December 2008
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November 2008
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The Death of Edgar Allen Poe
On October 3, 1849, Poe was found on the streets of Baltimore delirious, “in great distress, and… in need of immediate assistance”, according to the man who found him, Joseph W. Walker. He was taken to the Washington College Hospital, where he died on Sunday, October 7, 1849, at 5:00 in the morning. Poe was never coherent long enough to explain how he came to be in his dire...
I was busy in my dreams last night.
I interviewed the inventor of a new kind of salt, got my car stolen, walked on my hands across a yard, missed a history test, watched a jousting tournament, saw a girl I used to have a HUGE crush on, smoked a carton of cigarettes, played bass for KISS, joined the Two Pairs of Converse All-Stars A Year Club and sold a house.
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Oh, how I long, for the things I have,
for the burden I don’t own.
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thanks, Kelly
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I sit here at Panera, studying and drinking my half-caff (black, no sugar). I sit were I can see over the lid of my computer and watch the people come and go. It’s slow until dinner, when the place swells with high school sports teams and clutches of sweatsuited college students.
One guy has been here longer than me. He reads a newspaper and talks on his phone and sits behind his...
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This show was truly awful. They made the right choice.
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