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a night out. complete debauchery. and someone had a camera.

this weekend i had to attend the Arts Ball, a black tie event held in a different grand location each year. unfortunately, this year it was held at a new fitness club. it was full of grey men with enlarged prostates and 40 something women with fake tits. i drank champagne and chatted as best i could. i also watched sin city-- i thought it...
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i'm trying to get off early to go on a stroll with my friend and his baby. but i have a 1-3 o'clock meeting. on a friday of all days. i attempted to watch Mists of Avalon (don't ask) last night. thank god angelica was saved from TNT b movies by wes anderson. poor thing, what would have happened to her otherwise. maybe wes was...
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last night i searched unsuccessfully for my old passport. i now have to do some extra something to report the old one missing. i did, however, find my lock-box key--which i already had drilled a couple of weeks ago. i'm trying to decide whether i should go to My Morning Jacket on Friday in Madison and Broadcast in Chicago on the 4th. Maybe Echo and...
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it's a been a few dull, grey, days now. i hit the usual watering hole after work and narrowly escaped a night out. instead, i watched the great gatsby (fell asleep). today is a work day. tonight i have to look for my old passport so i can finally leave the countrythis Winter. If I don't find it, it's off to palm springs-- which is...
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last night i cooked pork tenderloin, mashed potatoes, carrots, and peas. americana at its finest. then i watched napoleon dynamite for the first time so i could finally understand the annoying allusions hipsters make to it. i found it funny, but not very. poor hipsters. then later in the evening i was about to go out to an old friend's going away party--but that was...
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the weekend was full of errands. i got lost on the way to Wal-mart (had only been once before) and then nearly died once i was inside. Who knew Holmes humidifiers had so many filters? Otherwise, I finished Artaud's book on Heliogabalus, the 3rd century gender-bending pederast Roman emporer. Bizarre and diffused book, but could have some good implications for my own work. Also finished...
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i finished Daumal. it was disarmingly simple. i thought the metaphor of a mountain between heaven and earth a little flat-footed, and its execution a tad juvenile, but sometimes those small books with bold outlines are the most memorable.

There's a story that Christian Gauss, Edmund Wilson's teacher, met Oscar Wilde in Paris. The aging Wilde had pared down his library to only three books: Walter Pater's The Renaissance, Flaubert's La Tentation de Saint Antoine and Swinburne's Atalanta in Calydon.

I couldn't keep the moustache.