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Mar 2008

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That Old MTV “Vertebrae” Commercial

Of which I completely expected to find a copy on YouTube, but about which I could find only a single internet reference at all.
Do you remember that?, where the kid is walking past the lockers in high school, and he has those big can headphones on, and all the jocks or whatever are sneering at him, [...]

Feb 2008

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Nostalgia

(an unfinished post from February 2007 that was never published:)
Very early in 2005, in deep snow, I was temping in Cleveland, long outstaying my expected tenure at Heinen’s corporate office, distributing and replacing preferred customer cards. I was becoming obsessed with foobar and listening mostly to The Mollusk and Guero. I had recently converted [...]