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I went to Broadway in Seattle today.

Broadway used to be cool. It used to be like Hawthorne in Portland.

Now it completely sucks. I knew it had been going south for a while, but today's visit sealed it.

The Broadway market Mall is now a QFC with a couple of stores glommed onto it.

the old QFc is now an empty building.

The (practically...
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Visiting SG on dialup is fairly nonsensical.

Visiting family for Thanksgiving should have standards: dinner, but only at the homes of relatives who have broadband.

What a spoilt brat I am.

And to that I answer 'yes'.

For tomorrow: how to do something interesting without encountering the 1.3 billion people who will be attempting to access every road, store, parking lot and bodily orifice in...
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as if every fraction of a second of a sneeze were degrees of enlightenment, self discovery, joy-

when you are about to sneeze and then don't is so much more torture.

the sedated monkey can't remember if he locked himself in the cage, if the cage is real, if he's awake or dreaming- if he's supposed to be worrying about getting out of the cage,...
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now leaving,

next stop:

the moon.


There are still some seats left.

Looking out the window this morning- a woman was walking by on her way home from the store- plastic sack of various and assorted dangling from one arm, cell phone in face with the other.

From my window I looked.

Her world was a bag of food and a plastic novelty.

Does my world include her?

If I sat there all day and nobody saw...
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