...
Isn’t that the way all these stories begin? What year isn’t some combination of best and worst?
2011 was stressful and trying and I played The Mountain Goats’ “This Year” (I’m gonna make it through this year if it kills me) way too many times in a meaningful way.
But I don’t want to rehash that stuff, especially since a lot of it came toward the end of...
December 2011
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You can still find me:
Facebook twitter flickr American McCarver
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explanation and farewell
Because a handful of people actually inquired as to my hiatus, to ask if I was ok or if life was ok.
The internet is a wonderful and terrible place. It is what you make of it and sometimes you can make too much of it. Especially when it comes to social interaction.
I have spent too much time focusing on my online life instead of my offline life. I have invested way too much of mine and my...
hiatus.
for a while.
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this is your brain on domino's
Just woke up from a dream in which my dog’s head fell off - she wasn’t decapitated or anything, her head just fell off - a dream which also included a lost penguin who was dressed in a baseball cap and t-shirt, a lady who was using a step ladder as a walker and punctured her foot with the bottom of the ladder, getting lost in the parking lot of my old school and coming across a lady...
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Would you like fries with that?: Hockey Hockey... →
zerovalent:
During last year’s Stanley Cup Playoffs, I may or may not have cursed the Boston Red Sox to another 86 year championship drought in a post where I officially gave up on my hopes of the Bruins winning a Stanley Cup, which they ended up doing anyway, proving that my lack of faith is actually a key to the Bruins success. After the Bruins won the Cup, I watched the supposedly...
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Rejected Engravings For the NY Mets Citi Field...
My Entire Team Sucks
Go Fuck Yourself, Fred Wilpon
In Memory of That Time David Cone Masturbated in the Bullpen
Meet the Mets, Beat the Mets
LOL 2007
(photo of a troll face)
At Least We’re Not the Marlins
Dear Dad: We Don’t Understand Your Love of the Mets, But We Support It. Mostly.
Let’s Go Yankees
We Just Come to Citifield for the Shake Shack
God, I Hate the...
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ripslich asked: the internet is helping us all become more shallow, and to see our world in one-dimension. you give depth to this whole scene, and i mean that. keep going, michele. it does make a difference.
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you know what i hate?
I hate when the “source” of a piece of art or photography that’s been reblogged 749 times is pinterest.com and when I go to to pinterest I find the piece of art right there with a link to the ORIGINAL ARTIST, said artist having not been given credit on any of the 749 reblogs.
Really, I know you guys all love pinterest (I fucking hate it, truth be told, because the original...
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it's ok to wish me a merry christmas
I was raised Catholic. We weren’t devout Catholics by any means, but we went to church and received our sacraments and said grace before dinner. My parents were mostly CAPE Catholics - they only went to church on Christmas, Ash Wednesday, Palm Sunday and Easter. Then they stopped going at all. Then I went through an atheist phase which ended at the point where I realized I’m agnostic,...
duke's dog blog: In Memoriam →
I dukethedog:
I’m sorry to report that Duke passed away tonight. He stuck with us through kidney and heart failure. He was a sweetheart, and a loyal companion. He was my best friend.
Over the last couple weeks his appetite dwindled, and Amy and I gave him his food and pills via feeding syringe. He still wanted…
RIP Duke. You belonged to all of us and we will miss your sweet face.
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squibble replied to your post: Christmas Songs I Have Outlawed In My Home
Michele got run over by a reindeer, driving from Long Island on Christmas Eve. She wanted to blame this travesty on traffic, but as for all of Tumblr, we believe.
Just gonna leave this here.
CHEESE FRIES REGRET.
Christmas Songs I Have Outlawed In My Home
Springsteen’s Santa Claus Is Coming to Town
Christmas Shoes
Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer
Feliz Navidad
Madonna’s Santa Baby
Paul McCartney’s Wonderful Christmastime
Do They Know It’s Christmas?
Dominick the Italian Christmas Donkey
Reason for Alarm: The Mind of the Beholder →
Remember that thing Geoff and I talked about oh, a year ago? It’s on.
reasonforalarm:
How we perceive a thing depends upon our emotional state - our state of mind. When our state of mind is positive, we receive new information in a positive light. The same goes not just for negative emotional states, but for a wide range of mental and psychological conditions that mix to comprise our...
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don't stop believing
When my son was about seven years old, we had the following conversation:
“Mom. Stop telling me Santa is real.” “What? Of course he’s real.” “You want me to believe that reindeer can fly and this guy can get all around the world in one night dropping presents off in ever house? WHILE CLIMBING UP AND DOWN CHIMNEYS EVEN THOUGH HE’S FAT?”...
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November 2011
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Lisa ruins everything.
My lunch plan was to get on the treadmill and listen to the Emergency Pants podcast.
I’m at the diner eating a BLT.
It’s Lisa’s fault.
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WatchBecause I’ve been so hard on the Islanders lately (especially on twitter) it gives me great pleasure to say they played a fantastic game last night and beat the Sabres for the second road win in a row (hey, if it’s more than one, it’s a streak).
But the main thing I want to say is I FUCKING TOLD YOU TO PLAY MONTOYA FROM THE START OF THE SEASON, ISLANDERS. I. TOLD. YOU. Y U NO...
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The 24 Days of Xanax
I have a lot of Christmas stories. Some of them have been published on my various other blogs already and some of them are really long but I’m going to force feed them to you anyhow because, hey, all new audience! The beauty of this is, you don’t even have to read them. I’ll just pretend like you did.
The 24 Days of Xanax
Day 24. Today is the day! Make that list of loved ones you need to buy...