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Given $100 at amazon, What Would Bill Buy? 2 books: “Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means”, Albert-Laszlo Barabasi Emergence: The connected lives of ants, brains, cities, and software. 6 DVDs: “The Lord of the Rings – The Two Towers (Platinum Series Special Extended Edition)” “Koyaanisqatsi” (1983) life out of … Read more

Fear and Loathing in Clear Lake

This one’s a doozie, don’t tread past the cut unless you’ve got some time to read.

Christmas night I went up to the Continental Club for the Handsomes show. It was crazy packed sold out, and understaffed. Luckily, they don’t have much material, so it was only about an hour of insane crush.

I was out till 2 a.m., had to work the next day. Slept till 8am, after hitting the snooze a few times. Stopped at the Fiesta for some lunch snacks, and the feed store for some dog food (empty bowl when I left the house).

Got in about 9:15 am. None of the doors were opened. Walked two blocks to Market Square, used the pay phone “local calls 50¢” to make a call to an 832 cell phone that was two blocks away, which is, of course, long distance, “4 minutes for a $1”. All I needed was 20 seconds.

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